A post to the HL2 World
Forums reproduced on their front page
offers an email reply reportedly from Gabe Newell with the status of Half-Life 2
(thanks Marcoux and Voodoo
Extreme), offering some crunch time math:
Right now we are looking at
our bug numbers. Each day you fix some bugs and you find some new bugs. The net
number tells you how quickly you will get to zero.
At our current rate of find/fix bugs, we'll be down to zero bugs in 16
days.
In about 14 days, Valve will announce that some hackers have stolen their bug list, thus setting the title back another 8-10 months. And that's just to recreate the bug list.