what when who?

[Nex321]

Correct me if I'm wrong

But are Valve going to send hl2 to the xx and let the xx announce if its gold or not, or have they allready sent it to them?

I heard last week that they were going to send hl2 to xx "soon"

xx=I have no idea whats that called so I put them as xx

 

[Koffern]

xx= vivendi
soon= 15 sept

Short answer= little time

 

[Nex321]

lol

Ok, thank you

 

[Harryz]

Most of you should already know this, but for those who still aren't quite familiar with how the system works (yes, that would be those of you E-mailing me), here's a run-down of the release process for HL2. Valve has announced that they will be delivering an RC (release candidate) to Vivendi around the 15th of this month. That does not mean that HL2 will be out immediately thereafter. Vivendi will still have to approve the RC, a process that could take another two or three weeks, depending on their QA department and how fit the RC is to be released. If it were rejected, Valve would have to cook up another one and submit that for approval. Once an RC is approved, we should get a "gone gold" announcement. Those of you who preloaded HL2 and intend to buy it online would *may* be allowed to purchase it shortly afterward and start playing it once you've downloaded the last few files (I'm still not certain whether Valve contractually obliged to wait until it's on the shelves - I don't have Fragmaster's psychic spy network). For those of you still intending to buy a physical copy, it would be at least another few weeks before the game hit the shelves; duplication, packaging and shipping take a while. Damn our lack of transporters.

From PlanetHalflife.com.

 

[AJ Rimmer]

Question; Does anyone know the precise date when VALVe actually went out and said the game had been delayed from Sept. 30th to the holidays last year? I think sometime around 24th- 27th but does anyone know exactly?