Dat niet iedereen even gelukkig met de verhalen van Valve over de vetraging van Half-Life 2 is, is geen nieuws. Je staat echter raar te kijken als je deze afscheidsbrief van de site director van Planet Half-Life leest. De beste man is furieus over de handelswijze van de ontwikkelaar: I am not a fan of Valve anymore. I don't believe a damn thing they say and I'm sick of their bullshit.

Dat heeft dus verder geen uitleg nodig...Two months later, things started to get complicated. In mid-July I heard from multiple reliable sources that Half-Life 2 wasn't going to make 9/30/03. Then I got hold of pretty conclusive evidence that Valve's Doug Lombardi had flat out told print magazines (off the record, of course) to plan on pushing their reviews of Half-Life 2 back to the Holiday i ues. Then in late July, Vivendi announced that Half-Life 2 would be delayed to the holidays. Since I knew the delay was coming, I jumped right on this and confidently reported it as fact.

Unfortunately Valve -- for whatever reason -- refused to own up to the fact that Half-Life 2 was going to be delayed. Gabe made that ridiculous "First time I've heard about this" response, and other sites overreacted and a umed that this meant that Vivendi's announcement was a mistake. This situation was further complicated by Vivendi's backtracking: after Valve e entially refused to confirm the delay news, Vivendi was forced to (kind of) retract their original delay announcement. So tons of people incorrectly a umed this meant HL2 was still coming out on time.[GSI]Fragmaster is nog steeds van mening dat Half-Life 2 een goed spel zal worden, zoals je in deze lange brief, die tevens de fouten van Valve laat zien, kunt lezen. Deze fansite gelooft trouwens dat Half-Life 2 gewoon in 2004 zal uitkomen en dat mensen zich door de quote in het Polygon magazine hebben laten misleiden.