I'd say 50.000 dollars. But I could be wrong though :D All in all this is just really awful... :( Did you guys screenshots, movies? Awsome stuff!! </font>[/QUOTE]I did saw that movie...30 mins IIRC

That really really sucks for them I hope they get the people that did it.

The code is worth minimum 7 figures and probably more. Some of the things I saw in the HL2 demo I've never seen anywhere else... millions easy... tens possibly.

Millions easy? I'm not so sure about that... But wat you say about being revolutionary, I second that wholeheartedly. That (indeed, Xen it lasted for like 30 minutes) movie I saw was full of material that made my jaw drop. And when I finally closed my mouth again, it just dropped open again just because I thought about what I saw [img]smile.gif[/img]

think about it this way... a team of programmers has been working on that code for years... there's bound to be lots of tips and tricks that has helped differentiate HL from the other engines out there. I think just looking at the potential advantage it could give a software house trying to break into the 3d FPS market... millions easy.

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Heh, you go Xen!! :D

He! Show me the movie, I wanna see the good stuff!

And if I knew the entire half-life scene was after me I'd be cracking my panties right now!
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[ 10-04-2003, 04:45 AM: Message edited by: Zuvio ]

For a Engine like that? heck, it could go for $500,000 easy.. Just to buy the RIGHTS to license it costs hundreds of thousands.

What I gotta ask is WHY THE HELL did they have the source code open to a network that is connected to the internet?!?! Same goes for the DOD and FBI. Why the hell do they do this?! Crazy... Smells like an internal job to me.

Hope they get the FBI On this, and catch the perp. Hell, it could be another company that stole it... hmmm.

Interesting choice of words because Karma is the name of the UT2003 Engien which it handed out happily early to let developers go nuts with it [img]tongue.gif[/img]

I am starting to woneder if [img]graemlins/choc.gif[/img] might stolen it... [img]graemlins/1ponder.gif[/img] :D

Maybe it is an insider's job... but certainly not one of the key personnels. For the time and effort Valve put into this new engine, they could have made the source code a wee bit secure than this.

Nevertheless, they have learnt thier lesson and any future attempt would not be so easy anymore.