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[Garp]

They have it up now:

They say Lombardi confirmed it with THEM.

"September 23, 2003 - In a not-so-surprising move, Valve Software has officially, positively confirmed that Half-Life 2 will *gasp* be delayed.

Doug Lombardi, Valve Software's director of marketing, confirmed with us today that Valve has decided to delay Half-Life 2 from it's original slated September 30th release. The official word is that Valve is "targeting a holiday release." No official new release date has been announced at this point.

While we're a bit sad that we won't be playing Half-Life 2 next week, we here at IGN actually applaud the delay announcement. If Half-Life 2 truly isn't ready for release, then so be it. We would rather play a well-tested, perfected game than a buggy sequel to a title we hold in high esteem.

Of course, we'll have more info as it becomes available.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled pining."

 

[kawada]

crap.. i hope it's just crap

 

[tHEmaCHInE]

I think its a little too late for that. Its real and it sucks.

 

[trantjd]

link?

EDIT: Found it... http://pc.ign.com/articles/451/451309p1.html

 

[Guest]

Its very strange how things suddenly turned out to be !

This is not the way that Fans should be treated !

 

[FriScho]

I think this is the last big example, that they should not give a release date at all. id Software invented the "when it's done". Screwed this politics for Doom3 and told everyone 2003 at E3. Now they pushed to 2004. Valve couldn't give a correct release date after 5 years of developement and until 1 week prior to release. If there is one thing the software developer should have learned:

DO NOT GIVE A RELEASE DATE, EVEN A RELEASE YEAR, IF YOU ARE NOT 100% SURE. ALL YOU DO IS TO DISSAPPOINT YOUR LOYAL FANS AND EVEN TURN THEM AGAINST YOU.

 

[Baggins]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it the same with Hitman 2 last year? They had everything set for a March release, but one week before release they pushed it back to september. IIRC they even gave a "Gone gold" press release for it...

 

[rec]

They've posted the same info every other site has. Just because they post it doesn't make it anymore fake or any more confirmed than it was five minutes ago.

Locked.