Falsename said:
All of this doesn't change the difficulty factor. Sure these things are all 'possible' but they're hard to do, and even harder to do properly. Valve... or just Gabe, knows this. And Valve/Steam is doing well enough that they don't feel an immediate need to try and continue the Half Life series. Sure it was their original, and it helped them get where they are now but they've found themselves in a corner with no way out.
It's easier for Valve to say 'Nevermind, lets just let HL die away' rather than to attempt the alternatives. Like 'Lets make it but we dunno how!' or 'We're not making Half Life 3 (nerds rage!'.
There has been no news of HL3. Everyone that says 'it will be a full game now' is basing this arguement on the fact that the episodes didn't work out. They don't actually know this because no updates/news/leaked data has been discovered.
Just because it's 'possible' for a HL3 to be created that doesn't mean that it will be.
Valve isn't bothered. Valve doesn't want to risk the disaster HL3 could become. Valve doesn't know how to pick up the pieces. Valve can't think of a logical ending (that wouldn't result in outrage from fans). Valve knows HL series is old. Valve has moved on... so should you.
........seriously?
You're going with the "They're lazy and it's too hard to do so obviously they're taking the easy route of not bothering" argument?
..........................seriously?
I'm not going to even bother arguing against it, except to hear that I'm really not overly clingy to HL3 or the HL series as the BEST GAMES EVAR or anything, and never was in the first place. The games were fine, but that's all. Just like Halo was fine, COD was fine, and so forth.
NWN was awesome though. But I'm digressing from a point I'm not even bothering to argue against.