Re: 182
Good point and analogy: Potter 5 was delayed due to one thing: it wasnt finished. No publisher would publish a book with chapter 12 missing and no page numbers, and game devs even have an advantage in that they can patch etc. I didnt see any of the 9 year olds queueing up for the book complaining anything like as much as the 30 year old mature people we supposedly have on these boards. Furthermore, the Potter book got leaked about a fortinght before release - an employee at the printers took some unfinished copies, a "pre release Alpha" if you like, so those that say gaming is the only industry that suffers from leaks are wrong. However, to extend the points made so far about airplane, car, aerospace etc industries and the inevitable delays with complex projects, I would suggest that delays with complex projects that involve any form of creativity are even more inevitable. Nobody bemoans authors with writers block, nobody said "Hurry up" to Monet. And, as many examples have shown, when this has happened, it's resulted in inferior products.
My point? (;P) My point is that those that whine about delays, particularly with creative things, are missing the point. If a delay means I get a better product, fine.
Time for an "IMHO."
#154, I'd hope Valve have better stuff to do than create a whole new source code just to fool some hackers ;P. I dont know what to make of the leak. It's disappointing, may make online gaming even more annoying, and, if steam were compromised to make it insecure, may make a whole world of trouble for Valve. Which would be a shame, because (again, IMHO) Steam-style publishing platforms are probably "A Good Thing(tm)."
Time will tell, it always does.
Tango