Half-Life 2 Delayed [Sep 23, 2003, 11:59 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
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.
I bet this has more to do with the sudden delay than anything else. Valve probably considers the game "done" (hence their recent comments that the delay was untrue), but Vivendi is really concerned that it won't run well on the majority of systems out there.
Uh, Valve has been saying since the beginning the the minimum system requirements are a 700 MHZ CPU with a DirectX 6 (maybe 7?) video card. It won't look anywhere near as good as on a better system, but it will run at an acceptable frame rate.
But then again, with this last-minute delay, maybe Valve wasn't trustworthy about the requirements either.
Anyway, check out Planethalflife.com , they just posted a mini-editorial suggesting that the delay is just due to developmental causes (i.e. the game isn't done) rather than some outside force causing Valve to delay it. Seems reasonable.
Uh, Valve has been saying since the beginning the the minimum system requirements are a 700 MHZ CPU with a DirectX 6 (maybe 7?) video card. It won't look anywhere near as good as on a better system, but it will run at an acceptable frame rate.
But then again, with this last-minute delay, maybe Valve wasn't trustworthy about the requirements either.
Anyway, check out Planethalflife.com , they just posted a mini-editorial suggesting that the delay is just due to developmental causes (i.e. the game isn't done) rather than some outside force causing Valve to delay it. Seems reasonable.
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