
Instead, time has likely only made it even more difficult to please gamers, which brings us to the problem of nostalgia. And the passage of more than a decade since Half-Life 2 isn’t likely to diminish the high expectations for a new Half-Life game. If that’s true, it’s hard to say whether Valve might be right in fearing the backlash from increasingly vocal gamers if their new game isn’t everything they’ve imagined and more, but it’s at least an understandable fear. Among some of the reasons offered for Valve’s general indifference towards continuing their flagship franchise is that they simply make enough money already, and that the potential backlash from fans to anything less than a perfect game could be more detrimental to the company than the (likely) huge revenues that it would generate. We’ve heard before from Valve sources confirming that the game is close to release, and others clearly stating that Valve has absolutely no intention of releasing Half-Life 3 any time soon. It’s hardly the first, and unless Valve announces the game in the next week, it won’t be the last.
