OMFG! Its about time!

[papa_giorgio]

Straight from the horses mouth is news that we can expect to see Half-Life 2 go gold on Monday, the 30th of August, 2004!

Well just have to wait and see.

[swedetech]

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we'll see about that....

[evangelion]

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I'm preloading it over Steam right now.

I feel the time is near.

[peloquin]

i'll be holding my breath

[superdave]

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What's the definition of going Gold exactly? I always assumed that meant it's ready for productiion.

[evangelion]

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What's the definition of going Gold exactly? I always assumed that meant it's ready for productiion.

Saying that a game has "gone Gold" means that the current release candidate has been tested enough to ensure that it has a minimum amount of bugs and whatever glaring problems they were working on are fixed. This release candidate is now concidered the "Gold Master." It is then sent off to a manufacturing facility were it is mass produced as quickly as possible. It usually ends up on store shelves about 1-2 weeks after being certified gold.

Hope this helps.

[tiddles]

haha
so i guess it's not like with albums then

[FASSTEDDIE]

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Can't wait Hope so!!

[BeatMonkey]

I've been eagerly awaiting the release of this game for a very long time. I even bought a 128mb card in preperation for the game a while back, that has since gone bad. Time to upgrade once again!

[demonAfro]

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What's the definition of going Gold exactly? I always assumed that meant it's ready for productiion.

IIRC the name is due to the final version being burned onto a gold dye cd (gold master), which supposedly lasts longer.

[nightfly]

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I'm Preloading HL2 now off Steam, bout a third done. When it's released they let you activate it (the download is encrypted) if you pay. Not a bad system really

[evangelion]

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I'm Preloading HL2 now off Steam, bout a third done. When it's released they let you activate it (the download is encrypted) if you pay. Not a bad system really

Not bad at all. I tried out Steam before but all that was available was Half-Life, Counter-Strike and all of its million off-shoots. Now with the Counter-Strike: Source beta out and Half-Life 2 on the way it make perfect sense.

No more discs, patches, no-cd cracks or any of that BS. I hope more companies get the clue and offer something similar to this cause it is extremely promising.

[nightfly]

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Yeah, you can also download all the other games you've activated (via entering your cd key), so if you lose, say, your original HL disc it's not a problem if you've got a reasonable connection.

The hl2 preload isn't currently the whole game, only ~500mb, I expect we'll be waiting several weeks/months still.

[papa_giorgio]

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Hmmmmm...



I just hope its true!

[asdf_admin]

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