Yeah, I brought this up yesterday too. All that money some people spent anticipating Sept 30th.
This game won't be on the shelves till XMas of 2004, and they knew this before the so called 'hack job'.
Thanks for the link and this is the key part:
said Peter Molyneux, head of Lionhead Studios. "We are currently considering restricting Internet access to certain key individuals."
Well no friggin DUH!
If you million dollar + code is connected to the internet in any sort of way you...
"The need to constantly switch back and forth between computers, the real annoyance of having to transfer things back and forth and back and forth all the while making sure that security protocols for the transfers were followed, etc etc."
You can easily have a closed network that does not...
meh- posting on a website message board should in no way pose any pressure towards valve
unless of course they are using their online PCs to write the code as the read the boards
In this case, the obvious should have been well known.
Valve was simply stupid, if this story is true.
They deserve the xtra costs associtated with this for being so Stupid.