Half-Life 2 for Sale? [Nov 13, 2004, 9:02 pm ET] – Share – Viewing Comments
Valve sends an explanation for why Half-Life 2 is not being activated at this
time in spite of the couple reports of it being available at retail already:
Half-Life 2 For Sale?
If you have purchased a copy of Half-Life 2, we are sorry you are still waiting to play. This is not Valve's choice. Vivendi is insisting that the game has not yet been released, and has threatened that Valve would be in violation of its contract if we activate the Half-Life 2 Steam authentication servers at this time.
Thanks for your patience and we will update you when we have more news to share.
Valve didn't have to sign any CONTRACT with V/U - or any other publisher if they wanted to sell the game via Steam...
This was a choice they made - as did they when saying last year that HL2 would be out September 30... and after pulling in as many ATI videocard sales as they could, finally admitted the game wasn't ready yet... Karma - it be a bitch...
Well, at that point they still needed / wanted a publisher. They had no idea if Steam was going to take, and if they didn't have a Publisher, they'd be screwed.
Plus, Vivendi invested in the game (gave them money), so that helped things along.
Imagine if you will, Steam barely being used or liked. Hell, A LOT of people don't want to touch it now. Deciding to do it on their own for this "experiment" without any seed money from Vivendi COULD have meant the end of Valve.
"Space. It seems to go on and on forever. But then you get to the end and a gorilla starts throwing barrels at you."
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"Space. It seems to go on and on forever. But then you get to the end and a gorilla starts throwing barrels at you."
-Fry, Futurama
-Fry, Futurama
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