Oh I know, its just been so damn long since we have had a Half Life game (or any FPS from them), stories of the old guard leaving etc. I really dont know what to expect from Valve anymore (I havent been following what they are doing with VR). I'm just kind of neutral on this announcement as I literally dont know what to expect. Hearing that so many of them do remain, raises my expectations.
Have only played my brothers PSVR, and I thought that was the shit, as in, I could see so many possibilities with what VR could do, something truely fresh and interesting. If Valve are doing a proper full blown VR dedicated title, it's gonna be very interesting to see what they do. But it would need to be truely something special to make me splash out for the headset.
Just in wait and see mode at the moment. It would truely make me happy if they blew up gaming again.
Folks have retired, or sought other challenges in their careers after over decade is abnormal for such long periods and for a company to have low turnover. The narrative is spun because of bitter folk crying about not getting a new console game. Much the same as the Valve don't do anything spam. All this when Valve as a tiny company over 300 strong company, still output and ship more than other companies.
Their focus shifted off shipping new titles, with focus on VR since 2012 for which they've been the industry leader. They reorganised themselves to now support R&D and hardware efforts with game dev simultaneously, and this HL game is a result of that and the developments of SteamVR.
Its completely reasonable to be frustrated with it though, if it isn't that accessible or your not convinced of the medium yet / tried decent hardware / games etc, and it isn't on a preferred platform. As usual with Valve and the open PC approach, they'd focus on that first and as fidelity / features improve on other platforms they'll likely port it over. They've been consistent in saying they aren't expecting everyone to somehow buy into the super expensive nature of VR off the bat, but it will scale over time, and as devs have a better understanding of developing for the medium, it will be clearer why the medium is great for gaming and with ever improving content.
No need to feel you have to jump in right now, but obviously if Valve can make something as defining as previous HL games strived and succeeded to be, it can have a knock on effect for content
