7th October 2003, 8:27 PM
I don't think the guy did it to try to blackmail them. It was most likely a fan who wanted to find out all the latest info on the game, and just happened to get lucky with the source code. If I stumbled across source code for a game like that, you better believe I would love to have it. You could learn SO MUCH from studying it. The guy probably never imagined they would delay the game for this, I wouldn't have expected it either. I mean, it's not exactly a foreign concept to give out your source code. Open Source is pretty popular, and I can certainly understand not wanting to give out your code, but it's not the end of the world.
The code is already gone, so changing it doesn't fix anything. It's not like now the thief can't sell it. Nobody cares if it's the real final code for Half Life 2, it's good code that works well. I don't get it.
The code is already gone, so changing it doesn't fix anything. It's not like now the thief can't sell it. Nobody cares if it's the real final code for Half Life 2, it's good code that works well. I don't get it.