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| Thread ID: 38296 | 2003-10-03 03:24:00 | Half Life 2 source code leaked! | DangerousDave (697) | Press F1 |
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| 180020 | 2003-10-03 15:29:00 | > so what could the guy who stole the code actually do > with it? If he has the code, doesnt that mean he can re-write the game with his own console and shell kernal? then he can make his own versions or produce versions that have virus's in them or things to that extent? i always thought that they woudl do things like this for their own personal benefit or to create havock amongst others. |
vk_dre (195) | ||
| 180021 | 2003-10-03 20:11:00 | As DangerousDave said, they could now sell it to other game developers (which would be stupid, because honest developers would then report that to Valve) or develop their own games using the game engine. Somehow I doubt that this is a hoax, because if it is, Valve will have made a lot of news reporters look rather stupid. |
agent (30) | ||
| 180022 | 2003-10-03 20:54:00 | Sounds like a hoax to me. Either that or they're getting even stupider to make a public fuss about something you'd expect them to try and cover up | Greg S (201) | ||
| 180023 | 2003-10-03 21:29:00 | Yes, the goddam preview pane, not is it only annoying but it is unsecure and it will open up spam and probably show you images you don't want to see | ilikelinux (1418) | ||
| 180024 | 2003-10-03 21:30:00 | The leak has been CONFIRMED by Gabe Newell. Although Game Developers may not use the engine, they may steal 'ideas' from the code in which they use in the code.... the sort of things they would previously only be able to do if they bought the engine for a large amount of money www.theinquirer.net Another problem is crackers who are willing to use the code to make cheat programs which are impossible to detect etc etc, as since they know how the program works, they can easily make programs which fit into the code with little detection. Someone with the code basically said it was really just spoilers for the game. So maybe not much is being missed out on. |
DangerousDave (697) | ||
| 180025 | 2003-10-03 23:00:00 | Can´t believe people are still using Outlook/Outlook Express with all the security problems these programs have!! Please people use something else!!!! Foxmail springs to mind. |
rmcb (164) | ||
| 180026 | 2003-10-03 23:09:00 | or even Mozilla Thunderbird :) | segfault (655) | ||
| 180027 | 2003-10-03 23:39:00 | Ahhh great...so half life 2 will be plagued by thousands of cheaters as well. Stupid newbies.. | PoWa (203) | ||
| 180028 | 2003-10-03 23:51:00 | Theoretically it barely makes any difference seeing as the code will be under copyright and any company which brought out a game using it would be find themselves crushed by a lawsuit pretty quickly. It will help other developers get ideas from their engine though. Will also aid in the porting of the game to other platforms. Anyone else think it's good that they are being so honest about how it all happened? |
-=JM=- (16) | ||
| 180029 | 2003-10-04 00:53:00 | i agree JM it is good the see a company admit how the screwed up :) Im not that big-a-fan of HL because i play Q2 but its still a interesting game to play :D |
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