Oh yeah. It's a complete farce.
For every high there has to be a crushing down. It's been like this through Half-Life 2's development all the way since September 2003. To be fair, we can't blame Valve for this, but whoever lied has destroyed my sense of anticipation for the game now. Which was probably their intention. To do that to people.
When everyone found out and huge disappointment reared it was bound to take the wind out of Half-Life 2's sails as things slowly gathered speed.
The trouble is, how can any of us from this point onward take future information we're given by Valve, Vivendi or whoever and consider it as legit now?
People are just going to laugh at another (real or not) gold annoucement, release date or pre-load. And that's a disaster for Valve. People aren't going to take news at face value anymore - This was probably the last straw for most. It also means the likes of IGN, Gamespot and Eurogamer are going to be incredibly cynical when it comes to such reporting in the future too. Things wouldn't be so bad if Valve would just shut everyone up and offer an official confirmation through a statement issued to the media, but no... Everything has to be complete silence.
It isn't their fault, but this has really damaged the curve to Half-Life 2's release build up.
After reading the game is being put into production... And then to discover oh no, it's not...
I'm kind of apathetic to the whole situation now.
For every high there has to be a crushing down. It's been like this through Half-Life 2's development all the way since September 2003. To be fair, we can't blame Valve for this, but whoever lied has destroyed my sense of anticipation for the game now. Which was probably their intention. To do that to people.
When everyone found out and huge disappointment reared it was bound to take the wind out of Half-Life 2's sails as things slowly gathered speed.
The trouble is, how can any of us from this point onward take future information we're given by Valve, Vivendi or whoever and consider it as legit now?
People are just going to laugh at another (real or not) gold annoucement, release date or pre-load. And that's a disaster for Valve. People aren't going to take news at face value anymore - This was probably the last straw for most. It also means the likes of IGN, Gamespot and Eurogamer are going to be incredibly cynical when it comes to such reporting in the future too. Things wouldn't be so bad if Valve would just shut everyone up and offer an official confirmation through a statement issued to the media, but no... Everything has to be complete silence.
It isn't their fault, but this has really damaged the curve to Half-Life 2's release build up.
After reading the game is being put into production... And then to discover oh no, it's not...
I'm kind of apathetic to the whole situation now.
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