draggoon01

haven't heard anything, and i remember a sep 30 release date being mentioned. is that still the plan? shouldn't there be some announcements or demos or something? anyone working in retail have any knowledge on this?

Trigger

no - next month

Groucho

Planethalflife.com is convinced that the game won't make the 9/30 date, however Valve keeps insisting that it will. If it's going to make that date, it's going to need to go gold next week.

It could be that 9/30 is the date for the Steam release, and perhaps the SKU versions will come later.

Jackskeleton

Well it only takes about two weeks from the anouncement that it went gold to make it on shelves.. lets see if it can make it.

Trigger

I'd rather see them wait if they need to.

glassdragon

read in the new oxm that hl2 for xbox isn't coming out till like fall of next year i think it said

Groucho

The plot thickens...

I checked Ebgames.com and Gamestop.com this time last week and the date was still 9/30. As of today, it's now 11/19 on both sites.

This still doesn't preclude an early Steam release.

PalmerJoss

If the game isn't completed I'd prefer that they wait rather than turn out a piece of crap game. If it's not ready, don't release it--I don't mind waiting if the end result is an excellent game.

Trigger

Oops - that's right... November... that's what I meant, but I forgot about October...


I had heard of the Nov 19th date elsewhere, but I can't recall where.

TOPDAWG

That is a good thing that way they can take their time and make a good playing nice looking port. Does anyone know if valve is doing the port them shelfs or handing it off to a 3rd party like most company's do when giving ports to xbox.

Groucho

Port them shelfs!!!

gr8fuldave

loll groucho. Im with everyone else. If we can get a relatively bug free game then push the date back. I can wait too till year's end for an excellent game.

Jackskeleton

Steam hasn't released any Blink video's for a while. they put them on hold so that they could work on the game non stop. I'm willing to put some money that they will make the date.

TOPDAWG

Oops damn spell checker. I did not look at the list of words I could pick I just hit change all my bad. HAHA that is funny I will leave the post alone cause it's damn funny.

Jackskeleton

The real shockers come out now..:

Steam is of course replacing the WON ID process.. the real question is how will this effect LAN games

http://steampowered.com/index.php?ar...0,1050915714,9<br%20/>1503900


So basiclly, steam is required for HL2 whenever you play anything other then Single player. will LAN games need to have a net connection to play?

http://steampowered.com/index.php?ar...15714,91503900


Note: some Steam-enabled single-player games (such as Half-Life 2) purchased at a retail store will allow offline play until the user decides to play online or enable other Steam functionality. From that point on, an Internet connection will be required."


"At a LAN party, this means that Internet access must be available to every machine on which Steam games are being played. "


Hmmmmmmmmmmm...


Also note, EB pulls dates out of their ass

http://www.ebgames.com/ebx/product/216810.asp
Duke nukem anyone?

oh, TF2
http://www.ebgames.com/ebx/product/219676.asp

Trigger

That kinda sucks... steam sounded good until they turned it into some nazi big brother thing.

Jackskeleton

All in the step to prevent Juarez.

Trigger

lol... "juarez"

Jackskeleton

Yup, the latest in Net talk. we used to say Warez, now we just claim we are getting games from south of the boarder..