It has been more than a decade since Half Life 2 was released and became a hit back in 2004, and was named as one of the top rating video games of all time. Aside from being a favorite in the gaming community, it also won a lot of awards. Because of this, Valve Software has then decided to release Half Life 2: Episode 1 and Half Life 2: Episode 2. Fast forward to now, and it seems like fans of the game franchise will be disappointed as it seems like Valve Software will not release the game yet.
There had been previous confirmations stating that Half Life 3 is currently under development. However, Valve admits that Half Life 3 will never have a release date, as reported in Movie News Guide. There's only around 10 people who are currently working on the said project, and although the game developers have been working on it, there isn't any assurance that they will release Half Life 3 as it is not their main priority at the moment. Apparently, the executives are having second thoughts on developing new games as they are continuously earning more from their other famous games such as Counterstrike GO, Team Fortress 2, DOTA 2, and Steam. According to Movie Pilot, Valve Software is already earning an approximate three quarters of a billion dollars a year from all these aforementioned games.
Another thing that keeps Valve from releasing the game is that, they are avoiding the backlash from certain gamers who might get disappointed with Half Life 3 and react violently on the game. Valve doesn't want to deal with this negativity anymore and just wanted to focus working on their other priorities.
Valve, on the other hand, might change their minds eventually as Valve co-founder, Gabe Newell, says, "the reason we'd go back and do like a super classic kind of product is if a whole bunch of people just internally at Valve said they wanted to do it and had a reasonable explanation for why [they did]," quoted by Ecumenical News.
As of now, Half Life fans can only wait and hope that Valve will eventually decide to release the third installment to this game at the right time.
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