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We've received quite a few mails asking us why Valve is waiting until the very last minute to say something about Half-Life 2's current status. The answer? That's just how Valve works. They're funny that way.
The game is missing September 30th. Anybody who knows anything about how game development and distribution works knows it's impossible for Valve to live up to their ECTS claim of a worldwide 9/30 retail release at this point. No, the game has not secretly already gone gold, and no, it's not going to be released on Steam 9/30. Come on, Steam has problems serving 24MB downloads of Deathmatch Classic at this point, even if HL2 was ready to go there's absolutely no way Steam could handle its distribution.
On the plus side, it does look like Counter-Strike Xbox is coming out this year for sure, and maybe
http://www.planethalflife.com ;( ;( ;(
The game is missing September 30th. Anybody who knows anything about how game development and distribution works knows it's impossible for Valve to live up to their ECTS claim of a worldwide 9/30 retail release at this point. No, the game has not secretly already gone gold, and no, it's not going to be released on Steam 9/30. Come on, Steam has problems serving 24MB downloads of Deathmatch Classic at this point, even if HL2 was ready to go there's absolutely no way Steam could handle its distribution.
On the plus side, it does look like Counter-Strike Xbox is coming out this year for sure, and maybe
http://www.planethalflife.com ;( ;( ;(