Ritual Entertainment: Hi, it’s me. We’re finished.
Gabe: No way. We’re about to go gold with HL2. You can’t be finished. Really, you’re finished?
RE: Yep, it’s finally done.
Gabe: Shit. I mean, that’s great, but if we ship these games out within a week of eachother, no one is gonna buy your game.
RE: So, what should we do?
Gabe: Well ship it! By all means, ship it out. We’ll just have to delay again. But it’s all about the bottom line right? I mean if we put out a top-seller game like HL2, we’ll lose money on CS:CZ and I don’t like losing money. I have to buy another yacht this coming year.
RE: Understood. My ’98 Dodge Neon car payment is due. I wish that thing would get hi-jacked. Anyway, WTF are we gonna do about this?
Gabe: Your neon was hacked? What are you talking about.
RE: Not hacked, hi-jacked.
Gabe; Um, I gotta go man, I just got this wild idea….
Unfortunately this story is completely wrong... Here's the truth:
Gabe: How is the CS:CZ development going?
RE: We need at least another 2-3 months to finish it...
Gabe: Release it now!
RE: Why? It's totally buggy and not all gameplay features are implemented.
Gabe: I don't care. The hackers who stole the HL2 source code also stole a fully fonctional CS:CZ version. If you don't release the game now nobody will buy it later on because everyone has played through the leaked version!
RE: F**k... ok, we release the game this week and fix it later.
Gabe: That's what I wanted to hear
This comment was edited on Oct 9, 10:54.