HL2 hasn't gone gold yet

Rumor has it that HL2 should have gone Gold on Sept 13...thats days ago now and still no Gold...

There's speculation that the release date of Sept. 30 isn't going to see light of day.

I'm wondering if maybe the Steam screw-ups maybe have turned people's hearts away from HL2, and maybe thats why it hasn't gone Gold yet.

What you guys think?

You can actually go Gold through reservation copies?

Didn't know that.

I know tht Steam has certainly turned me away from HL1 a little bit... I can't even get Steam to work, so how am I supposed to play?

You can actually go Gold through reservation copies?

Huh?

No, no, the term "going gold" refers to a game's Gold master CD (usually gold, at least) being created and sent off for duplication. From there it's a couple weeks before the first units hit stores.

KungFuSquirrel said:

You can actually go Gold through reservation copies?

Huh?

No, no, the term "going gold" refers to a game's Gold master CD (usually gold, at least) being created and sent off for duplication. From there it's a couple weeks before the first units hit stores.

so, i take it the software industry is not like the music one?

a million records must be sold to go gold for song titles :/

actually, i believe its a half million for gold, and a million for platinum....but dont quote me.... :heee:

Dr Brasso... :dodgy:

lol yes the term "going gold" in the game industry simply means that the product in question is complete and ready for shipping, as like beta means its a pre-release of some or all of the games quality.

anyways, when da heck is this damn game comin out, i hear christmas season, i hear sometime in september, when???

Yeah, "Gone Gold" means no more coding or content changes will be done. Lots of mods have used the term,  such as Natural Selection.

As for music, I think Brasso's got the right numbers.

Heh- never heard the term used like that. Makes plenty of sense though, when ya think about it.

"Going gold" is generally the term when the team/publishers want to start producing it for the masses.  The master cd is sent off and the burning farms go active.  This is not always a good thing, since if a bug creeps up while they are being produced, there's nothing that can be done until it's out.  Major bugs of note, Fallout Tactics was missing its entire inventory on CD 3, Pools of Radiance 2 wouldn't allow you to uninstall the game without creating a fatal disk error.  It's sad to see a patch for game released before the game is even out...

Edge Damodred said:
 It's sad to see a patch for game released before the game is even out...

sad,? sad is, fallout tactics wasn't even as good as fallout 1, let alone fallout 2...

when i heard that a new fallout was on the way, i was almost as excited as hearing about HL2, or duke 4... but tactics royally blew chunks... :sad:

reminds me of the flop civ 3 turned out to be...

 

imagine my shagrin after downloading AA's 300 some odd megs, only to realize that it isnt supported by my card type....AND two days later they finally posted this little known factoid....

Dr Brasso... :dodgy:

Orpheus said:

Edge Damodred said:
 It's sad to see a patch for game released before the game is even out...

sad,? sad is, fallout tactics wasn't even as good as fallout 1, let alone fallout 2...

when i heard that a new fallout was on the way, i was almost as excited as hearing about HL2, or duke 4... but tactics royally blew chunks... :sad:

reminds me of the flop civ 3 turned out to be...

 

I happened to enjoy tactics...but still nowhere near X-com. That has to be my classic and favoured strategy.

Yeh I loved X-Com my faveorite was Terror From The Deep but my favorite stratergy id the C&C series especially Red Alert 2 but I havent got to play Generals yet

Gorbachev said:
I happened to enjoy tactics...

i notice, you didn't disagree tho :biggrin:

if someone were to discover tactics first.. then yeah it was a very cool game..

but if you bought the games as they were released, then tactics blows chunks..

anyways, its all opinions and preferences i reckon :sad:

Bah! Starcraft pwns all!

Go on just for the sake of being annoying someone else repeat for the 1000th time what going gold means in the games industry!

Advance Wars is a great game too.

Go on just for the sake of being annoying someone else repeat for the 1000th time what going gold means in the games industry!

Well, you see, Myrk, when publishers and developers really love a game (or it's the right time), they do something very special...

You sound like you're about to give "the talk" to some kiddie squirrel...

If i remember correctly, the statement was.. "half-life 2 is expect to be gold by sept 30th... this is the release date for SOME people =D

OMG its only the 18th and LOOK:



Looks like "HALF-LIFE 2" is gold   :biggrin:

it may be "GOLD" but it hasn't gone gold :biggrin: .