HL2 Hackers arrested! - Page 2

STIMEY d okgm fish

Canada6140 Posts

June 11 2004 02:34 GMT

#21

the HL single player was classic for its time, and the HL2 team has had more freedom, time, funding to make the best game possible. they probably are not overly focusing on graphics... everything else is probably just as good as the graphics, at least in the single player, the effort, the time, the quality, funding, etc.

NewbSaibot

3849 Posts

June 11 2004 02:57 GMT

#22

Im not so sure i buy this whole "community" effort to track down the hackers. The reason the hackers did this was for the community. They exposed that valve had been lying all along about release dates, engine capabilities, and progress. Valve had been playing game politics with everyone trying to steer the course of what people would buy, and some got fed up with it. Suspicion was already there, but once the code was released, it was confirmed. Valve had been fulla shit for awhile and now called on it. Its not like it was 100% code disclosure anyway, from what i remember it was more around 30-40%. So its not like valve was crippled. The only potential harm done was just further delaying the game causing valve to recode parts for security reasons, which i doubt they even did. If by chance some nerdy piece(s) of shit turned em in for a reward, this is just another example of valve playing with words. This aint the fuckin whitehouse, why they gotta mislead people like this?