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Re: I'm honestly shocked... |
Oct 7, 2003, 23:01 |
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Ok guys, I'll try to explain it from a developper's perspective.
The code was stolen early september. Valve found out, but the code wasn't "out" yet. They contacted the FBI and tried to recover it. When the hackers started to feel the heat (or maybe they were trying to blackmail Valve, who knows?), they released it in the public. This is when Valve decided to delay.
The game was finished. The code that is out is the completed code (people have been successful in compiling it, something that they couldn't have done if it truly was 1/3 or the code) and now, the resources files (the "beta") prove the content was pretty much completed too.
They decided to delay because the code contains a lot of sensitive information, like the CD authentification and the online protocols. If they had released it, hackers would have been able to program cheats easily. And cheats on a high-profile game like this one kills the community, thus killing sales (who wants to play on servers full of cheaters?). And the CD authentification means that we would have been swamped with "serial generators". They would have lost too many sales, and that's the bottom line for any company.
For anyone to say that Valve leaked the code on purpose to generate publicity doesn't understand how many millions Valve is gonna lose because of that. I'm not sure there's gonna be a Valve in the next two years. They're gonna get sued by those that licensed some code to them that was included in the leaked code, and they're gonna lose a lot of sales. They must have invested anything between 5 and 10 millions developping the game, and they're pretty sure to never make it back in revenus. No one would do that "on purpose" just to justify a delay. Everyone expects a delay anyway.
The delay is not to rewrite the entire game. 90% of the source will stay the same. But they need to change the online communications protocols, the steam authentification, the key authentification, etc. And they need to analyse their own code to spot any security holes that possible hackers could use.
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