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0 pointsApocryphon7y ago0 comments

Blame Valve's lack of interest in maintaining their franchises for that one.

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hnbroseph7y ago· 2 in thread

i lowkey kinda feel that the pervasive gamer hype about half-life 3 (for example the "hl3 confirmed" meme was extremely pervasive) made valve feel like it would be impossible to match the hype, and any flaw would be hyper focused. maybe now that it's faded a bit there won't be as much pressure. or i could be wrong about that mattering.

empyrical7y ago

The book "The Final Hours of Portal 2" has a section where they explained how much pressure they felt to try and have Portal 2 live up to Portal 1. Even effectively shutting down development of of other games for 2 months so the whole company could focus on prototyping experiments for new gameplay concepts that could be incorporated into Portal 2.

I would not be surprised of the pressure they feel for Half-Life 3 to be great is an order of magnitude greater than what they felt with Portal 2

ApocryphonOP7y ago

Team Fortress 3 when

robbrit7y ago

To be fair if I was in their shoes and had the cash cow that is Steam, I probably wouldn't care too much about maintaining franchises either. Games are expensive to build and profit isn't guaranteed; a distribution platform that is being used by everybody has much better economics.

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