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| All they had I think was the 30 minute or so trailer showing off the engine and AI capabilities. I dont think they had any "playable" stuff then. |
At the time, people who had been to E3 and saw the demo said that after the demo one of the staff was playing the game in real time and that it looked smooth enough... Did anyone see the story about the FBI coming to some guys house and confiscating 9 computers from his house in connection with the HL2 leak? You really think that valve would deliberately leak to get more dev time? Have you any idea how much trouble they would be in if, having got the FBI on the case, it turned out they did the whole thing on purpose!? As for basing your opinion on the matter on the leaked material itself, if you do this you are an idiot; whos to say the code and material that was leaked wasn't a year old? The fact is that we don't really know any of the facts because valve haven't said anything.
On top of this, nobody has an answer to: Why would valve announce a pre-christmas release date for the game after 4/5 years of development at E3 if they needed extra dev time just a month after the announcement? Whatever you say about steam and CS:CZ, valve aren't just a bunch of mindless monkeys - I think if they were going to need extra dev time, they would have had some idea of this just a month before at E3? If you go the 'valve is nasty' route, you end up in bunch of totally illogical situations.
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| CS:CZ [...] wasn't even mentioned on Vivendi's 2004 game list. |
Well perhaps it isn't on the list of 2004 releases because the financial year doesn't start until the 1st of April, and CS:CZ is coming out before that? As far as I know, Valve have given the 'final master CD' or whatever you call it to the publishers, and all the delay since them doing that is down to vivendi
