Half-Life 2 delayed?

ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
edited August 2003 in Science & Tech
Headsup gamers... :(
July 29, 2003 - Despite Gabe Newell's emphatic and constant claims at E3 2003 that the highly anticipated Half-Life sequel (we thinks it be Half-Life 2) would release on September 20th 2003 and exactly September 20th, VU Games spokespeople today said over the phone that the title would in fact not ship to retail until "Holiday 2003," which doesn't say a whole hell of a lot other than, "Not September 20th." Unless there's some kind of Washington state holiday we're not familiar with, or Christmas is starting way early this year, VU Games' date change seems like a safe bet to preemptively stave off a potential delay. Vaguely say it'll release "holiday 2003" and presto, you can't go wrong unless it comes out in 2004, which it certainly will not.

Purportedly, Gabe Newell himself has been visiting bulletin boards and responding to emails as he regularly does saying only that this was the first he's heard of the mysterious delay. Spooky. Unfortunately, no one from Valve was available for official comment at time of publish (we have the questions spreading across the wire, however).

Aww.. I really do hope this isn't true :bawling:

Source : IGN

Comments

  • NecropolisNecropolis Hawarden, Wales Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    First Doom 3 then Halflife 2 AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

    :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

    This is getting on my nerves now :mad:
  • TheLostSwedeTheLostSwede Trondheim, Norway Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    Its even worse if the 2 games get released on any console before the pc version. THEN im refusing to buy them.
  • emptyempty houston
    edited July 2003
    Half-Life 2 Not Delayed [08:41 pm]
    63 Comments - Steve Gibson
    A number of gaming sites out there are carrying word of an alleged Half-Life 2 delay according to some folks at Vivendi Universal who are publishing the title retail for Valve Software. However word doesnt seem to have traveled down to Valve according to an email pulled from the Steam forums. (We havent been able to directly confirm or deny with anyone at Valve yet) who might know a thing or two about that. timm of Shacknews comments fame already pointed out this Gabe Newell response:

    First time I've heard about this.

    So there you go, dont panic just yet as Valve Software decides when they ship, not Vivendi. Valve says there is no delay (that they are aware of, and well.. if anyone is aware of a delay it would be Valve), then there is no delay. Things are still on target for Sept 30th until/unless Valve says otherwise. This is of course assuming the email is legit. The bit about something like this coming down from Vivendi is a bit far fetched too given Valve's situation so what the hell. We'll have word here for you guys as soon as we hear from Valve.


    got this from www.shugashack.com
  • TheSmJTheSmJ
    edited July 2003
    Well I hope it aint' so.

    I dunno WHAT I'd do with myself if both of these games are delayed... I may actually have to go out and get exersize or something....
  • Bad_KarmaBad_Karma The Great White North
    edited July 2003
    They better not hold the game back so they can release it in time for Christmas if the thing is on schedule for a September release. I'm already pissed off that Doom III got pushed back.

    Here's to hoping that valve will not let thier fans down and get the game out in September.
  • SimGuySimGuy Ottawa, Canada
    edited July 2003
    I'd rather have it delayed if it were to decrease the number of incompatability problems &....

    OMG I just thought of something. What if NVidia paid off Valve to postpone the release of HL2 so they could fix the Anti-Aliasing problems that affect NVidia's line-up of cards. The NV40 is slated for release this year in time for christmas, and will be considered new silicon. They could physically fix the Anti-Aliasing process on the GPU die and completely squash this problem (at least for new video card buyers). I guess the rest of us NVidia users are ****-outta-luck. :(

    Am I paranoid or what? :D
  • TheSmJTheSmJ
    edited August 2003
    EBGames now states that the game will be released on 11/19/03. :banghead:

    At least it's still gona be this year...
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