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.
Actually films do miss release dates & do get pushed back & do have problems with schedules. Apocolypse Now had all kinds of trouble. The upcoming movie Timeline was pushed back twice! Conan the King was a movie, then it wasn't then it was, then it was petitioned online to have a different director & they obliged the public & put in a different director & now its not a movie anymore because Arnold went into politics. Same thing with Alien vs. Predetor, only now it is a movie & you can see a teaser if you go watch the re-release of Alien on Halloween.
Futhermore, if Valve said, we're making a huge game & in 4 years you can play the 1st 1/3 of it, people would be like WTF is that????? But Lord of the Rings did exactly that & got away with it no problem.
Now Valve plainly knew that their game would be ready by September 30th. They showed us *IN GAME* movies that worked perfectly, looked complete in every way. That game is done. Half-Life 2 is ready!! There is no problem with Half-Life 2. The game is done.
Then what's the problem? STEAM. That's the problem. Steam isn't working for a huge amount of people & Valve spent 5 years on Half-Life 2 & it was supposed to be sold over Steam. This is a really, really, big deal for Valve. They want to prove that developers don't need publishers & can keep more money for themselves. They can't exactly put Half-Life2 out on the shelves & make a new game to distribute over steam. They have to fix Steam & then they can put out the game that is ALREADY DONE!
I got one thing to say about all this. FUCK STEAM! The only good thing I'll be doing on Tuesday is watching DreamCatcher on DVD. It's not even comparable to the fun I would have been having playing Half-Life 2. FUCK STEAM!! I hope someone does a DOS attack on Valve's stupid Steam. I hope a Valve employee opens up the hard-drive for the coding of Steam & shits exploding diarreah into that fucker. STEAM IS FUCKING US OVER!
Futhermore, if Valve said, we're making a huge game & in 4 years you can play the 1st 1/3 of it, people would be like WTF is that????? But Lord of the Rings did exactly that & got away with it no problem.
Now Valve plainly knew that their game would be ready by September 30th. They showed us *IN GAME* movies that worked perfectly, looked complete in every way. That game is done. Half-Life 2 is ready!! There is no problem with Half-Life 2. The game is done.
Then what's the problem? STEAM. That's the problem. Steam isn't working for a huge amount of people & Valve spent 5 years on Half-Life 2 & it was supposed to be sold over Steam. This is a really, really, big deal for Valve. They want to prove that developers don't need publishers & can keep more money for themselves. They can't exactly put Half-Life2 out on the shelves & make a new game to distribute over steam. They have to fix Steam & then they can put out the game that is ALREADY DONE!
I got one thing to say about all this. FUCK STEAM! The only good thing I'll be doing on Tuesday is watching DreamCatcher on DVD. It's not even comparable to the fun I would have been having playing Half-Life 2. FUCK STEAM!! I hope someone does a DOS attack on Valve's stupid Steam. I hope a Valve employee opens up the hard-drive for the coding of Steam & shits exploding diarreah into that fucker. STEAM IS FUCKING US OVER!
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