Dota 2 leaked, and it includes HL2: Episode 3 code

Ouch. Doesn't really matter though if its gonna be free to play soon anyway. i.e. Its not like they are going to lose "sales".
 
It doesn't really surprise me if anything gets leaked. Really glad thought that Valve seems to be aiming towards a F2P model for DotA2. It will really help a lot of the original DotA community to make the switch.

I just hope Valve gives us some more info on how they plan to do the beta.
 
Looking at the article and the shop code. This is scary. They are going to be the exact same as HoN. But i think valve will have the upper hand with the store in seeing what the HoN comunity lost out in. Otherwise, the episode could actually be expected. Wasnt really surprised there...
 
This is not good. Leaked games like these have caused developers in the past to delay the release even further. Wasn't that the case with one of the Half Life games? Someone also leaked early code and the developer completely pulled it and started over - delaying the release by more than a year. (well, I remember something like that anyways). I suppose that's the personality type of most gamers. Instant gratification and a complete lack of patience prevails - and ultimately they don't care if it's a "cut your nose to spite your face" situation. Morons.
 
This is why we cannot have nice things...

Pr⊕phet said:
If you don't protect your IP then you deserve the leaks, yet to see a leak from blizzard...
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That's taking it a bit far, don't you think? Nobody deserves to be a victim of crime. That's like saying you deserve to have your wife raped in front of you and your kids murdered because you chose to live in Jhb.

Simple fact remains that we share the world we live in with a percentage of scum.
 
Voicy said:
This is why we cannot have nice things...



That's taking it a bit far, don't you think? Nobody deserves to be a victim of crime. That's like saying you deserve to have your wife raped in front of you and your kids murdered because you chose to live in Jhb.

Simple fact remains that we share the world we live in with a percentage of scum.
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IP leak is not same as rape btw.

Riddle me this how come blizzard had no leaks up to now?

If you are careless don't expect a nice day.

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The last leak that Valve had was from an employee - you can't blame a company from trusting their employees. As most of us know, when it comes to theft and hacking, it usually happens from within the company more often than not. Let's just hope that Valve doesn't throw their toys out of their cot like last time and postpone the release of both titles indefinitely. To bring this topic into a more real-world perspective and to tie in with what you guys are saying, there will always be some scumbag, gomgat, degenerate moron that spoils something for everything else.

That's the reason why you're supposed to turn your baby from side-to-side in its cot now and then during the early infant stages. Some mothers don't know this and end up raising broken babies, who then grow up to steal IPs - and sniff glue.
 
Well I'm guessing that the client will have to be played through steam. If this is the case it's really dumb to download this as you will lose your steam account and all you games/money spend on steam.
People could probably create new account just for this in any case, but I won't do it as playing a game that is not finished yet is pointless and will spoil the fun for when it does come out.
 
PlainStack said:
Well I'm guessing that the client will have to be played through steam. If this is the case it's really dumb to download this as you will lose your steam account and all you games/money spend on steam.
People could probably create new account just for this in any case, but I won't do it as playing a game that is not finished yet is pointless and will spoil the fun for when it does come out.
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+1 and reason i am not looking at all the in game vidoes or screen shots
 
What I'd like to know is, why is there code with the client?

I mean, when we give software to be tested then it doesn't include any code. Only the developers have the code and I can't see any reason whatsoever that the code has to be given away too. Was the client and the source code leaked by a developer?

Or is this just a list of source code names found in the client for some reason? Ugh I should probably follow the links and go find out.
 
Vleis said:
Ehm, you can't have a game or for that matter any piece of software installed on your PC without code. The code is the game and the client is just a program to install the code onto your system and update all the appropriate registries. If you just go the your steam directory (/Program Files x86/Steam) you will find all the source code of the games you have currently installed. You can think of it almost as the client being a .rar and the code being all the contents of the client which then gets extracted onto you drive.
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Vleis, are you being serious or are you joking?

That's not how it works. I'm a programmer. The closest that it will come to what you said, is if the code is written in any of the .NET languages for instance and then not obfuscated.

The files listed are C++ files (.cpp) and after compiling it's object code (compiled code, ie binary files) (though managed C++ could have been used, but I doubt it). The code is not like you said "the game and the client just a program to install the code on your system". The client is the executable that was created by building the source code using a compiler.

And to continue using your example. If you go to your Steam directory you will not find source code, you will find binary files. Like the executable files and game data such as graphics, sound and scripts, very often compressed or included in single files.

I think you should read about compiling:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiler

I hope all I wrote now makes sense because I had to do it quickly unfortunately.

And maybe you should go read about open source as well. Because the way you are describing source code, you are making all games open source.
 
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