About The Half Life 2 Source Code...

[Jet Set Willy]

Okay, some of you are probably up to speed on this, but I'll tell the story for people who don't know.

Originally posted at PlanetHalfLife.com:
Thanks to some sad-ass hackers, Half-Life 2's source code was leaked. And now leaked game content and a crappy, partial, slightly playable version are out there.

The rumours (from reliable sources) state that the code was stolen by means of a specially written virus, from Gabe at Valve's personal development machine (he's been criticised for having a machine with secure code on it being connected to the Internet). The code was a snapshot from around 30th September, and included Havok and Steam code along with most of the HL2 engine itself.

This is bad news because
1) Cheaters now have a head start
2) Valve have stated that this is giving them a 4 month release lag, so now the game won't be out in time for Christmas

The source code is readily available on web-sites and torrents.

What are your thoughts?

[Lefteris_D]

One person stated that this will let mod makers make better mods, another one said that illegal client software will pop out. And finally the last one said: "I'd like to see how they handle Linux in their code".

Go figure...

[Jet Set Willy]

I think the 4 months delay is for the developers to drastically change a lot of stuff so that none of that can happen.

[Jay]

Yeah, I'd say they'll change a lot of things in the code before the release.

[The Hedgehog]

From our friend the 1337 h4xx0r
To all those saying HL2 was delayed because of the hacking action, ill just remind you that what was leaked is what Valve has, nothing more and nothing less, so its pretty good to understand it wasnt finished yet.
Also I'd like to point out the E3 [demo] was one big fake by Valve. Ever tried to kill that soldier in physicstown ? Notice the door will still get kicked ? No scripted sequences ?

To everyone saying this is no Beta: I'd like to point out that THIS is what you wanted Valve to release on 9/30/03, theres no such thing as a much better release in Valves network!

To Valve: I suggest you stop lying to your customers about how much was stolen/compromised, or I'll have to release everything just to prove my point. And you know what you got, as I do.

[Neko Koneko]

What an idiot. Let Valve do their bloody work their way.

[DanielW]

damn, i wonder if what's he's saying is true

[onewecallgod]

heard that other little things like top secret future projects were with what was stolen

[donkeyknob]

wasnt the original HL source code given away so mods could be made anyways? why wouldnt they do the same for HL2?

[Danny]

I think they just released an SDK and not the whole source code, but I don't really know what I'm talking about.