OT: Half Life 2 stolen

Renegade · #1 October 8th, 2003, 08:28 AM

Seriously I just read where Valve reported that the source code for Half Life 2 was stolen by hackers a few days ago and that a playable Version of the game game is already being circulated on warez and hacker sites.

As a result of this Vivide has postponed the release of HL2 from this quarter to sometime late in 2004.

F-ing hacker!

narf poit chez BOOM · #2 October 8th, 2003, 08:33 AM

wait a few days to see if it's true. may be just a rumor.

se5a · #3 October 8th, 2003, 09:52 AM

found news:
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994238

source has been stolen, but not enough to put together a playable game.
also they havent delayed the relise date (yet). the major consern is that it will be easyer to make cheats, and of corse that other developers can see how HL2 is made etc.

Mephisto · #4 October 8th, 2003, 11:42 AM

The source has indeed been stolen in mid-September and Half-Life 2 was delayed to April 2004. I have a source about this but it's in German (www.heise.de, a professional IT-news-magazine). They have to re-write parts of the game, probably the authentification and CD/Steam-Key-part. It's a sad story.

Unknown_Enemy · #5 October 9th, 2003, 01:15 AM

I am getting bored big time by these over hyped games that cannot deliver due to the ridiculous amount of espectations.

narf poit chez BOOM · #6 October 8th, 2003, 09:00 PM

could you at least wait for the demo before condeming a game?