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HL2 Going Gold Monday [message #111316] |
Sat, 28 August 2004 06:19 |
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SuperFlyingEngi
Messages: 1756 Registered: November 2003
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"Half-Life 2 was unexpectedly delayed this week when asteroids came down and destroyed every last truck transporting copies of the game from Valve's headquarter's to the stores. Luckily, no one who has worked on the game was harmed, and all of the source code is fully intact on Valve's database. However, the team will need at least 9 more months to fix the code that was already fine."
You laugh now, but watch it happen...
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Theodore Roosevelt (1918)
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HL2 Going Gold Monday [message #111351] |
Sat, 28 August 2004 09:51 |
quikboy6
Messages: 39 Registered: May 2004 Location: California
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Half-Life 2 Fool's Gold
MikeJ @ 10:20 pm pdt - half-life, hl2 & tf2 - important - 124 comments - hot topic
Recently there was a post made on the HL2 Fallout Forums under Gabe Newell's account claiming that Half-Life 2 would be going gold on Monday. This post has been confirmed a hoax. An anonymous imposter guessed Gabe's password, "gaben", and made the false claim. Valve has confirmed that this is was a hoax on the Steam Forums.
Here are the full details straight from Mr Bond:
Update: After one crazy night of theories, server mayhem and IP tracing, we've finally gotten to the bottom of this mess. In a twist of hilarity, it seems that Gabe Newell's account password was set to 'gaben'. Person x guessed this and made the "going gold on Monday" post which we've heard so much about. The user (who we believe is the same person x) then made this post just minutes ago using Gabe's account [announcing that he guessed Gabe's pass as "gaben"]
After a quick double-check, it seems that this was exactly what happened. Reminds me of the good old days. For an official response concerning the hoax, see Chris Bokitch's post on Steampowered.
I think Gabe is going to need to start using slightly better passwords on accounts he uses to make public announcements on.
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Steam Forums thread here
If all else fails, run'em over!
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HL2 Going Gold Monday [message #111377] |
Sat, 28 August 2004 12:11 |
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OBVIOUSLY.
I suck cock and love it... absolutely love it. And I just got banned for being too immature to be allowed to post here.
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