[phaus]

Interesting story, terrible article. Valve has always followed the "when its ready" release model. The article makes it sound like there was a huge conspiracy to keep valve's ineptness a secret, else Gabe would have no alternative than to commit ritual suicide.

[ZoFreX]

We're used to that model then, but this was a long time ago - before "Valve time" was so accepted. They had been publically stating that the game was weeks from release, not saying "when it's done" at all. Additionally they had demo'd at E3 and claimed the demo was not scripted, whereas the leak showed it was almost entirely so.

[phaus]

>We're used to that model then, but this was a long time ago - before "Valve time" was so accepted.

"Valve time" was already universally accepted. Between Half-Life, TFC, and Counterstrike, there was an enormous amount of good will towards this company even back then. Plus, we were already used to "Valve time" because it was actually "id time." Id had been doing it for nearly a decade before HL2 game out.

>Additionally they had demo'd at E3 and claimed the demo was not scripted, whereas the leak showed it was almost entirely so.

The guy who obtained the source code himself said that there were so many builds on valve's servers he had no way of knowing whether or not he had the most current build.

[rebugger]

Furthermore "...to find his bed surrounded by police officers. Automatic weapons were pointing at his head..." - that doesn't sound like Germany. Guns are only drawn if you are visibly armed.

[schrijver]

Pretty amazing accomplishment for the German police: they fired only 85 bullets in 2011 http://www.thewire.com/global/2012/05/german-police-used-onl...