It turns out, Half Life's success at launch might all be down to the accidentally leaked source code on the Day One disk.
It turns out that Half-Life’s initial success around its launch was all an accident; a short-sighted mistake on behalf of the publisher, Sierra, which accidentally shipped part of the game’s source code as part of a Day One disk. This comes from new information illuminated by Monica Harrington, former chief marketing officer at Valve, who wrote about her experiences working at the company towards the end of the millennium.
The product was still a month or two from completion and no one had played the final game, but the early buzz for the first portion of the game was hugely promising.” While Valve went on to release the source code for Half-Life in 2002, this wasn’t the first time it had been seen. Thanks to the Sierra misstep, the games industry had already fallen in love with it. Monica went on to mention that she had been pre-seeding the game closely with a reporter from the Wall St.
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