Half-Life 2: Episode Two Delayed

Valve opens up in Leipzig on EuroGamer (thanks Petr) is an interview with Valve's Doug Lombardi about the next installment in the Half-Life 2 saga, focusing on the news that the game is not going to make it to retail until February of next year. Here's a bit that explains this disappointing news about a project what was said to be coming "shortly" when it was first discussed this past February (story):
No, it's just sort of classic Valve being overly aggressive on our dates. But we're aiming for Q1 right now and we're really far along in the playtest stage. You know, our thing is always that we're trying to make really good experiences and so we're going to manage to that rather than the schedule.
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This coming from someone that has never had it installed on his PC, uses second-hand information, and hasn't followed the updates.
My knowledge of Steam is primarily from first-hand use although I certainly am aware of others' problems with it. As for updates, the fundamental problems and shortcomings of Steam have never been fixed. Any updates have only addressed minor interface and presentation bugs. Steam's bloated size, mandatory use, and its unreliability, inflexibility, and restrictiveness which prevent users from playing their games how and right when they want have never been fixed. Valve could fix those problems, but it won't because it doesn't trust its customers and wants to control when and whether its customers can play the games for which they paid.

Steam has given me a problem, once, when my internet was down and it wouldn't go into offline mode.
Well you have been fortunate then. However, just because your Dell laptop battery didn't explode doesn't mean that others' won't or haven't. Steam is fundamentally flawed because of how Valve has implemented it, and if it weren't, you wouldn't have had even that one problem that prevented you from playing the games for which you paid.

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