Half-Life 2 held hostage. will it ever be released?
 

the drama continues. . .

Court filings show VU Games has the right to sit on finished Half-Life 2 code for up to six months.


"Valve has announced that it will deliver a release candidate version of Half-Life 2 (HL2) (a game required under the 2001 SPA) to Sierra/VUG within the next few weeks. If Valve delivers a release candidate version that complies with the contract and is a Final Milestone, then VUG will have six months to release the product under the 2001 SPA. Valve is pressing VUG to release the product early within that six month window, and its representatives have made a number of public statements without our consent or concurrence that the product will be published and released to the general public in September of this year."

The statement's implication is that VUG, angry with Valve's "public statements," could sit on Half-Life 2 for up to six months. But would VUG use this six-month window as leverage to force Valve to back down from demands contained in its original August 14, 2002 lawsuit?

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/09...s_6108100.html

Been waiting forever.....

its been almost 2 years

they need to stop fucking about and just release the game already, the more hype it gets the more of a let down it will be.

For those not in the know such as myself this is what a dispute between the coders and the game distributors over revenues owed on other titles and because of bad blood the distributor may delay the game 6 months as they are allowed to do according to their original contract?

I also heard they are using the time to upgrade the graphics because of doom3 and Quake4 they just don't wanna look bad...

im still buying it regardless but sux to keep waiting :(

I stopped buying into hype on video games loooong ago.

yes, that right