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Titolo: [OT] Ulteriori conferme per il lancio di Half-Life 2 a Settembre...

Essendo molti gli interessati al lancio di questo giochillo (anche
"grazie" al coupon in bundle con le schede XT di ATI), sono giunte
alcune interessanti notizie sul prodotto di Valve.
Per chi volesse saperne di più:
http://www.edengames.net/news.php?itemid=1294
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http://www.edengames.net/news.php?itemid=1294
da Rage3d-forum:
I guess we now know why nVidia was unwilling to pay Valve the cash they
wanted to partner and how ATI won that coup.
nVidia was smart enough to know the progress of the game and ATI either was
ignorant of the progress or was shifty enough to shortchange its customers
if only to have Gordan Freeman on the front of the box and the promise of
"Half-LIfe 2 FREE." Hell, I remember HardOCP going so far in their initial
review of the XT series as to proclaim the game was to show up in a couple
of weeks and that information could only have come from ATI...
After nVidia refuses the cash that Newell needed for that condo in Florida,
ATI gives them cash in exchange for some PR. Newell delivers in spades,
lambasting nVidia as the evil demon that is crushing the industry.
Hellbinder does the Gollum dance from the end of Return of the King after he
got the ring. At this point, we have a host of ATI fiends/fanatics
proclaiming that only Valve knows what its talking about. Epic, id,
Monolith, all partners of nVidia, are wrong now because the true prophet of
DX9 gaming has spoken! A benchmark is said to come in a month, anyone
remember that? A benchmark to prove those bar graphs that Newell had at the
time, remember?
People took Gabe on his word because his word was golden and he was still
saying (at this point) that Half-Life 2 would show up within weeks of that
benchmark. Heh. Newell's word is now clearly trash, rubbish, worthless. He
told people who visited Valve within weeks of the 9/30th release date that
it was coming. I remember the interview with the guy visiting Valve that
month.
So now that we know Newell is a liar and an opportunist, do we take on his
word the benchmarks he showed us on how Half-Life 2 performs when he can't
even produce the benchmark he promised to give us to see for ourselves? Or
was it enough to say it at the time, whip the ATI fanatics into a frenzy,
and then conveniently forget to release the benchmark to back his claims up?
Was that what ATI paid him for?
Or was ATI simply so ignorant on the progress of the game that they paid an
OEM contract for as not to know the game was a very long way away from
release?
Is ATI that stupid with its cash or is ATI complicit with using the coupon
to make its board look better than the competition? Even as late as November
and December people were making claims that it was a great deal to get
Half-Life 2 as part of the cost of the XT board, but if its a year
afterward, Valve can be guaranteed that over half of the people who bought
those boards will have lost that little piece of paper.

 da Rage3d-forum:
Non č niente ;o)
Leggiti questo:
http://www.forumplanet.com/planethalflife/topic.asp?fid=6549&tid=1352802
E' molto piů pesante ;o)
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 E' molto piů pesante ;o)
si', lo conoscevo.