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Don't worry the more they delay the game the sooner the game will be copied and hacked and put on black market and file sharing network.
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What are you talking about?Yombi said:dude...300kb/s is 30KB/s there is a difference...it took me about 1 day (not straight hours since other people use the puter) to download 1 gig. Max i normally get on steam is 200kb/s (20KB/s)
edit: it would take about 12 hours to download @ 20KB/s (if it stays @ that speed)
Where did you hear about this?SFLUFAN said:VUG already told the Gamestop managers that the game will be on the shelves by Thanksgiving. Until otherwise happens, let's just go with giving 'em the benefit of the doubt.
I must have missed it (how old was it?) Let us know if you find it :thumbs:SFLUFAN said:It was in a previous thread on this site. Give me a minute to look it up.
Thanks.SFLUFAN said:Sorry for the delay. It was someone at HL2 Fallout.com. Here is my original post:
"Over HL2Fallout, someone spoke to a Gamespot manager who was at a conference over the weekend and spoke personally to a VUG representative.
The VUG rep assured him that HL2 would be available for sale prior to Thanksgiving and that the gist of the lawsuit was that VUG wants Valve to serve out the terms of their original contract and not jump ship prior to then."
SFLUFAN said:Sorry for the delay. It was someone at HL2 Fallout.com. Here is my original post:
"Over HL2Fallout, someone spoke to a Gamespot manager who was at a conference over the weekend and spoke personally to a VUG representative.
The VUG rep assured him that HL2 would be available for sale prior to Thanksgiving and that the gist of the lawsuit was that VUG wants Valve to serve out the terms of their original contract and not jump ship prior to then."
just think how pissed off ATI would be if it was delayed for 6 months! all those cards they sold as part of the original deal would be grosly outdated!
Not all of the HL2 content is available. Even if you were able to crack all of the encryptions, you wouldn't have a playable game.Stalin223 said:I'm really supprised that someone hasn't tried to brute force the HL2 preload yet. Encryption is only good because rying all 2^128 combinations is a son of a bitch. However, there is a very easy way of cracking encryption, you just need to know what type of ecryption was used, and have some idea what kind of data a certian portion of the code uses(which is simple as **** since we have a leaked HL2 source code hidding somewhere online), and time.
You can either use a hardware based array of cheap chips that test about 4 bytes of data to see if they're 'interesting' and if they are, tell the Computer Overlord about it to it can test it further. This is what several computer experts believe the government uses to break encrypted documents in real time. It also works very nicely, and costs very little aside from R+D(maybe $15,000 if you want HL2 in a few weeks). But get some 3rd or 4th year CS/EE students interested and they'll build it for you for pizza and bawls.
The other method would be a modified Seti@Home style client-server distibuted procesing network. Give each computer a few billion RSA/DES keys and a small chunk of data to play with, then just spread them all over a computer lab or something. Hell, make a webite if VUG decides to pull another 'we'll sit on this because we're assholes'. HL2 Seti@Home running from a server in glorious Mainland Communist China, where US laws don't mean shit! It shouldn't take too long for the code to be broken, and the site can then release the game as it pleases, even charging for it.
Kinda sucks if that hapens though, since VALVe is out all the R+D costs and basically goes out of business, and VU(G) is just too huge to realy care since they have other prospects.
I'd like to see VUG's US offices get blown to shit by some irate gamer. "Games promote violence and death!" "NO, only when assholes keep them from us"
paddy3k said:yesterday i was so hyped [snip]... now.... there's no grimace which expresses my feeling
ATI4EVER! said:Wait, can someone clear this up? Valve sued VUG in 2001? why? If valve neww that this could happen why did they choose VUG as a distributer?!
Wesisapie said:business is ALL about short term gains. didnt you know that? they dont care at all about long term.
Wesisapie said:business is ALL about short term gains. didnt you know that? they dont care at all about long term.
Wesisapie said:business is ALL about short term gains. didnt you know that? they dont care at all about long term.
AmishSlayer said:They'll be throwing away lots of $$$$ if they delay it like that....and I'll be pissed.
EDIT: If things keep continuing like this...HL2 may just be blinked out of existence much like DNF. They pretend it's coming out...but it really isn't.
SFLUFAN said:Sorry for the delay. It was someone at HL2 Fallout.com. Here is my original post:
"Over HL2Fallout, someone spoke to a Gamespot manager who was at a conference over the weekend and spoke personally to a VUG representative.
The VUG rep assured him that HL2 would be available for sale prior to Thanksgiving and that the gist of the lawsuit was that VUG wants Valve to serve out the terms of their original contract and not jump ship prior to then."
Gorgon said:if that happens...........a technology called P2P will help
Feath said:Bright side: At least we know that VU can't delay it indefinately.
RhapSidious said:Yeah, but to come this close just for another delay is just plain cruel at this point.
If VU delays the game for another 6 months, that'll be a year and a half from the original September 30, 2003 date.
I just hope that they release it by Thanksgiving... Spring 2005 would be too much deja vu to handle.