Half-Life 2: Delay? Maybe, Playable? Yes [Oct 07, 2003, 4:42 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
New delay for
Half-Life sequel on BBC News (thanks Eraserhead) has a quote from Christophe
Ramboz of Vivendi Universal Games on the Half-Life 2 source code theft that
takes a completely different direction than the talk of four month delays found
in a different article (story), as they have him saying:
"Vivendi Universal Games is only the distributor of the product, which is
produced by the US studio Valve and so it will up to them to make an
announcement." Meanwhile, Thieves
steal playable version of Half-Life 2 on CNN Money contradicts reports that
downplay the amount of code stolen, choosing to reveal that the Source
source thieves "also stole enough game maps and other components to put
together a playable build of the game. Today, five days after the first leak,
they have released that build."
> Again, you don't know that. Where has Valve said that as
> a result of the theft they need 5 months to rewrite the
> game? Vivendi has said things to that effect, but not
> Valve. Besides, the game is clearly finished or very
> close.
Well, if Vivendi says it's delayed, and they're the publisher, it's delayed. Valve can't very well ship without their publisher, especially considering the sorry state of Steam at the moment.
I suppose you could assume that Vivendi made up this five month delay, and Valve wants to ship now, but what publisher in their right mind would delay shipment on one of the most eagerly anticipated games in years? Especially when the delay takes the game past the Christmas season!? Now THAT is throwing money away, and Vivendi certainly can't afford to do that these days.
And yes, I am not a game developer. I write business software for a living, but that doesn't have any bearing here. It's not like you need to write games for a living to see that they are trying to blame their delay on these hackers.
> a result of the theft they need 5 months to rewrite the
> game? Vivendi has said things to that effect, but not
> Valve. Besides, the game is clearly finished or very
> close.
Well, if Vivendi says it's delayed, and they're the publisher, it's delayed. Valve can't very well ship without their publisher, especially considering the sorry state of Steam at the moment.
I suppose you could assume that Vivendi made up this five month delay, and Valve wants to ship now, but what publisher in their right mind would delay shipment on one of the most eagerly anticipated games in years? Especially when the delay takes the game past the Christmas season!? Now THAT is throwing money away, and Vivendi certainly can't afford to do that these days.
And yes, I am not a game developer. I write business software for a living, but that doesn't have any bearing here. It's not like you need to write games for a living to see that they are trying to blame their delay on these hackers.
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