8th October 2003, 11:51 PM
That's certainly an interesting take on it. So your theory, as I take it, is that Valve's reason for the delay is basically a lie since they were going to delay it anyway for other reasons? Considering Nintendo's "creative truth telling" at times (like when they said on their site that "developers were so shocked at the N64's power they couldn't take full advantage of it" rather than "we designed the system poorly so they had trouble programming for it"), I wouldn't put it past a game company to do that...
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)