Believe what you want. You are just another manipulated "Gabe for President" fanboy!
It makes absolutely sense when you revisit the HL1 development history. Valve has again overestimated themselves! Even Gabe admitted in one of his emails to HL fans.
Explanation:
During last year's E3...
Nice to meet you, my name is vacs!
The reason you grew tiresome it's not because what I said is wrong nor that you are old and grumpy but simplay because you can't accept the truth :) Seems to be quite a widespread disease here.
To the one who said that valve financed HL2 through their...
The problem is not just about valve lying to their customers but the main problem is the complete lack of communication between valve and the ones who pay their salaries!
Valve is rather going to CNN to tell them that HL2 won't be available for another couple of months than tell it directly...
old build of CZ?
Stop making things up to make look the source code theft less important than it is. Valve fanboys are really even worse than nvidiots.
Like I said 1-2 months ago: Don't think about playing HL2 before Fall 2004, in fact expect a X-mas release.
If anybody wants I can repeat this every day, I got no problem with it :)