"Going gold..." Confirmed as a fake

[Icarus]

This morning it was confirmed that the post made concerning Half-Life 2 going gold, orginally thought to be made by Valve's Gabe Newell, was in fact posted by someone that had found his password and used it to post with his account.[br]A Valve employee confirmed it in this thread on the SteamPowered forums.

 

[SaL]

pathetic that someone would hack into Gabe's account to deliver false info....absolutely pathetic

 

[Harryz]

What will be the next **** up?

"Valve accidently deletes Half-Life 2 from all drives."

 

[GungSeng]

Grrr! Someone is gonna get dead!

Whos that guys who posted that Gold thingy?

 

[The Mullinator]

Oh well, I hope whoever did it is happy to go back to masturbation and lonely nights infront of the computer to keep them happy.

Anyone with a brain that drives them to do things like that will usually never make it anywhere in life.

 

[Democritus]

Chris B's comments aren't fair. Valve has annouced EVERYTHING about HL2 on forums of late. Last year , Gabe was sending emails to random news sites to announce things. Geez. USE THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE, LUKE!!!!

 

[Reaperman]

GOD DAMN IT! GOOD MOTHER****ING DSAMN IT!

:-( i want to die now, i was so happy....

 

[ManiacB]

It's a pity there are those people who ruin everything for everyone else.

I would like to thank that smart*ss who published that fake message a lot. THANK YOU!
ARE YOU HAPPY NOW?
GOT THE ATTENTION YOU SO NEEDED?

 

[GuNzABlaZiN]

Hunt the bastard down...then skin him alive. I really had my hopes up, didn't think that something like that could have happened. Now hl2fallout.com forums are no longer credible, so now it's gonna take longer to confirm things.

 

[himself]

/me sighs

you guys are just as sad as the dude who actually faked that post. think about it..

 

[GuNzABlaZiN]

/me sighs

you guys are just as sad as the dude who actually faked that post. think about it..

Hey, we aren't the ones that get a kick out of people posting sad and angry comments on the internet, think about it.

 

[Homie]

ahahhahaha hes busted cause when he logged in it counted his ip and added it to the account or whatever so they will find him if not i would be suprised

 

[staddydaddy]

Am I the only one that thought that this is funny??

I mean come on guys, It's not the end of the world

 

[GuNzABlaZiN]

Am I the only one that thought that this is funny??

I mean come on guys, It's not the end of the world

You weren't here early in the morning, were you?

 

[The Mullinator]

ahahhahaha hes busted cause when he logged in it counted his ip and added it to the account or whatever so they will find him if not i would be suprised

He was using a proxy server which means he could be anywhere in the world. Unless that IP address can be matched to someone elses account there is no way of finding him.

/me admits he is an internet n00b so don't hold him to anything.

 

[A True Canadian]

Speechless. I'm absolutely speechless.

Oh well, live and learn.

 

[Iced Sun]

Just point me in any direction our hacking friend might be in and I'll just take this here nice chainsaw...

 

[Gorgon]

He was using a proxy server which means he could be anywhere in the world. Unless that IP address can be matched to someone elses account there is no way of finding him.

/me admits he is an internet n00b so don't hold him to anything.

OR you can use a program called serve anonymously which gives you 100s of IPs to use at once.

 

[Cunni]

Probably one of the myg.ot wannabes trying to impress the real g0ts. Gotta admit, they have raged a lot of people, including myself. Their forums are down, so I can't check to see if this is true. Just my speculation.

 

[Ghost Freeman]

I'm going to buy another game now. Later.

 

[Heavy P]

Probably one of the myg.ot wannabes trying to impress the real g0ts. Gotta admit, they have raged a lot of people, including myself. Their forums are down, so I can't check to see if this is true. Just my speculation.

If you're right, it's a good speculation then!

Oh, well. I don't take this that bad... VALVe might still make it?

 

[Mr. Redundant]

I'm going to buy another game now. Later.

thats the problem, theres nothing worth buying..... HL2 is basically the PC's last hope this year.

 

[Adrien C]

Damn, I was patient, but this made me lost it again...

 

[lans]

thats the problem, theres nothing worth buying..... HL2 is basically the PC's last hope this year.

Indeed.

I have played every good game that is currently available on xbox, and Doom 3 DM has become boring as hell. I need a new game - Damnit! ;(

 

[Mountain Man]

pathetic that someone would hack into Gabe's account to deliver false info....absolutely pathetic

His account wasn't hacked. He apparently used a really easy to guess password (i.e. his usename). Or so I'm told.

 

[crazed]

I *HEARD* the password he used was "gaben".

But then again, after the whole source code theft, you'd think he'd be litte more careful security-wise.


Oh well, I didn't believe it was going Gold anyway, so this isn't much of a let-down.

 

[tsigo]

pathetic that someone would hack into Gabe's account to deliver false info....absolutely pathetic

What's pathetic is that they don't seem to have learned any lesson about security after the source code leak.

 

[Trinityxero]

i dont think the acount got hacked... i think the post was just a FAKE... pre-load? near release evreyings going crazY? this was the last straw im guna go get something else...

 

[Prince of China]

Hmm... Maybe something like this will happen:
Monday Aug.30th.

Half-Life 2 has gone gold! Remember when we said the gold post was fake? We lied!


-Gabe Newell

 

[Mr. Redundant]

Hmm... Maybe something like this will happen:
Monday Aug.30th.

Half-Life 2 has gone gold! Remember when we said the gold post was fake? We lied!


-Gabe Newell

very doubtful, but heres to wishful thinking.
once again, Im hoping they make it this year, let alone next month :/

so heres a pic I made quickly (note its not a personal attack on anyone, especially anyone at valve.. I was merely poking fun because the picture looked funny)
it might explain something

 

[sundan]

http://www.totalwar.com/ Amazing game, looking forward to it more then HL2, out before HL2 too, check out the demo.

http://redorchestramod.gameservers.net/ Best FPS Ive played, CS is just an addiction, this is class.

Two off the top of my head, to say HL2 is your last hope is silly, stop coming here, you'll soon find other great games to check out.

 

[mcojunk]

It was too good to be treu wasn,t it

 

[poofyfinger]

preloading now!!! I GOT IN!!

 

[Asuka]

GOD DAMN IT! GOOD MOTHER****ING DSAMN IT!

:-( i want to die now, i was so happy....

Thats how I feel..

 

[DiSTuRbEd]

But then again, after the whole source code theft, you'd think he'd be litte more careful security-wise.

You do understand someone didn't get on their networks. They just were trying passwords on his account. He probably trusted people to be mature about things, and would never do such a thing like that. Its getting pretty sad when people are trying to crack other people's passwords to post bogus things on a forum.

 

[Trinityxero]

and the world trying to boot out the few good ppl we have

 

[flo_Orian]

Lol :d

 

[FoxDie]

I can't believe it ;(

 

[staddydaddy]

You weren't here early in the morning, were you?

Uhh I was online about 6 minutes after the fake announcement was made. I was hella happy that HL2 was going gold and was telling people. I still dont care all that much that it was fake.

Do you guys honestly let things this small play with your emotions so much?

 

[iamaelephant]

Wow, some of you guys are really uptight. Get over it, who cares? Personally I think it's hilarious.