Nowhere has Valve stated that we have the final, 'to be released' version of CS:S on our PCs. They could still find bugs in the code that need updating, and of course there could be issues with the billing system or Steam that could delay things further.
This is how you get disappointed by...
Things don't always happen on time in Half-Life land.
The 'release' of CS:S might be later than next week.
Please kids, don't get ants in your pants if that happens. Lets be nice and calm and adult about this.
Who published CS on XBox?
and the other point - the reason HL2 is not available next week is that it has to be released on Steam the same day it is released in the shops, and because HL2 has been accepted as a gold master yet.
No earning much money? I think so.
BTW - WTF did having a job and doing nothing have to do with not eing a geek? All the geeks I know make a ton of money.
How can you be attracted to a photo that is just pixels on a screen?
How can you be attracted to a photo that is just dots on paper?
How can you be attracted to a painting that is just oil on canvas?
How can you be attracted to a movie that is just light reflected from a screen?
Humans are...
Halo 2 is an old game and getting older as we speak
Unreal 3 is an old game and getting older as we speak
New Zelda is an old game and getting older as we speak
GTA: San Andreas is an old game and getting older as we speak
Resident Evil 4 is an old game and getting older as we speak...
I bet there are no mirrors in the game.
Just don't look down at the water.
Do you really want to see a circle-strafing guy with a beard doing a short looping idle animation?
No, there are a bunch of games which don't use pre-caculated maps for lighting (all console games, for instance), the characters in Far Cry, BF: Vietnam and Doom 3 have normal or bump mapped characters and there are also a bunch of games where the detail on the landscape is meshes, not sprites...
I LOVE the way suddenly everyone is a 'release candidate' expert (even using the acronym RC) even though, before this one, none of you had any idea what one was.
So funny.
Anything else you kids claim to be experts in? Brain surgery? Rocket science?