Half Life 2 Goes Gold on Monday

[Kunaak]

straight from Gabe.

http://www.hl2fallout.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=4221&st=0&#entry76575

[Dissolved]

thats great news..

hopefully it will be playable then

[texuspete00]

Yep, just saw this as well. Its damn near 6AM now... been up playing Doom3 so I can finish up in anticipation. :D

[Kunaak]

seems people are wondering if his account was hacked...
and the announcement may be bunk.
guess everyones waiting for confirmation from Gabe again :(

http://www.csnation.net/

[masterofpuppets]

Yea. I heard the "gold" rumour was fake as well. Check out this thread (http://cariad.co.za/twhl/forums.php?pgt=1&action=viewthread&id=4501&pg=1) from a HL mapping site about hl2. Especially the last few posts.

[texuspete00]

Fallouts home page confirms 'hack' now :(

At least not even a day has passed with false hopes.

[drcrawn]

Originally posted by Kunaak
straight from Gabe.

http://www.hl2fallout.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=4221&st=0&#entry76575

damn, just woke up and thought I'd be the one posting this!!! You beat me to it Kunaak :slobber:

ah crap its fake!

[Noktar]

Hope the Europe Release is near :)

[drcrawn]

Originally posted by texuspete2k2
Fallouts home page confirms 'hack' now :(

At least not even a day has passed with false hopes.

well said, well said

so...anyone know when that FarCry 1.2 patch is out? LOL

[3rd-Dimension]

never. next one going to be 1.3 from what i hear.

[drcrawn]

"After a close scrutiny of Gabe Newell's account history on the forums, we've come to the conclusion that the gold post is a fake... After one crazy night of theories, server mayhem and IP tracing, we've finally gotten to the bottom of this mess. In a twist of hilarity, it seems that Gabe Newell's account password was set to 'gaben'. Person x guessed this and made the "going gold on Monday" post which we've heard so much about. The user (who we believe is the same person x) then made this post just minutes ago using Gabe's account:

Maybe he shouldn't have used 'gaben' for his password. Come on Gabe, you could of [sic] thought of something better than that

After a quick double-check, it seems that this was exactly what happened."

[drcrawn]

Originally posted by 3rd-Dimension
never. next one going to be 1.3 from what i hear.

lol, i know, but i actually ran the 1.2 patch for a while with sm3.0 beta, until I got sick of all of major major bugs...

my desktop was a huge artifact screen shot for awhile with 1.2 patch, lol

[Iridium192_217]

Valve really needs to get some security. Their company is a joke.

[Lithan]

That's not a security issue. That's just a stupid forums password issue. I mean who here really creates difficult passwords for forums? God knows I quiver in terror at the thought of some snot-nosed, pimply-faced twelve year old going around posting about "Ownzer"ing my account.

[texuspete00]

This door he left open does effect the "as the web turns" drama and he's not the only guy working on the game. Me and you aren't worried about our accounts probably because we dont care what people think nor are we a target... If he doesnt want to be the laughing stock for his own sake, then for the sake of the greater good at valve. Doesnt it suck working for a dumb-tit because of that fact alone?

It is a little funny when people call it a "hack." :D But I'm not Gabe Newell and even my password is not THAT lame. Anways, yeah who cares, but if nothing else it's funny and is so because it was at least a little shall we say RETARDED given his status as a representative of a firm. People repeatedly posting "ownzoring" would have been that more funny to us, but not so for valve.

[shrae]

Given Valve's tenuous internal security history, I'm not sure I would be that surprised if Gabe Newell used "gaben" for all his passwords :rolleyes:

[drcrawn]

los altos? u gotta be kidding me...what schools did u go to?
thats my hood yo! lol

[Iridium192_217]

Originally posted by shrae
Given Valve's tenuous internal security history, I'm not sure I would be that surprised if Gabe Newell used "gaben" for all his passwords :rolleyes:

:lol:

my point exactly

[shrae]

Originally posted by Iridium192_217
:lol:

my point exactly

Yeah seriously, I mean... getting your source code hacked? That's why so many people figured it was a conspiracy. That kind of lacking security is just outrageous... unheard of among software devs.

I swear, anytime I hear anything about Valve or see rabid HL fanboys running around, I am just going to start spamming the threads with "gaben".

Originally posted by drcrawn
los altos? u gotta be kidding me...what schools did u go to?
thats my hood yo! lol

I worked in the Bay Area for a while after I went to Stanford - never went to high school or anything there. I grew up down the coast in Monterey. I interviewed a couple high school kids from the Bay Area for my old college, Columbia University... mostly from Homestead High. Where'd you go to school?

It's a great area, although I'm not a big fan of California. I still have an apartment there with a roomate, but taxes + outrageous cost of living have sent me running back to Las Vegas.

[9mmCensor]

Gabe should read Mitnick's _The Art of Deception_.

Humans really are the weakest point in security.