Half-life 2 Source Code Stolen
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<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Well guys, I'm sorry my first news post is on a negative subject, but here it is: the Half-Life 2 Source Code was stolen.
This is not a joke. Nor is it a case of someone getting a copy of the game before it was released. A hacker (or a group of them) actually hacked into vALVE's servers and broke into Gabe Newell's private account. As he talks about in the link below, since 9/11 Gabe has had problems with his computer like keys being messed up and e-mail being screwy, but he was unable to find a virus. Then on 9/19, someone copied the HL2 source code right off their servers.
It seems obvious to me that this is the reason for the delays of Half-Life 2. Even though it seems that vALVE still has everything working for themselves (nothing was deleted), this would no doubt put a damper on many projects that they would have been working on: Anti-Cheat tech being the major one I can think of. Check out my source here: www.hardocp.com, and if you know anything about what has happened, please e-mail valve at helpvalve@valvesoftware.com.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Well guys, I'm sorry my first news post is on a negative subject, but here it is: the Half-Life 2 Source Code was stolen.
This is not a joke. Nor is it a case of someone getting a copy of the game before it was released. A hacker (or a group of them) actually hacked into vALVE's servers and broke into Gabe Newell's private account. As he talks about in the link below, since 9/11 Gabe has had problems with his computer like keys being messed up and e-mail being screwy, but he was unable to find a virus. Then on 9/19, someone copied the HL2 source code right off their servers.
It seems obvious to me that this is the reason for the delays of Half-Life 2. Even though it seems that vALVE still has everything working for themselves (nothing was deleted), this would no doubt put a damper on many projects that they would have been working on: Anti-Cheat tech being the major one I can think of. Check out my source here: www.hardocp.com, and if you know anything about what has happened, please e-mail valve at helpvalve@valvesoftware.com.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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Any other company has to follow this theory, why were Valve any different?
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Handily, someone has got a copy of the HL2 code. So we are now using this as a reason for delaying HL2 yet again, to stop all of you baying for our blood.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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