Posted October 3, 200321 yr http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10756 Reading some of the comments Valve are still receiving people obviously do not get this. The source code was stolen before the delay. The source code was stolen on 19th September, and the delay was announced on 24th September. The source code was stolen before the delay. Valve do not deserve this for announcing the delay so close to release, because The source code was stolen before the delay. This would not have been avoided if Valve released HL2 on 30th as promised, because The source code was stolen before the delay. Does everybody get that now? Everything makes sense now. The release was going fine up until the middle of September, then Valve started to go a bit quiet. Then the delay is announced with a comment relating to “email problems.” And Valve go even quieter. Everyone who has seen a Valve guy recently for interviews etc. has commented that they all looked like shite, and really stressed out. They could not announce that they had been hacked because they were probably hoping that he would try again, and that they could catch him. If you look at the source code, (and we all have) you will see in the folder \gameui what looks to me like the source for the Steam client. What this means is that if somebody is running the build from that source, he is pretty much running an open source web server, with open ports, with people who want to hack it, (as opposed to the likes of eMule and Bittorrent which is supported by hacker types because as the saying goes “you don’t shit on your own doorstep”) that is able to download, install and execute code. Anyone running this could expect to be hacked so fast and hard they’d think Blaster was the best app ever. This is why Steam and files have been updated 6 times since then. If HL2 had come out as expected it would have contained some of this compromised code, and what’s more some of us would have been giving it our credit card details! How the hell could Valve release HL2 after the source code was stolen? Now they need to re-write the Steam network. Then they have to rebuild all the games the run on it, which obviously includes HL2, and only then can they release. It is no wonder they can only say “a holiday release.” The one to blame for HL2’s delay, isn’t Valve, isn’t Steam, isn’t nVidia or ATi (who was my bet.), and it isn’t Vivendi. It is the bellend who hacked Valve and stole the source code 2 weeks before launch. http://home.socal.rr.com/counterblock/bellend.jpg
October 3, 200321 yr omfg, thanks for clearing that up. OY^OQ%^YUKQKLJJ)& none fucking cares hl2 can lick my pie hole.
October 3, 200321 yr HL2??? FUck HL2!!! I will never subscibe to play a fucking GAME ....are you shiteing me?>? FUCK VALVE and the money grubbing programming fagg0ts. I'm happy that their precious shite code got hacked....they deserve getting fucked up the ASS.....Pay to PLAY???? FUCK YOU!!!!
October 3, 200321 yr You don't have to pay to play unless you choose to do it that way. "Fuck Valve" you say? You bought/play their game. :rolleyes2 Way to bite the hand that feeds you.
October 3, 200321 yr Im suprised ATi had nothing to do with this, because in the past ATi has leaked quite a bit of information that shouldnt have been public. -bg
October 4, 200321 yr this theory has made the most sense of any others i have heard. I figured the cd key algorithm for working cd keys would be in the source code but i didn't realize the steam source was mixed in with it. Interesting. Anyone think whoever did this will get caught? I'm mad now because we have to wait 3 more months for hl2....
