They are not fun to me. And Half Life also made money. Not as much as these two but again, I dont care, Im a consumer and I want the thing, and the only company that can produce said thing refuses to. So I complain. And then they laugh. And so it goes.
I'd hope Valve would be a bit better then that.
Are they really cool with someone else making a full-on numbered sequel though? And obviously not everyone has the talent, people and budget that Valve has to make a sequel that would feel satisfactionary. I mean hell, apparently no one has impressed Valve yet enough to make HL3 for them, or no one really tried.
Even if Valve did make HL3, it wouldn't be able to live up to the humongous and unrealistic expectations placed on it. The only way I do see that happening is if Valve made it a VR game and revolutionized the VR shooter genre in some way. Really from a business perspective, there's no point taking that risk when the company is well-off with Steam, CSGO and Dota. Sucks but you gotta understand that we won't be seeing Half-Life for a long time and that isn't a bad thing. I'm interested in seeing where Valve goes with VR. There was that write up by Laidlaw which serves as closure to HL2, if it satiates your hunger in some way, you should check it out.
Mad is a strong word. But whenever I hear about the company doing something I just cant divorce it from that cliffhanger and disappointment of years of no news from my head. Especially with jokes meant to mock it, like Gabe still refusing to say number 3, like if the company has moved on then actually move on.
Could never get fully into L4D but I wouldnt mind another Portal. If they actually decide to make one.
I have no interest in HL3 but still I never get the argument when it comes to hugely successfull entity ( to be fair I mostly hear it with Valve and years ago with Mojang ), that it's not that they don't want to, but can't do something because they are too small for that. Their size is a choice, so is its consequenses.
So in your opinion they would inherently loose something big if say, they had a separate office with 30-100 ( entirely random number there ) employe dedicated to game developement ( could be for new projects, or for the post release support of their current games where they clearly struggle too ).
Not really, no. In fact, spreading this nonsense is one of the major things which has turned me completely off of Jim Sterling.
Again I have zero interest in HL3, so my question isn't specificaly aimed at AAA developement. As someone who played TF2 and play Dota 2, I've actually heard the size argument far more often in the context of those game post release support than when it comes to HL3.
