Never sees half-life 3 come to life
Never sees half-life 3 come to life
Marc Laidlaw leaving is not a reason for HL3 to not happen. People move around all the time. A writer leaving a software company does not make or break such projects. If they want to make HL3 they will, if they don't want they still won't. Valve has all the talent, skills and technology they need plus the ability to pay well enough to hire the best. But unfortunately thanks to Steam (unlike other game developers) Valve has no financial pressure to release games anymore. They are rolling in money. It's been 2.5 years since they released their last game (dota2) and they still haven't announced their next project. So there is a question mark on their ability to coordinate a large team and deliver new games to their customers. They do a lot of good work behind the scenes in terms of maintaining their exiting games with content updates, engine tech, dev tools for the industry, R&D, Steam, VR etc.. Nobody can deny that. But as a major game developer there is a question mark. They did say they will release something with the HTC Vive; but the danger is it will be just a mini-game and not a full fledged release. It has negatively affected the perception of them in the market as well. Previously they were seen as a beloved game developer. Now they are seen (mostly) as the company which runs steam.