Sushi
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If the delay proves to be true, Valve has made a big mistake for various reasons.
1) This puts a huge black mark on their repuatation, since they were "silently confident" about their release date of the 30th, yet only a mere 6 days before release, they come out and announce a delay of months, after months of near total silence on the game. Something that takes months to delay a game doesn't exactly appear out of nowhere, so if it's related to the game, then they must have known about this for a long time.
2) They will lose sales to other games such as Halo, since there are many gamers who can only to afford a handful of games a year. With two hotly anticipated games coming out on the same day, and one getting pushed back, Halo will get much more sales than HL2 since it was able to come out first. Now people will forget about the HL2 hype since they will be busy playing other games.
3) If they are delaying the release for debugging, wouldn't that defeat the purpose of Steam? One reason why they are pushing Steam is so that they can instantly release patches directly to the user as soon as they are ready. And besides, one of the few things Gabe has said this month is that they were in the process of final playtesting (I know I heard this somewhere, anyone got it posted?).
4) All these n00bs who were confident about a delay for no reason other than unsupported rumors are right and now they will be able to gloat at us, saying how wrong we were. This includes that assmuppet Fragmaster at PHL.
But nonetheless, at least we will get the benchmark on the 30th. And if this is Vivendi's fault for the delay, hopefully Valve will release new media to somewhat compensate. Maybe they will begin to work on a demo to release before the full game is released...
1) This puts a huge black mark on their repuatation, since they were "silently confident" about their release date of the 30th, yet only a mere 6 days before release, they come out and announce a delay of months, after months of near total silence on the game. Something that takes months to delay a game doesn't exactly appear out of nowhere, so if it's related to the game, then they must have known about this for a long time.
2) They will lose sales to other games such as Halo, since there are many gamers who can only to afford a handful of games a year. With two hotly anticipated games coming out on the same day, and one getting pushed back, Halo will get much more sales than HL2 since it was able to come out first. Now people will forget about the HL2 hype since they will be busy playing other games.
3) If they are delaying the release for debugging, wouldn't that defeat the purpose of Steam? One reason why they are pushing Steam is so that they can instantly release patches directly to the user as soon as they are ready. And besides, one of the few things Gabe has said this month is that they were in the process of final playtesting (I know I heard this somewhere, anyone got it posted?).
4) All these n00bs who were confident about a delay for no reason other than unsupported rumors are right and now they will be able to gloat at us, saying how wrong we were. This includes that assmuppet Fragmaster at PHL.
But nonetheless, at least we will get the benchmark on the 30th. And if this is Vivendi's fault for the delay, hopefully Valve will release new media to somewhat compensate. Maybe they will begin to work on a demo to release before the full game is released...
