They're rabid, they're passionate, and there are a lot of them. 'We've essentially crowd-sourced supervision of a lot of these decisions to our customers and it works way better than almost any other system we could design. 'We definitely in a sense have an army of customers who are always helping us stay honest.,' he concluded. However, Newell made clear that he's not blind to the wants and needs of the community. That line about customers seems counter to the many baying gamers screaming at Newell and company to make Half-Life 3 a thing you can play. You've had them feel like they have an organization and title tied up to something when the key is to just continue to follow where the customers are leading.'

It should be noted that the developer, Valve, has not confirmed anything. There is a lot of tension recently online among gamers and fans of 'Half-Life' as an anonymous user on Pastebin claimed on Monday that 'Half-Life 3' is currently under development and will possibly be released this year. You don’t want them to sort of burrow into that – you want them to recognize that being really good at Half-Life level design is not as nearly as valued as thinking of how to design social multi-player experiences. Gordon Freeman in 'Half-Life' Facebook/Half-Life. We think you're kind of wasting your time, but it's your time to waste.'Īs we know, Steam worked out quite splendidly, but Newell - in less elegant words - explained why a new Half-Life hasn't happened yet, 'So, if somebody becomes the group manager of X, they’re going to really resist it when X is not what you want to do in the next round of games. They were like 'that's what you want to do with your time, that's fine, but we're going to spend our time working on Half-Life 2. There were a bunch of people internally who thought Steam was a really bad idea, but what they didn't think was that they would tell the people who were working on Steam what to do with their time. Speaking with the Washington Post, Newell recalled, 'When we started out we were a single-player video game company that could have been really successful just doing Half-Life sequel after Half-Life sequel, but we collectively said let's try to make multiplayer games even though there's never been a commercial successful multiplayer game. Half-Life 3 is becoming something of a running joke in the industry now, and while we can titter and guffaw about the matter, Valve founder Gabe Newell has set some records straight in a new interview.īrenna recently posted an opinion blog about the long wait for Half-Life 3.

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