Valve vs. Vivendi = Half-Life 2 Delay?
Posted by: Newsfactory on: 09/20/2004 09:38 PM [ Print | 8 comment(s) ] · 2685 views
According to Gamespot, Half-Life 2 could be delayed thanks to a legal fight over the Steam digital distribution scheme that Valve is using to bypass Vivendi Universal Games distribution over the net. Maybe we will only have HL2 when this fight is over (march/2005)?
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Domingo Unregistered |
#56854 Posted on: 09/20/2004 09:43 PM
There's already a release candidate that's been sent to Vivendi. If there's any sort of delay, you'd better believe that'll be all over the 'net (not as though it won't already) REALLY fast. I'm sure the pre-load likely won't stay encrypted long either... We'll be playing HL2 in one form or another pretty soon. |
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andycollison Unregistered |
#56855 Posted on: 09/20/2004 09:54 PM
Gabe Newell, founder and managing director of Valve, conveyed "misleading half-truth" that could not be gabe could it  |
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shlepp420 Unregistered |
#56857 Posted on: 09/20/2004 11:16 PM
its valves game and they shuld be able to distro it thru vivendi and steam if they wish. |
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wb22gprix Unregistered |
#56858 Posted on: 09/20/2004 11:23 PM
lol |
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Stimpy Unregistered |
#56863 Posted on: 09/21/2004 08:44 AM
Surely not ANOTHER delay??? I'm starting to wonder just how good the programmers are for this game!!! lol |
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Dakisha Unregistered |
#56872 Posted on: 09/21/2004 04:41 PM
LEGAL delays... This has nothing to do with the quality of programmers. This has to do with littigation. |
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thomas997 Unregistered Posts: 11 Joined: 2003-04-21 |
#56883 Posted on: 09/21/2004 10:27 PM
I highly doubt anyone will crack the preload. And Im sure theres at least one key file left to download. Valve should say ***** you to Vivendi and do HL2 steam only. Theyd probably lose some sales, yes, but they would get all the profit (instead of vivendi, greedy producers, getting most). |
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shlepp420 Unregistered |
#56983 Posted on: 09/24/2004 11:46 PM
Why doesnt valve just disto the game to stores themselves, its not like they need vivendi to do it for them, plus in this case valve will get more $$$ out of it as they will not need to pay vivendi or something like that |
