Nothing more than a handy excuse to avoid the wrath of the rabid fanboys and looking bad in the gaming press
Well that sure worked! They look like freaking knights in shining armor now. Oh, hold it... no... they look like utter dumbasses because their network security could've been improved by using a $40 Linksys router.
Feels good to be proven right after months of being called a conspiracy nut on this board.
No. You're still a conspiracy nut. The issue wasn't over what caused the code delay, it was over whether or not there was a "code theft" in the first place. You seem to believe that there wasn't and that Valve created a cover story (c.f. -
http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/board.pl?action=viewthread&threadid=46885&id=145898&boardid=1&view=threads) and that's patently insane.
I agree that Valve should've been more forthcoming on the fact that the game was nowhere near done, and that they were blowing smoke up our collective ass about the release date. But that doesn't mean you're not a conspiracy nut.