There really shouldn't be a winner in this lawsuit since both parties have a good case against each other. A good compromise would be having 10% of steam sales go to VU (since they did the marketing, but packaging and distribution do not apply). That way, Valve still gets paid a larger amount for sales through steam while Vivendi gets their money for the marketing that they've done for HL2.
VALVe are pioneers in uncharted territory. How could they know how long it would take? So they were optimistic. This is unfortunate but forgivable.
However long it took them to make HL2 is exactly how long it takes to make HL2. Period. How can you argue with that? And how could they know how long that was before they started? Or even half way through? Untill it was done (assuming it is), all they could do was guess.
And for this, you fault them?
You cannot rush art.
It sounds like you are one of those fans that believes you are entitled to HL2.
What are you talking about? All companies have internal deadlines. I pointed out they were missing them way before the game was even released.
Man what a stupid thread. Valve is completely self funded - the HL IP is theirs and neither Sierra nor VU has any legal or moral right to it. That any self-respecting gamer could think otherwise just beggars belief.
I don't know if a person can 'beggar' anything, but if it was that cut and dry, I don't think this issue would have gone to court.
Oh and it is COMPLETELY off base to try to draw a parallel between Valve (a private non-floated company) with huge publicly listed corporates like Enron, where top execs are implicated in shredding documents, falsify records, lying and walk away with golden handshakes with economic chaos in their wake. Valve missed an estimated release in totally adverse conditions (the hack); there is just no comparison. I can understand some degree of jaded frustration but this is just asinine showing a complete lack of understanding of the comparitive gravity of the issues involved.
I didn't give a metaphor, I made a comparison. Of course the two aren't the same when it comes to brevity and the seriousness involved. I think I made that clear.
BTW - WTF does Interplay have to do with anything?
valve and vivendi should just have a game of cs and whoever wins gets half life 2
Vivendi: omg teh g4b3z0r 15 h4x0rzing s3nd h1m 2 c0urt!!!!!111111oneone
