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Posted by Leperous on Wed Feb 4th at 12:58pm 2004

Oh, so Vivendi are going to make up random dates now, and not base them on what Valve tell them?

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Posted by Jinx on Wed Feb 4th at 1:54pm 2004

as Lep said, that's the thing- that Valve seems to have blatantly lied to everyone about that Sept release date. being lied to tends to piss people off. I know if I was a magazine editor I'd certainly be cautious about doing another HL2 cover story anytime soon! the continuing fiasco that is Condition Zero doesn't inspire confidence, either

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Posted by scary_jeff on Wed Feb 4th at 2:20pm 2004

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an executive from publisher Vivendi Universal Games told media outlets that the theft would delay the game until April 2004. That date was nothing more than a blind guess, though. Valve, the only company that really had a firm grasp on the impact of the theft, wrapped itself in a cocoon, refusing all questions from the media and not saying a word about when the game would hit shelves ? until now.

So yes, vivendi did 'make up' the date - as you can see from the quote, valve have refused to say anything about release dates between september 29th and this 'summer 04' announcement. And Kornflakes, the dates that you were told would have been issued by vivendi, bnot valve. If vivendi was getting it's information from valve, they would have known that summer 04 was the expected release date before Doug Lombardi told CNN. If it is valve supplying release dates to vivendi, who then announce them, how is it that the new release dates come from CNN and not the publisher of the game!?

And what's to say valve lied? They announced september 30th, which they thought they would be able to stick to. They didn't say the game was delayed until the 29th, which does suck, but isn't lying. After that they have not said one release date other than 'summer 04'.

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Posted by Leperous on Wed Feb 4th at 2:57pm 2004

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an executive from publisher Vivendi Universal Games told media outlets that the theft would delay the game until April 2004. That date was nothing more than a blind guess, though.

I think you're taking this quote far too literally- Vivendi would have asked Valve what was going on... But okay, fair enough that it might be Vivendi who are lying to us... burn them I say, burn!

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Posted by Dr Brasso on Wed Feb 4th at 3:26pm 2004

Uncle Brasso, feeling quite young and alive this morning, after coffee, danish (she was great! ), sits and reads current HL2 thread, and breaks into Doris Day showtune.....

"Que sera, sera....whatever will be, will be, the futures not ours to see...Que sera, seraaaaaa....."

and as our Uncle Brasso retreats for more coffee and danish (damn shes great! ) he places one foot in front of the other and marches steadfastly towards his appointed goal....(man, did i mention i love danish??.. )

itll happen when it happens.....