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I will never understand why Valve sits on their popular IP like L4D and Half Life instead of creating new content.
As much as everyone lauds valve, and its company structure, they do have problems with actually making things.
There's no real financial push to make things. They'll make the same amount this year if they release a new game or not.
So it's down to if people at the company want to make something. And it seems they choose hardware more often and struggle to get things to the finish line without any real push to make that happen.
Losing people like Chet Faliszek doesn't help much. People who got projects finished.
Tbf an environment where people can work on the things they want seems a pretty good one.
Like sure we aren't getting more games but idk the steam deck has been a wonder creation of theirs, plus feels a bit entitled to expect more sequels or games bc we are just consumers of their creation.
I think it's good, although the situation does seem to be somewhat dysfunctional on the game front. They've made literally dozens of projects, some near completion, all abandoned for one reason or another. I think this video does a good job of demonstrating it. It summaries a digital book called "Half Life Alyx: The final hours" written by a valve employee. Here: https://youtu.be/mHdrosltGJA?si=9TodoaYu95HMtRqf
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