They have been working on HL2 for five years now. They set a Sept 30th date for a reason, because whatever stage they were at when they announced it, it was very close to finished. I hope they aren't doing this to give whatever deals they are setting up more time to get ready. I don't want them sitting on this until they have a million copies to ship out like some people do (ie, Matrix). They just better load them on the trucks the second the shrinkwrap hits them and ship them off on a first come, first serve.
Granted, we have Steam now, but Steam can't even handle HL1 mods, let alone the demand for HL2. That sucker is going to crash and burn so fast on the first few days.
And there probably won't be a demo, since that would push back the game even further.
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