Message To Valve

#61

I always get the feeling in these types of threads that people think that EP3 will be the end of the Half-Life series or Gordon Freeman, or some “final goodbye” before Valve does away with the series altogether. It’s not.

To re-iterate:
EP3 is the last episode.
EP3 will end the Half-Life 2 story arc.
That is all.

The Half-Life series is Valve’s baby, it’s what made them and certainly is what kept Valve and Gabe afloat in the early years. It’s their flagship product and they’re not going to just dump it after episode 3.

It’s annoying that they’re not saying anything, but they might be scared of the mistake of what happened before Half-Life 2 was released, the false promises and delays, or doing a repeat of the “Alyx falling off the bridge trailer” for ep2. Anything would be nice though, E3 was a another disappointment.

#62

One gameplay screenshot would probably satisfy everybody…

#63

You don’t know people very well.
The Black Mesa devs released a shitload of screenshots and you can see where that got them.

#64

The "we’ i mention is, the one who signed it and the one who want.

So “we” exclude you.

#65

If it were made for all these years with no media/info then a single screenshot would make everybody happy…

#66

I can’t sign it.
I got banned from the forums for trying to get people to stop flaming me over my VAC-ban.

It’s apparently promoting cheating and exploits.

#67

Or they banned you because you’re a midget…

:retard:

#68

…for a couple days. Then people will “need” another…and another…and another…and a gameplay trailer…and developer blogs…and five golden tickets to a tour of Valve…then a release date…and if they don’t give one, you’ll have people saying that it’s dead…

No…let’s just let them work on it, 'kay? They know what they’re doing.

#69

Yeah, but at least everybody would know that there is some kind of progress in there and Ep3 wasn’t put aside in favor of Portal/L4D series…

#70

I highly doubt they’d “put aside” one of the most successful franchises in their business.

#71

Well, that’s what it looks like…

#72

I’m sure behind doors that’s not what it was like, I do feel a lot has been developed on HL2: Ep3, even though there is lack in content, but look what they did for Portal 2, they announced it superbly when some of the game was developed, so lets hope they kind of announce EP3 in the same sort of way, and that would create a lot of excitement.

Signed the petition thing anyway. :hmph:

:3

#73

Personally… I KNOW ep3 is there, I KNOW it is in existence and I KNOW it is in testing. I just prefer to have OFFICIAL notice from Valve about it rather than know about it secretively.

And before you ask, basically I saw a clan buddy of mine in my friends list playing “Half Life 2 Ep:3” and despite me begging for weeks about what was up, the most I got out of him about this incident was “Victoria, you should know about NDA’s so stop asking me about this!? I am already in trouble cuz I registered it to my regular steam account instead of a new one!”

#74

I have an uncle at Nintendo and he showed me Metroid 6 for the Wii-II and it’s totally awesome but I can’t say anything else because he would get in trouble.
[color=black]I can’t tell if you’re joking or not.

Really, this isn’t about media releases and giving us peeks and treats before, it’s about letting us know that they’re working on it, even though they’ve given us no indication they are, yet do almost nothing to hide all the OTHER things they’re working on, many of which are pretty damn huge, and could very well be taking away from resources going to Ep3, possibly all resources.

#75

gabe literally has a giant collection of knives and a wall of photo’s of his giant collection of knives. turns out valve is retarded

#76

nothing annoys me like collecting weapons

#77

Mah daddy has an awesome gun collection. His motto “The day they take away our right to bare arms is the day criminals will be the only ones owning them.”

#78

yeah but thats stupid and i hate him (sorry)

#79

Harsh.

#80

It’s not harsh if he says sorry! Then it’s just a statement.

Founded in 2004, Leakfree.org became one of the first online communities dedicated to Valve’s Source engine development. It is more famously known for the formation of Black Mesa: Source under the 'Leakfree Modification Team' handle in September 2004.