I think it will only encourage more and more people to be pirates. I used to believe in supporting the companies who made the entertainment I enjoyed but now I feel totally betrayed.
Considering Steam and the fact they can't run a message board, I'm beginning to think H-L2 was pirated from someone with talent and a sense of timing.
When UGO says Valve spent $40 million developing H-L2, well, first considering Valve's track record and all the Kool-Aid drinkers out here, I don't see any reason to believe that number. But if it is true, most of that money probably went to hit men to silence the real people who developed H-L2 and their families.
Probably, there were too many unburied bodies back in 9/2003 so they had to delay the game.
If CBS news or Michael Moore is reading this, I have the faked documents to prove all of my wild imaginings, or, at least I will once I finish faking them.
Everytime the lambda shows up in the game, that's a clue to where the body of one of the REAL developers of H-L2 is burried.
If you map the game map onto a 3-D model of Mandlebrot set 14-b you'll see it translates to a globe of the earth and the lambdas match the sites of newly constructed buildings within the last 2 years.
BTW, I just made all this crap up but its the zeitgeist, conspiracy theories are everywhere these days.