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Monday, September 20 2004

Valve and VU not friends?  by Craig D at 23:20

hl2 From the sounds of things, they haven't been on the best of terms for quite some time.

In court filings, Sierra/VUG says that the current distribution of Half-Life 2 via Steam exceeds the scope of the current software publishing agreement between the two parties. It is apparently seeking the court's assistance in compelling Valve not to use Steam as an avenue of distribution.

On Friday, when asked if Valve was remained intent on making Half-Life 2 available to gamers via Steam, regardless of what was determined on October 8, Lombardi replied, "Yes."


Gamespot has a lengthy article about the issues http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/09/20/news_6107712.html

I really want to add some highly sarcastic comments, but I better not.
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KendoMonkey
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21 September 2004 09:20
Yeah, I read about this last night...I had no idea. I'm kinda with the publisher if they didn't know Steam was going to do this. Except for fan-boy bitching, Steam has the potential to be a very popular medium for distribution.
Scrappy
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21 September 2004 09:25
Oooh another excuse to delay the release of HL2. 'There is no spoon'


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