Yes, Half-Life Was Patched This Week. No, it's Not for Half-Life 3

[BreakfastMan]

I actually think it is pretty damn cool that they are still updating the game and fixing issues almost 20 years after the game came out. I mean, what other studio has released a patch for a game 20 years after it came out?

Blizzard.

Okay, sure, but Blizzard is the exception.

 

[shrekfan246]

They've been out for 19 years, hasn't everyone who's gonna play them already done so?

What about:

-People who aren't old enough to play it yet
-People only getting into gaming now who are curious about a landmark title in gaming history
-People who replay it because they liked it
-Possibly even people getting into game design who may study the game at some point

There's probably people who'll play for reasons I haven't though of but those are the ones that immediately spring to mind when I see daft logic like that.

I'll add a few:

-People who never played it because they didn't have a PC at the time
-People who played PC games but weren't old enough to really follow or buy their own games
-(Similar to your second one) People who only started playing PC games years after it was already relatively irrelevant but have an interest in seeing older games

I am confused as to way Valve would bother patching such an old set of games with a statistically insignificant player base.

Why not? It's not like sending out a bugfix patch for an engine (that they presumably know rather intimately) requires that much investment in the way of time or money.

The more pressing question that I have is if anybody truly still even cares about Half-Life 3. Like, honestly, it's not happening.

 

[gizmo2300]

They've been out for 19 years, hasn't everyone who's gonna play them already done so?

Ah yes, I quite enjoyed watching Casablanca within 20 years of its premiere even though I was born in 1990.