The delays to Half Life 2: Episode 3 are getting out of control. In order to let Gabe Newell understand how serious this is and how, we, as a responsible fanbase, will give our best efforts to try to avoid it turning into Duke Nukem Forever 2: Valve Edition, I have created the following plan. Anyone who reads this and is willing to spend the 5 or so minutes necessary to participate in this cause should do the following. Write an oath and post it on this thread in the hopes that someone at Valve will see it, preferably Gabe Newell. The oath should preferrably be written with the following template:
I (Name or pseudonym here) Solemnly swear upon (Diety, religious figure, symbol, person, item, of religious or cultural significance, personal idol, etc. etc. e.g. Jesus, Allah, Zeus, The Bible, the Flag, The Qu'ran, Bob Saget, Nyarlathotep, etc. here) that if the game entitled Half Life 2: Episode 3 is not released in it's completed form by the end of the year, 2012, that I will never buy another Valve game or product again, nor do anything that would support them or their endeavers. If I am, for any reason, to break this oath, I will (Insert creatively greusome act of self harm here). Sincerely, (Name or psuedonym here)
Here is an example, as well as my contibution:
I, Yahtzee, solemnly swear upon Nyarlathotep's left testicle, that if the game entitled Half Life 2: Episode 3 is not released in it's completed form by the end of the year, 2012, I will never buy another Valve game or product again, nor do anything that would support them or their endeavers. If I am, for any reason, to break this oath, I will travel to Africa, spray myself with Rhinoceros sex hormones, and enter into a Rhinoceros habitat WITHOUT LUBE.
Sincerely, Yahtzee
(Please note that I am not in any way related to Zero Punctuation's Yahtzee of the Escapist Magazine)
I (Name or pseudonym here) Solemnly swear upon (Diety, religious figure, symbol, person, item, of religious or cultural significance, personal idol, etc. etc. e.g. Jesus, Allah, Zeus, The Bible, the Flag, The Qu'ran, Bob Saget, Nyarlathotep, etc. here) that if the game entitled Half Life 2: Episode 3 is not released in it's completed form by the end of the year, 2012, that I will never buy another Valve game or product again, nor do anything that would support them or their endeavers. If I am, for any reason, to break this oath, I will (Insert creatively greusome act of self harm here). Sincerely, (Name or psuedonym here)
Here is an example, as well as my contibution:
I, Yahtzee, solemnly swear upon Nyarlathotep's left testicle, that if the game entitled Half Life 2: Episode 3 is not released in it's completed form by the end of the year, 2012, I will never buy another Valve game or product again, nor do anything that would support them or their endeavers. If I am, for any reason, to break this oath, I will travel to Africa, spray myself with Rhinoceros sex hormones, and enter into a Rhinoceros habitat WITHOUT LUBE.
Sincerely, Yahtzee
(Please note that I am not in any way related to Zero Punctuation's Yahtzee of the Escapist Magazine)
