Half-Life 2 Going Gold?

@ 2004/08/28
Is Half-Life 2 going gold on Monday? According to Gabe Newell, it is.

Newell announced in a forum post on Half-Life 2 Fallout, that the game was indeed going gold on Monday. Very brief and to the point with no details. Newell is known to post most of his community news in these forums, so there seems to be little doubt it is a legitimate forum post

Comment from DUR0N @ 2004/08/29
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Originally posted by kristos
You said it best duron :grin:
Don't get me wrong, I'm eager to play HL2. But i'm also patient, and since the preloading has begun we'll have HL2 soon enough
Comment from jmke @ 2004/08/29
uhm.. there's no easier code to quote then vBulletin

[ quote ] text to quote [ / quote ]

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text to quote

this post is still valid, look at the question mark at end of the title "?" and follow the link
Comment from SuAside @ 2004/08/29
beuh why the **** cant i edit my post :s

kinda doing 100 things at the same time and it's full of typos

it should read: "i pulled it off a post i made on another forum. there, it obviously works fine... the [M]-way to quote sucks... it's ok if you quote someone on the board itself, but if you quote someone from outside the board it sucks donkeyballs..."

pompidom,
Comment from SuAside @ 2004/08/29
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Originally posted by jmke
learn to quote ffs!
i'm lazy mkay?

i pulled it off a post i made it on another forum. there obviously is workz fine... the [M] way to quote sucks... it's ok if you quote someone on the board itself, but if you quote something from outside the board it sucks donkeyballs

ow yeah, did i tell you i was lazy?
Comment from jmke @ 2004/08/29
learn to quote ffs!
Comment from kristos @ 2004/08/29
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Originally posted by DUR0N
who cares?
You said it best duron :grin:
Comment from DUR0N @ 2004/08/28
who cares? The pre-loading has begun, we'll have to wait another month at most
Comment from SuAside @ 2004/08/28
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Originally Posted by halflife2.net
"Going gold..." Confirmed as a fake
by Icarus @ 9:33am Saturday 28th August, 2004

This morning it was confirmed that the post made concerning Half-Life 2 going gold, orginally thought to be made by Valve's Gabe Newell, was in fact posted by someone that had found his password and used it to post with his account. A Valve employee confirmed it in this thread on the SteamPowered forums.

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Originally Posted by Valve
false.

Do you really think the gold announcement will be made with a 4 word forum post? OMFG will count as four words by itself! :-]

Also, patient is not a word I would use to describe people's manner of waiting.

At any rate, it's 8:18am ... sorry I slept in or I would have stomped sooner. At any other rate, it looks like hl2fallout.com cleared things up a while ago (relatively) with their Fool's Gold post.
Comment from Laagvliegerke @ 2004/08/28
NOFI, jmke, but this message is a little bit misleading
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Is Half-Life 2 going gold on Monday? According to Valve, it is not.
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