Valve... Delay doesn't even cut it anymore

You know it doesn't even surprise me that Valve would fuck up, well anything anymore. The most recent culprit to the mess-up is the Team Fortress 2 Beta which Valve promised PC gamers who reserved the Orange Box via steam that they would be playing it... yesterday.

Travis whom is a sort of fan of the series and I wouldn't say hardcore because based on his take on the situation he wasn't prepared to kill someone offer the misunderstanding of information. However his unbiased view as a fan is interesting because he sat and sort of observed the hardcore fans simply going ballistic on the forums over the lack of the beta.

He even brought up the point that Valve is once again sort of betraying fans and it simply amazes me that even I myself still love Valve after all of the delays, the lies, the money issues and bundle scams... how can one game seriously make me love this company so much when all Valve does other than putting out the great titles is screw over the actual gamers time and time again.

He went on to point out that Bioshock which he purchased over Steam took a while to unlock and download but after the experiences I have gone through with Half-Life 2 and Episode 1, I am entirely content with getting the Orange Box on the 360, because dammit all I am sick and tired of Steam.

Oh and incase your wondering the Beta is now live, though they didn't do much for the fans in simply announcing it is now live today, they could have possibly made a post about it prior too this whole mishap but they did not.

I recall the other day waiting for the Tony Hawk demo to go on Xbox Live and when it didn't the first thing I did was go to the site and the guy on the Blog had been updating fans the whole day on why it wasn't yet online, just goes to show you how companies handle customer support differently, too bad the new Tony Hawk sucks haha.