Actually, not a bad idea. Maybe not ban people from the servers permanently, though.
It could work like this: when you start Steam, it checks the "cheat database". If it detects a known cheat on your system, it restricts you from using Internet multiplayer. You could play the single...
Good. IMO Valve developed the game with their own funding, they struck a deal with Vivendi to put the game in stores in shiny boxes. They're doing Vivendi a FAVOR. "Hey, if you guys burn about a bazillion copies of this disc, put it in boxes and distribute it, you can have a cut of the...
The VU and NBC/General Electric merger did not include the games division, though it is up for sale. FYI, NBC has the controlling share, ownership is split 80/20.
I guess the initial asking price for VU Games was 2 billion dollars US. No one bit, so they've lowered it to around 800 million...
The source code was STOLEN from Valve. Anything derived from it (i.e. "The Beta") is also STOLEN.
Valve is well within their legal rights to pursue/shut down people distributing or possessing their STOLEN PROPERTY.
You possess Valve's (or the RIAA's, or Adobe's, or Microsoft's, etc)...
Best Buy.com is still showing that HL2 pre-orders will ship between 11/3 and 11/12.
Not that it's "official" by any stretch, I do find it odd that they haven't changed the date yet.
After reading several posts pointing out how the build compiled from the stolen code, or the "beta" has incomplete maps/models/etc. I now think that what is out there now cannot possibly be all that Valve has, and I'm hoping that Valve's plan and silence is because they still plan to make a...
I have a related request.
Quit calling this "beta" a "Pre-Release". IT WAS STOLEN! RIPPED OFF! NET-JACKED!
It's exactly as if someone had picked the lock to Valve's front door and burned it to a CD-R.
Call it "Halfass 2", "Stolen beta version", whatever. "Pre-release" (to me)...
Riiight.
Because a hacked beta with fanboy made Worldcraft maps, missing enemy AI, models and textures is going to be way better than the real HL2.
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I gotta wonder if its the source code being stolen that really effed all this up.
September 30 was the only release date that anyone from Valve would confirm.
They released the Bink! videos via Steam to get everyone worked up anticipating the release in the middle of September. If they...
I think Gator hired them so they could put that frigging stupid GAIN spyware in with HL2.
I just spent like an hour trying to get rid of that stupid crap. Apparently it installs with the latest DivX.
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EDIT- Kidding. Just in case anyone reads the above and thinks I really...