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Half-Life 2 Delayed

Shacknews has finally received official word that Half-Life 2 will not be making its planned release date of September 30, something a quick glance at the calendar can confirm. Here's the quote from Valve's Doug Lombardi:

The previously announced September 30th release date for Half-Life 2 is being pushed back. We are currently targeting a holiday release, but do not have a specific "in-store" date to share at this time. We will release that information as soon as we have confirmed a new date.

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42. Re: shacknews Sep 24, 2003, 02:13 Halo
 
Halo is okay for the PC, It's shiny and all, but still plays like an older game. I'm only a little bit in, so I don't have much to say. Hopefully the retail plays faster.

~Halo (...)

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41. Re: shacknews Sep 24, 2003, 02:09 MindTrigger
 
Well, that changes my plans for the fall. Anyone have a good alternative. I'm sick and god damned tired of the crap being passed off for games at the store today.

 
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40. Re: shacknews Sep 24, 2003, 02:07 Midnight
 
Oh well, I can wait. Halo will keep me suficiently entertained in the meantime.

 
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39. VBG =) Sep 24, 2003, 02:05 Rick
 
Well...look at the bright side...at least you will be able to devote the time to Halo that it deserves

-^D^

 
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38. Re: shacknews Sep 24, 2003, 01:54 Dr.Del
 
I love the shacknews forums.. here are some quality posts about this topic:


"WHY DOES GOD DO THIS TO ME?! "
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"I have felt a great disturbance in the force; as if a million voices suddenly cried out in terror."
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"FUCK YOU VALVE SOFTWARE "
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"sometimes I run, sometimes I cry. "
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"In other news , DNF has also been delayed. "
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"Valve has changed engines"

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I don't know what is more entertaining, Shacknews' commenters or Bluesnews' frederickson!


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37. Re: shacknews Sep 24, 2003, 01:52 TimothyB
 
I don't recall anything about the original HL delay, mainly because I was Mac user then, but I just saw pics of the game at the point where they decided they just weren't happy with it and overhauled the whole game. This time the game already looks great so I don't foresee a 1 year delay on this one other than a couple months at most to get it all smoothed out.

 
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36. Re: shacknews Sep 24, 2003, 01:51 Captain Beatdown
 
If I was in charge of things at Valve I would've announced this next month.

 
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35. Re: shacknews Sep 24, 2003, 01:49 pancreas
 
The Shacknews forums are always good for a quick laugh now and again. Ironically enough that's how I found out about this.

I supposed Valve just had to drop another bombshell in the wake of all the recent DOOM3 press. When all this is over somebody has to make a documentary about how one puppet was controlled by two puppet masters.
 
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34. Re: pathetic Sep 24, 2003, 01:49 Dr.Del
 
no nooo noooooo!!!!!

I am going to kill myself! my life is over! I didnt see this coming at all! jesus! I just spent $10mill upgrading my computer, I took a month off work to play the game starting Oct 1st and I had a catheter and rectal tube inserted so that I wouldnt have to leave my computer at all... WHAT AM I GOING TO DO NOW?!?! This wasn't supposed to happen! Oh my god! Ohmygod! OMG! OMG! OMG!!!


gaben@valvesoftware.com is getting some serious hate mail right about now! lol!!



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33. Re: shacknews Sep 24, 2003, 01:48 TimothyB
 
Sorry about the small site remark, I meant in the scale between fan or game news sites to offical game company sites like Sierra or Valve.

 
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32. pathetic Sep 24, 2003, 01:44 ChaosEngine
 
I don't know which is sadder, the people going "fuck you, valve! you ruined my life" or the even sadder muppets who take delight in the fact that other people wanted to play the game.

Look, Valve doesn't owe you anything. If they've pushed back the release date it's probably for a good reason. Remember HL1? It was delayed by nearly a year and was a lot better for it. Some other devs could learn from this coughENTERTHEMATRIXcough. I'd rather have the game work properly then have to pay for their beta testing coughSWGALAXIEScough.

Get over it. it'll be out when it's out.

 
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31. Re: shacknews Sep 24, 2003, 01:42 Learned Hand
 
Blue has a higher quality of whiner.

Blues' News, cultivating fine whiners since 1996!


 
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30. Re: shacknews Sep 24, 2003, 01:37 |o.O|Payback
 
Oh, and who cares what the post count will get to. I'd like to see Gabe's Inbox about now...

 
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29. No subject Sep 24, 2003, 01:36 scottr
 
Has anyone actually considered the fact that a single email to shacknews kinda seems a little weird. I mean, sure, they might be having "mail problems" *cough* but I think everyone needs to wait and see what happens before spouting off about how much it sucks.

 
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28. Re: shacknews Sep 24, 2003, 01:31 |o.O|Payback
 
shacknews.com must get a lot more traffic than bluesnews does cuz bluesnews posted this info only a short while after shacknews did, and shacknews already has over 200 posts in their forums just about the half life 2 delay.

No, there's just more whiners over there, Blue has a higher quality of whiner.

"The game ain't released until it's released."
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27. Re: Oooh this is good... Sep 24, 2003, 01:25 [AIX]Hood
 
Then 7 days till release a single e-mail to some small site

Shacknews isn't a small site...They've been around since roughly Quake 1 days if memory serves.

 
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26. Oooh this is good... Sep 24, 2003, 01:20 Mashiki Amiketo
 
PR at it's finest I wonder how long it will be before they polish it and rush it out the doors because of angry fans.

Valve to gaming public: It's a week before release, come back and talk to us in two or three months btw, FU!
 
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25. Re: No subject Sep 24, 2003, 01:06 Nuhauser
 
Hmmm, okay. What's keeping them? Are they actually all that behind in development? Did they decide to wait until they had boxed copies for the retail chains? (I was hoping for a Steam release in advance of the retail, which might have shipped to coincide with the 9800XT) Did they wake up and realize Steam needs a helluvalot more work?

edit: I cn spel

Ah well. Looks like Halo Pc might actually sell pretty well now.

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24. Re: WTG Valve! Sep 24, 2003, 01:01 TimothyB
 
Noticed how they have the words "in-store" in quotes for saying there is no release date. Is that a hint that there still might be a date that is already set for Steam around the corner?

 
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23. Re: WTG Valve! Sep 24, 2003, 00:56 Cartman
 
Yeah, it looks like Halo is the next cool FPS shooter in line to come out.

Give me Halo4PC and I can easily forget about HL2 for a couple of months.

 
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