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sonicbaz
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How much would the December to April delay cost Valve? Just wondering as it couldn't be peanuts, could it?
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PointMan
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Probably a pretty nice chunk of change. They missed the entire holiday season. That's a pretty big deal.
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kkevin666
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quite a bit on the russian release LOL
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covertghost
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Even though they missed the Holiday season I am sure its not going to hurt them that bad because even if the game comes out this spring it will still probably break numerous sales records everywhere that it sales. I for one will be contributing to that 
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It will still sell like a monster, but the lack of the Christmas sales will hurt them slightly. But I think the bottom line is this: 99.9% of the people who would have bought it, or got it for Christmas, will STILL get it whenever it comes out. I know I'll be there whenever it comes out.
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I agree with you jimbones LOl.. I just picked myself up a 9800XT and I got my free coupon how nice. Hopefully by the time HL2 comes out I won't need a new video card
It's only a delay in high income and an ultimately insignificant extra cost in development. My guess is it would only cost them a couple of million dollars until it comes out...they'll probably spend much more on advertising, and another guess is they're already cashing in on the ATi deal:smoking: The only problem they'll have is p2p filesharing...which cost the PC gaming industrie a lot of dough.
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Ummm. If they released what they had in Dec they'd have lost the whole company.
If they had completed the game by Dec it woud have cost them hundreds of thousands in the extra staff to get it finished on time.
The saved money by not releasing in Dec.
If they had completed the game by Dec it woud have cost them hundreds of thousands in the extra staff to get it finished on time.
The saved money by not releasing in Dec.
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Dagobert said:
that is so completely wrong im trying not to laugh.
The banks who gave Valve the $$$ to make Hl2 would be moaning about wanting their money back with interest so you can probably bet a good couple million.
about 5-10,000,000
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They only lost the money they would have made from the clueless people who just feel like buying their kids/friends a random game for christmas, and happen to pick half-life. The majority of people getting the game will buy it whenever it comes out, regardless of the date.
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From what I've learned in game class, the "money lost" would not necessarily be Valve's, but Vivendi's. If they're like the typical developers that we've learned about, basically Vivendi would periodically send them some cash (I dunno, like once a month or so I'd guess), with which Valve'd pay its people. So if Valve talked to Vivendi and told them of the situation, it's entirely possible that Vivendi would keep putting money into them if they felt that in the end all would come out. HOWEVER, if, for example, Valve didn't come up with the game in a "reasonable time" according to the financial people, Vivendi could cut Valve's funding until they put out the game, which, after a very short period of time, would force Valve to just publish whatever they had by that time.
Unless they have some sort of other relationship with Vivendi that I know nothing about lol.
Unless they have some sort of other relationship with Vivendi that I know nothing about lol.
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The other day at work I fired up the HL2 trailer movie around the barricade scene, for some of my less computer savvy colleagues, and for a while they wouldn't believe me when I said it was ingame footage, they were convinced it was all computer animation. After the disbelief had passed, the first question was 'when is it out?'
Amongst us game heads enthusiasm for HL² may have waxed and waned at times, but the core truth is that HL² is a profit waiting to happen. When it finally ships it is going to break records.
Amongst us game heads enthusiasm for HL² may have waxed and waned at times, but the core truth is that HL² is a profit waiting to happen. When it finally ships it is going to break records.
