I’m going on what people I know have told me about their trips to Valve. That studio doesn’t have producers, people will just join together in ad-hoc teams to work on things they think are cool and, most importantly, will be successful. HL3 will get bad press regardless right now because people still go on about “HL3 confirmed” and other crap. With their set-up, that’s toxic territory.
Valve also like to use their HL franchise to push new technologies, source engine, steam… maybe if VR actually takes hold in the consumer space - rather than the very niche dev market it currently has, and the most recent unit Oculus demo’d to us was such a step up from dk2 but at $600 and no out-of-the-box support in games, it’s gonna be a hard sell for a PC peripheral - there will be enough of a buzz around it for a team to spring up and play about with it (provided this hasn’t already happened).
Until then, it’s prolly for our own good to simply shut up about HL3 and let them get on with what they feel will work. Eventually, it will be HL3 but I don’t see it happening this decade.
