Uhm, were you here for that HLDS release that was packaged with a virus?
Their main compiling machine had a virus on it that went in to the windows
HLDS release. A 'lucky' person got the HLDS release just before it was
officially released and told Valve this... So... What
testing/verifying/crosschecking? ^_^ (I was up until after I think 4AM that
morning because of that delay! Took them 4 hours to recompile/upload HLDS!)

~

> and rebuilding. It needs to be tested, verified, cross-checked,
> made sure that it doesn't affect other parts, made sure that this
> and only this change is in the rebuild, etc. For a company a
> software bug is not just changing one line of code but much more
> expensive. We're lucky that Valve isn't Microsoft, because for
> them one small bug is even much, much more expensive. :)


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