Half-Life 2 so far...

SAS

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It has been quiet on the Half-Life 2 news front, until now. An explosion of activity has swept across the net with news sites and retail sites reporting increased volumes of traffic. Gamers are eagerly awaiting any possibility of the game being activated early.

Reports of an early release of the game, including screenshots of the box and cds have surfaced, although this appeared to be a localised case rumours of the game appearing randomly in small retailers have started to grow in number.

Valve has released a statement regarding the activation of Half-Life 2, due for official release on the 16th November:

Half-Life 2 For Sale?
If you have purchased a copy of Half-Life 2, we are sorry you are still waiting to play. This is not Valve's choice. Vivendi is insisting that the game has not yet been released, and has threatened that Valve would be in violation of its contract if we activate the Half-Life 2 Steam authentication servers at this time.

Thanks for your patience and we will update you when we have more news to share.

To round off, Gamespot have posted an article about the final hours of Half-Life 2.

So what did happen? As Newell and the team have explained, by July it was obvious that Half-Life 2 would not be finished in time for a September 30 release. So why was Valve still telling the public in late August that the game was on schedule? "We were paralyzed," Newell says. "We knew we weren't going to make the date we promised, and that was going to be a huge fiasco and really embarrassing. But we didn't have a new date to give people either." In other words, Newell didn't want to announce the delay until he had a new official date to announce. It's that simple. "So I decided we should just stay quiet," he says.

Still, there's a difference between staying quiet and confirming a ship date that you know to be incorrect. Newell says that, in retrospect, he may have made the wrong decision on this front. At the time, however, he didn't want to announce the delay until he had something better to tell the fans. "I didn't want to go to 'when it's done' or announce 17 different dates over the next few months," he says.
Not long to go now. Will a rise in last minute work sickness occur on Tuesday? :)
 

Syrus_The_Virus

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I've heard a rumor that RELODED have cracked it and its filtering through the warez scene as we speak, dont see how though considering they cant possibly have the last of the files needed to unlock it!?

either way im looking forward to my legit copy bein unlocked at 8 :p

^^ but surely if this is true they'll let us have it a teeny bit early hehe :)
 

nath

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They can if they have the retail version that comes on cd/dvd. I imagine that has all the files.
 

Tom

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I very much doubt its been cracked, since the authentication procedure will surely contain some great big long decryption key?
 

nath

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That doesn't mean that's the only way of playing the game - there are ways round these things. Sometimes.
 

Syrus_The_Virus

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They got around it for cs:source, enabling them to all play on legit servers with a different Steam ID each time!

Its not if, its when!
 

mank!

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Just over an hour! I've so blatantly skived off work for this :|
 

Syrus_The_Virus

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mank said:
Just over an hour! I've so blatantly skived off work for this :|
Lol, and how sad are we for getting up this early just for a game?
Im surprised how mental most of the forums I visit are going...
 

Durzel

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I was off ill yesterday (genuinely) so theres no way I can be off today, deadlines etc. Argh :(
 

mank!

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Syrus_The_Virus said:
Lol, and how sad are we for getting up this early just for a game?
Im surprised how mental most of the forums I visit are going...

I have to get up at 6am to phone in sick anyway, so I'm not that sad.

Nearly there!
 

Whipped

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logout and log back in. Worked for me. Got a Doctors appointment at 8:40 though :(
 

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