Off-Topic, but interesting: Half Life 2 source code leak!

DominionsFan · #1 October 8th, 2003, 08:58 AM

You will crap your pants now..
Half Life 2 ALHPA is released..

http://66.201.243.169/release.php3?releaseid=84209

OMFG! This is so annoying...Piracy is taking over the world.

[ October 08, 2003, 07:59: Message edited by: DominionsFAN ]

Mortifer · #2 October 8th, 2003, 09:30 AM

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Originally posted by DominionsFAN:
You will crap your pants now..
Half Life 2 ALHPA is released..

http://66.201.243.169/release.php3?releaseid=84209

OMFG! This is so annoying...Piracy is taking over the world.

UH! WOW! This means that Half Life 2 (Alpha) is out as warez?!?!?!?!??! The original game wont be out for at least a half year!

LordArioch · #3 October 8th, 2003, 05:19 PM

From what little I know of it the "alpha" isn't all that functional. I could be wrong I guess...but I think the source code leak probably was worse for valve. This might ruin some of their suspense but I can't see too many people trying to learn as much about HL2 as possible, deciding the suspense is ruined, and then not buying it.

It is rather annoying how piracy seems to be taking over...but I bet they mind this much less than having their source stolen.

Mortifer · #4 October 8th, 2003, 06:00 PM

I just checked out the ISOnews Boards...and the Users there are playing with this HL2 Alpha and all of them are amazed by the physics of the engine. This means that the ALPHA is playable...

LordArioch · #5 October 8th, 2003, 06:18 PM

I still think it hurts valve less than the source code leak...because there's a difference between the game running and it being full release Version half-life 2. Actually apparently the person who released the "Alpha" said that he didnt mean for the source code to be spread, which at least makes me less annoyed at him.

Yes, the physics engine is the one thing that tempted me...I'd like to download the source and look at how it works and download the alpha and watch it in action. But since both are highly illegal I think I'll wait and play Dominions or something else.

I also find it interesting that planethalflife says "UPDATE: Regrettably, there's a good possibility even more stolen content will leak later this week." How would they know it's a good chance? And also more stolen content would be getting close to the actual thing being out. What happened, Valve? It seems like the hacker was just taking gigabyte after gigabyte of data...

It'd actually be pretty funny if there was released a Version that was pretty much complete and didn't run through steam. Sad for valve...but amusing nonetheless.