UFO, theres a chance you might wanna stop saying "Stupid thief!" and start saying "Stupid Valve!"
For the past few days theres been a rumor circulating that VALVE triggered this leak. They did it on purpose. It has already been confirmed that Valve was planning on delaying HL2 EVEN BEFORE the leak happened. Think how much that would've pissed off the gaming community? So, whats an easy way to get the gamers off your backs? BLAME THE DELAY ON SOMETHING ELSE! As well as giving them access to a not-quite-complete slightly buggy version of the game itself. Just think of HOW it was stolen. This just dosn't happen. It's so dumb and over the top. I have to congradulate whoever made up the story of how it was stolen though. They didn't leave areas blank, even created fake logs and such. Good job dumbasses!
Fact is, Valve won't loose even 1% of their end sales from this. Everyone I know who has it is still going to buy it, including myself. I mean, its not 100% release version anyways. But really, probly less than 1% of the people who would've bought the game are actually going to get their hands on this leak. End result: HL2 will still have HUGE sales numbers, and Valve will be rolling in the cash.
You can read this guys theory at: www.somethingawful.com
This IS a comedy site, but hes serious about this particular article.
It was at the top of the page but probably isn't now so scroll down and look for it, or search for it somehow.
SIGNATURE: Stop asking people "whats up" or "hows it goin", you know you don't give a sh*t. And noone cares how you're doing either.
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