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I heard this news from somewhere before the Sep 30 deadline and the announcements of delay, somebody from Valve said that the game "is ready and we are just play testing it right now"
Obviously, the game is not 'ready' thus the delay, but what happened there? Why issue the 'game is ready..' statement?
Note: Assuming the delay from Sep 30 to holiday is before the hacking incident and the holiday to april is the hacking incident.