H-L 2 Thief Speaks

October 7, 2003 - 9:00pm

There seem to be many twists and bends in the continuing H-L 2 saga. While Valve claim that only one third of the code was stolen, even after the release of a, barely, playable Half-Life 2 beta version, rumours are starting to spread that a pre-Gold release of the game and its full source code may be released tomorrow. According to HalfLife2.net forums and to a variety of H-L 2 fan sites the thief has spoken and this is what he said about the beta and Valve's response:

To everyone saying this is no Beta: I'd like to point out that THIS is what you wanted Valve to release on 9/30/03, theres no such thing as a much better release in Valves network!
I suggested to Valve to stop lying to their customers about how much was stolen. However, they disregarded my statement and called me a liar. Now they will see how much I have been lying when I release the Pre-Gold and all 100 per cent of the sourcecode. Actions speak louder then words.

Anonymous Leaker

The authenticity of this Anonymous Leaker cannot, of course, be verified until tomorrow and even then, only if the threats materialize.

If this is the real leak and he does carry out his threat then tomorrow could be the day that the final nail is hammered into Valve's and H-L 2's, already pounded, coffin.

Gamers can only hope that he is not for real or that he thinks about the reprecussions of his actions and does not carry out his threat.

Comments

H-L 2 Thief Speaks

Man there are some serious idiots on both sides of the arguement here, I mean, if there are people like Niotex asking for naked dog pictures when dogs are naked in the first place - except when they're dressed up but thats only in NY, then I guess.. But whether you want valve to burn in hell or hope the hacker gets caught, I wouldn't mind either of them, but I just don't understand why we are still ranting on about this, lets just watch and see what happens, whatever happens happens, nothing we can do about it, if the hacker is real, and he releases the code, well, thats whats going to happen, nothing Valve or anyone can do about it. I'm sure the hacker is no moron so only him and a couple close friends know about it. So he will probably not be caught, but if its real then everyone gets half life 2 for free, there would be advantages and disadvantages to this, and this is where I believe in either of these things happening. There would be a port to linux for sure, it would be supported by the open source community after valve wouldn't support the game anymore - that is if they give up, if they are smart, they will not give up. But something tells me if Gabe is a real dumb ass, which he might be if it just slipped out of his hands pretty much, then maybe he would cancel the project and go back home to sitting in front of the tv with a big juicy mcdonalds hamburger and a table full of food. But if hes smart, he will continue work on the project. So i'm just gonna state this, if you're going to argue about who is right and who isn't, thats not the thing to argue about, everyone is right in some way.. So hey, save the trouble of having to argue about it yourself and discuss it instead.

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TO at 7:20 9/10/2003Why on earth do you care if a companies work is ruined, its not like its the end of the world. I think your a frustrated lil boy cant a woman so you have to resort to the polygons models in games since your mom banned all the porn urls.TO at 10:13 9/10/2003bling bling is a real word now, go look it up in the latest Oxford Dictionory you clown because earlier this year, they put it as a real word. It seems I got you under your skin from my first post. hahahahahaha, look at your silly weak replys. personality disorder, dangerous to the those around me, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, nice try bud to get under my skin but im 1 of those people that dont give a rats what you say. I suggest you go back to praising Gabes fat ass and his beloveded HL2 before you hurt yourself. sorry valve but its time to file for bankruptcy and its time to cancel HL2 so the lil nerdlets will cry and whine like lil babies who havent had there diapers changed.

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I don't mind the delays at all (gives me more time to get money for an upgrade), and I could care less about the source code and the hacker, but why do people feel the need to Satanize Valve for what has happened? Valve has never done anything bad to gamers personally, and the only thing they're trying to do is to entertain their fans in the best way possible. Mark my words; these same hypocrites who are badmouthing Valve will be the first ones lining up in front of their electronics store to buy the game, gushing like fanboys about how great this game is/will be.

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This sucks big time!I'm sure that, if Valve would see this 'thief', they would surely bump his ass full of 5.56 bullets!!This proves how shitty open-source is. DAMN THIS! DAMN OPEN-SOURCE!If things go very ugly, you could say that there is no more Valve after 2 years :-(

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why buy when I can dl it?. valve has did many to f**k up the community. 1)they made steam and steam just ruined everything 2)they came up with VAC 3)they f**ked up Day of Defeat 4)they f**ked up TFC 5) they f**ked up CS 6)valve are lying to us about how they care for the gamers when all they are is bunch greedy money faggots 7)they made the mom & pop stores go file for bankruptcy.

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If I met the guy who stole the source code. I'd cut off all his fingers :DAnd the fingers of all u theifing wankers who downloaded the betaWHO'LL JOIN ME IN THE CUTTING OFF OF THE FINGERS!!!

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To the d**k who wrote this"man all yall shut the f**k up about the theif he is great u guys are so f**king fay man leave the man aloen im prolly gonna get hl 2 off warez before it s out in stores man just stfu and keep buying games while ill be dl them off the net"Whats your job? where do u work. Tell me. And I'm going to get ur services and then not pay for them :DThats just how gosh darn cool you are. Man, I'm so jelous I'm not u

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you know, it doesn't really matter even IF we download the beta or burn it or f**king sell it or whatever. a new era is dawning, the era of multiplayer, and you won't be able to go multi without an original cd-key. so as far as playing single is ok with you, fine. but i think i'll buy the retail version, for the sake of hl2's counterstrike :)

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I feel sorry for you morons who can't afford your games... Let alone buy the computer you play your games on.Btw, if warez keeps up, companies lose money. For braindead people, that means no more games coming out.

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Personally... this guy is a f**king moron. I admit, i download warez and shit off iMesh and Kazaa... but they are all older games that nobody buys.I've never played HL, and have no interest in the game, however i have reserved CS: Condition Zero...Ripping something after it is released is somewhat bearable. But stealing code to release a POORLY WORKING BETA is another. All you did was f**k over H-L 2 and hurt the gaming industry that much.All you "hardcore gamers" are a bunch of cheap faggots. All you guys are doing is leeching off the gaming industry. You are parasites to gaming and their respective companies.Get the f**k off your computers and get jobs and buy the real things. Do you part for society.

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I will never download this source code, or E3 demo levels, I believe that most true gamers will folow example. valve is one of the few games companys that actually care about gamers unlike are good friend EA. I think its sad that so many games companys are being swindled like this. Soon companys wont want to make pc games through fear that no profit will be made.

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Number 1Here are words from the "leaker""There were a ton of rumors the past couple days about the existence of a leaked, playable Half-Life 2 beta, but thankfully those stories have been confirmed to be completely false."LEAKER SAYS:Well, I hope nobody believed this rumor. Who would actually be good enough to get the source, but forget the game ? To myg0t: this is too big for you to take credit :P- Anonymous leakerI hope u rot in hell biatch!!!!!! oh and i found some more wordsWell, this one here is Half-Life and Counter-Strike forRegarding Half.Life.2.Beta.Patch1 ANON.tar:Ok, the last release was my mistake. I thought I didn'tintegrate these patches yet, but that was proved being wrong.Sorry for the non working patches, i didnt intend to waste allthis preciousbandwidth.WOOOO BIG MAHN!Regarding Half.Life.2.Pre.Gold-ANON:This is fake, and I will never give out info about my releasesin public.THIS GUY THINKS HES ROUGH!LAST WORDS FROM THE LEAKER/HACKERWell, I forgot to update you with the freshest stuff from Valvesoftware.Detonator-52.13-ANON got leaked today, its the new NVidiadrivers for HL2, though i have no fancy video card to test the driver on. Btw., for those of you still thinking -ANON is a group, i have to say it isnt. Its just Anonymous. To all those saying HL2 was delayed because of the hacking action, ill just remind you that what was leaked is what Valve has, nothing more and nothing less, so its pretty good to understand it wasnt finished yet.Also I'd like to point out the E3 was one big fake by Valve. Ever tried to kill that soldier in physicstown ? Notice the door will still get kicked ? No scripted sequences ? To everyone saying this is no Beta: I'd like to point out

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i cant believe this asshole is doing this. he's ruining valve and hl-2 in doing this. but the question is... WHY IS HE RUINING THE SINGLE MOST ANTICIPATED VIDEO GAME OF ALL TIME? !?!? THERE HAS TO BE A POINT!!!!

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valve is NOT going to be ruined by 15 unfinished levels being released. the sniper rifle isn't in thier yet, they ak doesnt work at all (if your even bored enough to find out how to get it, the mp5 doesn't work, thier are plenty of weapons alone that don't exist in the game even. No one needs to worry about this ruining valve, out of the 35 hours it is estimated to beat the game, it'll take you 30 minutes tops to play through the beta (thats including level loading times and crashes)And to Mr. Beta_Champion, for the record the only unscripted sequence they talked about was the movement in AI in that 1 scene where they were fighting on the street. Phystown is scripted movement by movement like many other levels, they never said none of the levels had no scripts, they just said the AI chose when to move forward or if it was suicide to try and get to the next car in the road for cover. Thier needs to be a script or waypoint to guide all your teammates to where they need to go, just how they get thier wasn't scripted. If their wasn't wasn't they would all just sit wherever they were spawned! i can't defend phystown though, that really was a dissapointment, in the beta the propeller blade won't even spin when you flip its little switch. you gotta shoot it with the grav gun, and the barrel thats supposed to explode and send a flaming car into the zombies didn't go boom at all, it just went tang and fell over as my plan failed and was swarmed by zombies and beaten brutally till i had 8 hp left and dropped 3 grens at my feet to take all the bastards with me! sorry got carried away thier....

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hahaha this is all really egg on valves face. they were going to release at the end of september but this stolen versions shows it was not ready by a mile and SUPRISE the release date slips by a long way.if HL2 is really a great game this beta(?) will not hurt it 1 bit, dont be so stupid.what i really find hilarious is how everyone looks up to valve as some gaming gods. they wrote 1 great game (Half Life) but that doesnt mean they can do it again. flashy fx do NOT make a game fun.so lets just wait and see if they can make lightning strike twice or if the hype and their egos are over-inflated.

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shut up shut up dipshits wtf, get ovet it nobody needs your opinion wtf is wrong with you, its does not matter if u downloaded the game already or u didn’t it does not matter if ur cop will run it or not nobody cares shut the f**k up, it does not matter if u like doom better then this go post on the f**king doom related forum, shut up, nobody cares ur a no life anyway, get over the subject already, value will figure out what to do by them self’s and ur stupid 3 words about it will not change the course of action this topic is god knows how many days old, get on with it. Plus the guy who did this sure does not care about what you say about him or what you did, so shut the f**k up wtf is ur problem, u wish you would have the brain capacity to do what he did.shut upshut upthis topic is over!

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Fact 1) HL2 would have been delayed anyway.Fact 2) Virtually everyone who downloaded the beta will buy the gameFact 3) As anyone who has the beta knows, the E3 sequence (which Valve claimed was not scripted) was, in fact, scripted.

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valve is probably delaying HL2 because they want to change the game, because of the hacker, he/she released the source code, which is really just the game. So i'm guessing VALVE is changing the game, alot. Isn't that reasonable??

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No, it's not reasonable, because what the hacker released (apparantly what Valve had done) was no where near being gold and the game was never gonna make it's December deadline. This is a bullshit excuse Valve is using. If they wanted to go back and change stuff, there would be a December 2004 release date

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Anonymousat 13:35 14/10/2003...and Ice, you bitched more than any other post I've seen, you're the one that can't let it goi did not bitch i tried to open ur eyes on how pointless this discussion is and how most of the people who posted here don’t make any valid point at all and base all of their posts on things they have no way of knowing. the end

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