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Re:The boy who stole Half Life 2 source code (2011) by PavlovsCat on Monday June 02, 2014 @10:51AM (#7833790)
Did the leaking of the source code lead to competing games springing up, which cut into the profits of Valve, or any other damage?
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Re:The boy who stole Half Life 2 source code (2011) by owlmanatt on Monday June 02, 2014 @11:33AM (#7834008)
No, but it's easy to say that with the benefit of hindsight.

Nobody knew everything would turn out OK back before HL2 was released.

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