https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYE5cxQrIp8 enjoy the cruelness of reality 
Yeaaaaah, 'nother day, 'nother useless thread.
Every day is another day you know. Also this forum is dead so I felt that it might need some refreshing. At least we can laugh instead of being depressed.
I see new posts every day; I wouldnât call this forum dead.
Still not infinite+1 moniesâŚ
Fake and gay video.
still better than that valve interview parody posted by SwampFox
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Even though the notion that they donât want to make videogames anymore is a fallacy, the fact that they donât have to should not be dismissed. Pretty much that is the only false thing about the video, the rest is true, I wouldnât even call it a parody, save the imitator, forced jokes and bad acting. Itâs more like free advertising with a spin on it, I couldnât shake the feeling of a commercial in the end.
For the comments, people react too negatively over nothing, the double even mentions Valve having games in development, but he brought up a fact that people often donât want to hear despite its obvious and logical nature they get butthurt about. Valve do what they do to make more money in the first place (A counterargument often is: âNot true, they are already rich and donât need more money!!!â thatâs just stupid, they would be a charity with such a mindset) another thing is that they could make toilet paper and release HL3 20 years from now or never and still stay above the water in the industry.
The video as I see it is pretty much just a reality check for those of us who think that Valve are dependent on Half-Life fans or owe us anything. They are working on HL3 from good will and likely because itâs still important IP to them that they relate to and enjoy working on. We made a purchase for a product without any sort of contract which would oblige them to release sequels periodically for us, weâve already got what we paid for.
There are only some unwritten but expected âmoral implicationsâ that go along with it, like without their original title, they wouldnât be where they are today. So to âhonorâ it, continuing it is in order or something.
But yes, the harsh truth is that they donât have to and HL fans really are a minority when it comes to their revenues.
The good thing is that itâs being worked on, which the video doesnât deny, so all thatâs well ends well.
Hah. Minority.
Iâm kinda sure that all HL titles sales combined since their releases up until now are a non-existant drop of water in an ocean compared to their total sales since Steam went up.
Thatâs less than a minorityâŚ
The only thing I donât understand is how could they be so cruel to just leave us on a terrible cliffhanger ending in EP2 and then take a lifetime to write a sequel.
I would have been happy with another 3 hour episode, and ready to wait 12 years for HL3 afterwards.
Coincidentally, I was thinking all day about the reasons behind EP3âs cancellation and then I realized this, EP1 reuses about 70% of HL2âs assets, while EP2 reuses about 50% of HL2âs assets. Then one mustnât forget that EP3 was to be:
- set in snowy areas with advanced weather likely too
- and even to feature a brand new Alyx model despite being meant to have been just an episode
- new weapons and enemies the former nontraditional for an episode
- new rebel models, so almost everything all new
It is unlikely it would have included as much as 20% of HL2&EP1&EP2âs assets. With that in mind, there was no reason for it to have stayed just an episode. So they pretty much went like: âscrew it, we are going to build a new engine first and then will port itâ and thatâs likely how HL3 have gone into development. All just my speculations, of course, but tell me Iâm wrong :-]
With that being said, suddenly obvious, isnât it? For the communication, lastly we were told from Valve (more or less): âwe rather do x than just talking about x and instead of making excuses for not having done x in time, we stay quiet because no info isnât worse than bad infoâ
When did they say that Ep3 was âcanceledâ?
I only recall them stating that they werenât doing the episodic model moving forward.
Whatâs the difference? If they havenât released an episode 7 years after it went into development, the likelihood of it being still worked on is close to none.
Itâs Valve. People said that about HL2 and guess what happened.
Most of the dev time is likely on Source 2 since their older engine is out of date by now. And modifying existing code that isnât yours (hell even if it IS yours) is a bitch, let me tell you.