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More noise than being a constant, never dying, internet meme that haunts the comments when any scrap of news comes out of Valve?At this point valve are just taking the piss. I dont get why people are ok with valve.
If valve got more negative press about leaving there biggest franchise out in the cold and abondoing gamers Im sure they would at least say something.
How valve has handled half life is not acceptable. People need to make more noise about it
The leaked script put it to bed and gave me some closure, at least. One version of the story, but I'll take it.
More noise than being a constant, never dying, internet meme that haunts the comments when any scrap of news comes out of Valve?
The leaked script put it to bed and gave me some closure, at least. One version of the story, but I'll take it.
I don't know whether Valve can't or won't make a more traditional game again, but it doesn't really matter anymore. No hate.
I feel that Valve or more importantly Steam, became too powerful for their own good. There is very little feeling of "humble" left in the places where Valve had more than most companies.
More noise than being a constant, never dying, internet meme that haunts the comments when any scrap of news comes out of Valve?
The leaked script put it to bed and gave me some closure, at least. One version of the story, but I'll take it.
I don't know whether Valve can't or won't make a more traditional game again, but it doesn't really matter anymore. No hate.
I wonder if they're still thinking of making anything in that universe.
At this point valve are just taking the piss. I dont get why people are ok with valve.
If valve got more negative press about leaving there biggest franchise out in the cold and abondoing gamers Im sure they would at least say something.
How valve has handled half life is not acceptable. People need to make more noise about it
Valve made TF3 though. It's called Overwatch.Hype for TF2 Switch and the L4D card game.
Valve made TF3 though. It's called Overwatch.
The Half-life customer base is the foundation stone of Steam. Valve built sustained interest in Steam as a digital platform off the back of that franchise, and a large part of that momentum was generated as a result of Valve talking about taking the series in a purely digital episodic direction as a trilogy to wrap up the HL2 storyline with the argument for (to a pretty skeptical community it has to be said), being shorter games versus your typical expansion but with quicker development times The whole 'Valve Time' meme sprang into existence out of the fact that Valve consistently managed to blow their own estimates when it came to delivery. However despite episode 2 ending on a cliffhanger and having blown the deadline for episode 3, instead of offering the customer base a revised ETA like any normal business would do Valve just went radio silent, and have actively avoided discussing it ever since. Now regardless of how people might try and frame that narrative ('Entitled gamers' 'Valve owe you nothing' etc) from a customer/business perspective, that's not a good look.You realize we're talking about video games, right? Jesus Christ, dude.
At this point valve are just taking the piss. I dont get why people are ok with valve.
If valve got more negative press about leaving there biggest franchise out in the cold and abondoing gamers Im sure they would at least say something.
How valve has handled half life is not acceptable. People need to make more noise about it
Can't Valve get some external developer to develop Half-Life 3? But I guess at this point no matter how good it will be. It will never live up to the hype. I'm sure there are still a ton of talented people at Valve that can make an amazing Half-Life 3 if they do it internally
Unless they find a way to turn it into a "game as a service" I doubt they would even be interested in doing it, even if it's developed by an external teamCan't Valve get some external developer to develop Half-Life 3? But I guess at this point no matter how good it will be. It will never live up to the hype. I'm sure there are still a ton of talented people at Valve that can make an amazing Half-Life 3 if they do it internally
Unless they find a way to turn it into a "game as a service" I doubt they would even be interested in doing it, even if it's developed by an external team
Valve realized that they get more money from people buying hats and weapon skins than from a single player game that people just buy once
You realize we're talking about video games, right? Jesus Christ, dude.
You know, I agree with you. It seems unprofessional to me to just leave the story unfinished like that. I'd be more understanding if maybe the game didn't sell that well but Half-Life is hugely popular and made Valve a lot of money. How do you tell 10 million+ fans "Eh, we just don't feel like finishing the story so you'll have to use your imagination." That's very lazy and Valve is a quality developer so I expect better from them than that. If nothing else I wish they'd at least tell everyone what's going on. Even if they have no plans to finish the sequel I'd rather know that for sure so we don't have to keep wondering.
"We're also still making games"
"We're also still making money from selling other people games"
There fixed for you
I must've missed the part where Valve owes you anything. They can do whatever they want, it's a business. If they are okay with not making cash by releasing a sequel to one of their biggest franchises then they can be my guest. It's not like they are the exception, there are loads of franchises out there who were either canned or in development hell. If they aren't willing to take the risk with HL3 then that's fine with me, but acting like they owe you anything is beyond cringeworthy.At this point valve are just taking the piss. I dont get why people are ok with valve.
If valve got more negative press about leaving there biggest franchise out in the cold and abondoing gamers Im sure they would at least say something.
How valve has handled half life is not acceptable. People need to make more noise about it
Specifically the way they handled it. Imagine this:Yeah. In the same boat.
The problem for me though isn't so much they abandoned the franchise, more if they're prepared to do that and incur the contempt of their customers, what else are they prepared to just give up on when the going gets tough? SteamOS? Vive?
Specifically the way they handled it. Imagine this:
Breaking Bad's final season was suddenly 'delayed' two months before release, after heavy advertising. It repeatedly gets delayed before they just stop talking about it. A few years later when someone asks what happened to Breaking Bad, the producer just replies: "Why the heck would we make a drama? Reality TV shows are where the money's at!".
I'm okay with this. Valve is clearly to busy managing Steam. Its time to move on from Half-Life.
Can't Valve get some external developer to develop Half-Life 3? But I guess at this point no matter how good it will be. It will never live up to the hype. I'm sure there are still a ton of talented people at Valve that can make an amazing Half-Life 3 if they do it internally