Despite what Valve plans or doesn’t plan to do regarding the next Half-Life, or how long they plan on developing it, there’s no denying that they’ve dropped the ball when it comes to communicating with the Half-Life community, and the gaming community at large. As a result, they may have inflicted a fatal injury upon the franchise and its community. There’s better ways to ensure a lengthy development time than acting like the franchise in question doesn’t exist, and occasionally annoying your fanbase by blatantly trolling them.
Whenever Half-Life 3 does come out, we’re all pretty sure it’s going to be monumental. I wouldn’t expect any less from a Half-Life game that’s been in development for nearly a decade. But I think we can all agree that Valve isn’t doing this right. At all. So what can we do? Can we even do anything at all? Well, there might be something. Let’s see what it is…
they need to make hl3 foe the 360
Im in this group I was one of the first few 100 I think it’s great!
Marcus may say whatever he wants, but as I said on the forums I still think it’s incredibly sad that the crowbar thing got almost immediate response from at least a Valve employee while Surfrock’s polite and well thought initiative hasn’t been acknowledged at all, and it dates a long time ago. What do you think people will organize next? Donate to charity without even knowing if Valve will say anything after a certain threshold is reached? Or be vocal, whiny and spammy? It’s clear what works on the forums, let’s I hope it goes better with the Steam group.
Uh… that’s exactly what Marcus’s point was. That this is a more meaningful and intelligent way of sending a message to Valve.
There’s something very wrong with our boy Valve, he doesn’t know how to count to 3. #hl2ep3 #hl3
“Portal 2 Soundtrack: Volume 3”
I do not agree with this in anyway whatsoever!
This whole thread is acting as if Valve owe us this game, as if WE all did something huge and they HAVE to make episode 3(or Half-life 3).
Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to see a new Half-Life but, I just think people need to calm down about it.
I will say this now, Half-Life will be announced when Valve announces it!
Hey, I am the creator of the thread and Steam group. I don’t think Valve owes us anything; in addition, we are not trying to get the game revealed faster. We would simply liek Valve to communicate better with their fans now and in the future. Sorry if there was any confusion about our message.
What you’ve got to remember is this isn’t a demand for the Game to be released or announced, just simply a request for some sort of update as to exactly when something can be expected rather than the current “We’ve got nothing for you”
The thread and group is not, in any way, asking for information about the game, or for it to be announced. It is simply asking for them to let us know whether or not we will be waiting and for how long.
You’ve got to remember that EP3 was first publicly talked about in 2006, when EP1 came out. It was supposed to come out late 2007, but then Valve decided to do the Orange Box and release EP2 along with TF2 and Portal. Valve then said that they would talk about it again by the end of 2008, then never said anything, and still haven’t. It isn’t asking them to reveal it, give us info, or release it faster, it’s simply asking them to let us know if we’ll be waiting, rather then getting our hopes up each year, gaming event after gaming event, only to be disappointed by the year’s end.
Approve.