AngelicPenguin wrote on Jan 8, 2016, 14:20:Darks wrote on Jan 8, 2016, 12:57:thecakeisalie wrote on Jan 8, 2016, 12:30:
I was watching a video on Youtube that talked about HL3 and Valve and because Gabe Newell is rolling in dough from skimming off the top selling other people's content, why take the risk on trying to make HL3 and risking it flopping? They will just string us along counting their money from Steam until everyone that actually wanted HL3 dies off.
No, it's called be a fat lazy fucking asshole who has no drive other than making profit from other people's hard work. The guy has become the next George Lucas, someone who has lost his desire and will to continue on. If he can't find the time or will or desire to complete the Half Life story, then sell it off or have someone else finish it.
But please do not defend this asshole as someone who never intended to finish the HL3 story. That is utter bulshit to say they never intended to make HL3.
Valve as a whole has forgotten where they came from and what made Valve what it is today.
Big deal - steam is far more important than HL3. I'd rather they concentrated on what was good for gaming as a whole then churning out what will probably be a let down of a sequel.
Let everybody else make the games, and they can concentrate on their gaming platform.
I don't even know what I'd want to see in a Half Life 3 to be honest. It's not like the story was super compelling so I feel like I really need to have an ending.
Dacron wrote on Jan 9, 2016, 13:35:But did he even use a baseball bat, with his buddies, to smash the office's printer (fax machine? I forgot)?
Oh god is he going to burn valves offices down?
Won't somebody PLEASE think of the servers! /lovejoy
El Pit wrote on Jan 8, 2016, 11:08:
He felt lonely, sitting alone there since he moved his desk to the Half-Life (Episode) 3 group eight years ago. Everybody else was working on new TF2 hats, Counterstrike gimmicks, useless hardware and some operating system. Once he found out that Valve is no longer about making games, he left.
Mr. Tact wrote on Jan 9, 2016, 10:58:
They don't need a new story for HL3, TFA just proved that. (sorry, I couldn't resist)
There have been plenty of content delivery services or downloaders before the advent of the initially VERY shitty Steam.
Sepharo wrote on Jan 8, 2016, 20:15:Timmeh wrote on Jan 8, 2016, 16:21:
Inventing the worlds first digital content delivery service that changed the world is not hard work?
I guess you qualified it with "that changed the world" but Stardock would still be upset to hear "the world's first digital content delivery service" applied to Steam.
Timmeh wrote on Jan 8, 2016, 16:21:
Inventing the worlds first digital content delivery service that changed the world is not hard work?
Darks wrote on Jan 8, 2016, 12:57:thecakeisalie wrote on Jan 8, 2016, 12:30:
I was watching a video on Youtube that talked about HL3 and Valve and because Gabe Newell is rolling in dough from skimming off the top selling other people's content, why take the risk on trying to make HL3 and risking it flopping? They will just string us along counting their money from Steam until everyone that actually wanted HL3 dies off.
No, it's called be a fat lazy fucking asshole who has no drive other than making profit from other people's hard work. The guy has become the next George Lucas, someone who has lost his desire and will to continue on. If he can't find the time or will or desire to complete the Half Life story, then sell it off or have someone else finish it.
But please do not defend this asshole as someone who never intended to finish the HL3 story. That is utter bulshit to say they never intended to make HL3.
CJ_Parker wrote on Jan 8, 2016, 14:39:AngelicPenguin wrote on Jan 8, 2016, 14:20:
I don't even know what I'd want to see in a Half Life 3 to be honest. It's not like the story was super compelling so I feel like I really need to have an ending.
^ this
There isn't enough yawning in the world to do HL justice. Fuck this overrated garbage and let it die.
"Both the “left” and the “right” pretend they have the answer, but they are mere flippers on the same thalidomide baby, and the truth is that neither side has a clue."
- Jim Goad
Dev wrote on Jan 8, 2016, 17:32:descender wrote on Jan 8, 2016, 16:00:No but that's what handing off jobs to other dev houses is for. They could hand the job to another company, have them make the game. Happens quite frequently. Valve has even done it in the past with HL games. I suspect valve just doesn't want to give up on doing it themselves, and have made some attempts, but can't get enough wheeled desks on it long enough.
Do you think Valve should stop making tons o cash with Steam and... go back to their previous and considerably less profitable business model?
LOL... the selfish arrogance on display here.
Valve isn't dysfunctional, your desires for how they should run their company are.
descender wrote on Jan 8, 2016, 16:00:No but that's what handing off jobs to other dev houses is for. They could hand the job to another company, have them make the game. Happens quite frequently. Valve has even done it in the past with HL games. I suspect valve just doesn't want to give up on doing it themselves, and have made some attempts, but can't get enough wheeled desks on it long enough.
Do you think Valve should stop making tons o cash with Steam and... go back to their previous and considerably less profitable business model?
LOL... the selfish arrogance on display here.
Valve isn't dysfunctional, your desires for how they should run their company are.
Jagacademy wrote on Jan 8, 2016, 16:41:
Didn't play Half Life 1 very long, got bored with it early.
Did play all the way through Half Life 2, and it was "meh" at best.
Really don't understand the hype.
Verno wrote on Jan 8, 2016, 16:05:
Marc Laidlaw is 55 and filthy rich, I'm sure retirement would look pretty attractive to me too at that point.
But uh sorry, back to your regularly scheduled "Valve sux...but still make Half-Life 3 please" bitchfestNo, it's called be a fat lazy fucking asshole who has no drive other than making profit from other people's hard work.
What a silly comment, as if he hasn't earned anything through hard work and some very astute incubation over the years. Running any business with employees is profiting from other peoples hard work by the way, assuming the business makes money.