[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.