Adam "amckern" Mckern wrote:
will there ever be a gold, with steam distro, and all?
Yes. Once Vivendi accepts a "bug free" release candidate, the game will go Gold. After that, the Gold master will be sent to mass production, then shipped to retail outlets and purchased by grubby little Half-Life fans. My understanding is that Valve would get in quite a bit of hot water with Vivendi if they made the game available through Steam before Vivendi had accepted a release candidate and it has gone Gold.
Whether or not Valve may release a Steam version BEFORE the retail version has a chance to hit the store shelves is questionable, but my guess is that, in the contract, Sierra (now Vivendi) stipulated that the Steam version can not be made available for public download until the retail version has been shipped to stores (otherwise Vivendi, the distributors and the retailers stand to lose a LARGE chunk of cash due to the only available source of the game being Steam).
-- Jeffrey "botman" Broome
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