HL2 Gold Hoax

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Here is a quote from botman in the HLCoders email forum:


Adam "amckern" Mckern wrote:

> will there ever be a gold, with steam distro, and all?

Yes. Once Vivendi accepts a "bug free" release candidate, the game will
go Gold. After that, the Gold master will be sent to mass production,
then shipped to retail outlets and purchased by grubby little Half-Life
fans. My understanding is that Valve would get in quite a bit of hot
water with Vivendi if they made the game available through Steam before
Vivendi had accepted a release candidate and it has gone Gold.

Whether or not Valve may release a Steam version BEFORE the retail
version has a chance to hit the store shelves is questionable, but my
guess is that, in the contract, Sierra (now Vivendi) stipulated that the
Steam version can not be made available for public download until the
retail version has been shipped to stores (otherwise Vivendi, the
distributors and the retailers stand to lose a LARGE chunk of cash due
to the only available source of the game being Steam).

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Jeffrey "botman" Broome