Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Half-Life 2 Release Date Broken

Posted by Zonk on from the please-read-all-instructions-before-opening dept.

NextWish writes "Despite being clearly marked, numerous stores have begun selling HL2. This guy even got a phone call from EB telling him to pickup his pre-order, so he did what any one would do - He picked it up. (Pic #1 / Pic #2)" Update: 11/12 19:30 GMT by Z : Thanks to the anonymous reader who sent us a link to The Inquirer story discussing Valve's savvy regarding cracked or advance copies.

5 of 208 comments (clear)

  1. Future Slashdot headline: Sierra/Value sue EB by bergeron76 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can just see it now: Valve to sue Electronics Boutique over HL2 sales

    --
    Don't think that a small group of dedicated individuals can't change the world. It's the only thing that ever has.
  2. Seems fair by Klowner · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you're keeping score, if anyone has broken a release date, it would be Valve (3 or 4 times at least now).

  3. Re:Would it be ethical to use a crack on this? by NextWish · · Score: 3, Funny

    By the time one's out? Hell there's already three of them out!

    Half.Life.2.NOCD.CRACK-RELOADED
    Half_Life_2_Cra ck-VENGEANCE
    Half.Life.2.CRACKFIX-LuZiFeR

    The only question which remains unanswered is which one installs the best backdoor.

  4. Re:Would it be ethical to use a crack on this? by Flunitrazepam · · Score: 2, Funny

    I just wanted to respond to your post in order to finally mate our .sigs

    --
    1) Your analysis is based on bad assumptions so your result is way off. 2) You're a sick bastard for fucking a horse.
  5. Re:No Internet? by Low2000 · · Score: 3, Funny

    This was going to be a problem, but when they ran an on-line survey on current half-life players, they discoverd that 100% of their user base had an internet connection! Thank god for on-line surveys! (statistics are fun!)