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The HL2 team rewrote major portions of the Source Engine in response to the hack.

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Why would the leak cause major portions of the engine to need to be rewritten?

Seems more likely that it was a convenient excuse.

I don't know. Ask gaben.

So he can act interested in my question, invite me for a friendly discussion over coffee, and then arrange to put me in a cage? Seems like a terrible idea.

Gosh, Valve must hire great PR. I had completely forgotten their overt evil actions around this incident.

it was used as an excuse, the real reason is that Valve is REALLY slow at developing games.

I wouldn't say they're slow. You wouldn't believe the rate they're adding features to Dota 2, for example. I believe that they're actually quite a small crew with very ambitious projects, and they tend to move around a lot.

Major parts needed rewrite to not make it so easy to develop cheats for the game.

If the hackers would have the source, they would not even need to reverse engineer the engine to build their aimbots/wallhacks.

That does make zero sense.

It was a fear years ago when Quake was open sourced [1]. In Valve's case, the programmers probably had to audit all the source code in order to reduce possible exploits.

[1] http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/finger.pl?id=1&time=1999122...

The bigger issue was that (IIRC) the source for Steam, which wasn't yet launched, was also leaked.

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