HL2 delayed til April of 2004

[Armo]

PARIS, Oct 7 (Reuters) - The theft of part of its source code has delayed until April 2004 the launch of "Half Life II", the hotly anticipated alien-hunting game of Vivendi Universal Games (Paris:EAUG.PA - News; NYSE:V - News), a company official said.

http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4475

[drowd]

man, what a bunch of hosers...
why cant they just man up and say its not ready cuz we are behind schedule. i am not saying that some guy stealing some code isnt detrimental, but i seriously doubt we now have to go from september 30th all the way to april. thats almost a year. i say it has almost nothing to do with theft, and everything to do with them not owning up to it . . .

i think valve is on my sh*t list . . .

[stoopid]

Funny, I was thinking along the same lines... there could be a lot of reasons for this -- maybe the 'theft' was staged to allow for this viable excuse, but really it's Nvidia's economic muscle pushing release back until they have some new, competing card out by that time [conspiracy :p]... but it really could be so many different players involved... it's sad none-the-less.

[Coaster]

I'm with stoopid

Man, been wanting to say that for ages :D

True though, I think there are some darker forces involved here...

[stoopid]

On the same path, Valve would have NO REASON to delay the release, especially since whomever 'stole' the code wouldn't have had enough time to make any cheats, and since the game's yet to be released, no way of spreading those cheats through the internet, etc... definitely some very dark forces happening here.

[twofaze]

isn't anything w/o deception these days??