Unfortunately Valve -- for whatever reason -- refused to own up to the fact that Half-Life 2 was going to be delayed. Gabe made that ridiculous "First time I've heard about this" response, and other sites overreacted and assumed that this meant that Vivendi's announcement was a mistake. This situation was further complicated by Vivendi's backtracking: after Valve essentially refused to confirm the delay news, Vivendi was forced to (kind of) retract their original delay announcement. So tons of people incorrectly assumed this meant HL2 was still coming out on time.

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I visited Valve in early September to conduct interviews for the Behind the Scenes book. It was quite a bit of fun, but I was a little disturbed by a few things. I won't get into the specifics, but information wasn't matching up. Things said during the E3 demo turned out to be either misleading or untrue, for example. I don't want to say exactly what kind of state the game was in when I was there, but you'll recall that when other fan sites visited Valve later that month (BEFORE the source code leak, even), they were unable to see the game. Now, if the game was in a playable state and supposedly ready to go gold within a couple of days, don't you think they would have shown it off?

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The Anonymous Leaker, despite being an asshole such as myself, was basically correct. HL2 wasn't nearly as far along as Valve was hinting at, and a lot of the things Valve showed in the E3 demo were misrepresented. Did he really release all the work Valve had done on HL2? To be honest, I don't know for sure. It's a possibility. Valve certainly made little effort to dispute his claims.


http://www.forumplanet.com/planethalflife/...549&tid=1352802

I basicly agree with the things he say, but not really the strenght of it. No matter what happend or not, it's still just a computer game. Not the end of the world.

From what I can roughly tell, based on certain...uh...experiences I've had with HL2, it's no Deus Ex 2. It's just...damnit I like this game, and I like Valve (or I think). Part of me doesn't want to believe fragmaster, but part of me knows he's right. Sigh.

I just want my HL2. I don't care when, I still trust Valve to make a completely kick ass game. I just don't want this drama any more. I wish they would stop lying and just say Holidays 2005 or whenever, and I wish everyone would stop all this sporking drama.

I just want my HL2.

A generel misconception here... It's not duke nukem  forever it just duke nukem the forever part came from a misread piece of paper

|         Title         |        Delayed          |
____________________________
|Duke nukem  |       Forver               |
|HL2                 |  a couple of years |
|Doom III          | 1 year+                   |

that would rock

valve sucks. they havent released a game since the original HL, and they are quickly becoming daikatana 2 w/ hl2.

Silly people; Half-Life 2 ships in 1969.

Lol, I took a screeny of it if they fix the typo before you see it.