Make 70 billion $$ per year

>make 70 billion $$ per year
>40% of the revenue of the entire global gaming industry
>more money than most countries gdp
>made millions of devs their whore
>no hl3
What do they do with the money?

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People say HL3 is their trump card for shit goes south but I think we're at the point where amount of people who'd get hyped from that are aging out faster than new blood is coming in.
So who the fuck knows? Will that fat fuck Gabe really let himself die before making it happen?

Dealing with corporate parasites

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70 billion seems a bit high. does anyone know the actual numbers? has gaben ever told anyone?

You can say that about all companies.
Idk waiting for it to be worthless.
You could literally buy gigantic Titanic size ships and have a neverending party.
Have full simulation building's that copy game levels.
Make every npc a real girl in every game.

>You can say that about all companies.
You can't really. Most other companies we know exactly where they're pissing their money.

They barely break even feeding gabe.

They cancelled HL3 because it was clearly going to turn out shit. Even when Valve actually made games, they always cared more about the technology aspect over the, you know, game aspect. Only the technology aspect can draw them out now (i.e meme VR with alyx).

Valve reached a point where they did not need to make games anymore, in an industry where developers are constantly jumping between companies to maximize their pay. They probably lost a lot of talent during their downtime after L4D2. They only have a few hundred employees.

proton

HL3 will never come out. No matter how good it is, mere announcment of the game would send hype and expectations through the roof that final product could never reach.

And let's just face this, HL1/HL2 formula of gameplay is outdated and majority of normies getting on hype wagon would be bored to death as they're used to modern CoD.
And deviating from "typical" HL gameplay would piss off oldfags.
The bar is set so high that no matter which route they choose it would never be good enough.

I'd honestly rather get Alyx 2 instead

What would even happen in an Alyx 2?

>HL1/HL2 formula of gameplay
What do you mean? The corridor type of level design where there's only 1 way forward?

You play Alyx in a maid costume doing house chores in G-Man's house

>>made millions of devs their whore
Not surprised that you're ESL
>>no hl3
Good, I'm glad valve is not thinking of only profit and chooses to only make games they know are going to be worth their time and ours. Im glad they're not like every other fucking company out there. I'll take 1 good game game every 2 decades over 2 decades worth of dogshit.

Steam was estimated to make $4 billion a year back in 2017. Considering how much the industry exploded the past few years thanks to the wu flu, it's probably around $9-10 billion today.

Ok where's the 400 billion British petroleum makes everything Year

No RPG elements present in almost every FPS nowdays
Medkits and shields instead of regeneration
No "epic" cutscenes that take control away from the player to perform some ebin feats
Relatively "slow" action compared to contemporary shooters
The list just goes on, HL2 is what, almost 20 years old now, which i can barely believe myself, but it shows.

Given what happens in the end of Alyx... How can the sequel not be HL3? are they just gonna send us to wherever the g-man sent Alyx?

WTF
I love valve now!

>What do they do with the money?
Work on saving PC gaming from Microsoft.

Remember, HL3 isn't happening until GNU/Linux use on Steam hits 3%, and it will not be coming to Windows.

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>hits 3%
from above or from below?

Hookers and blow.

Valve aren't EA. If you want yearly releases of the same game, go play EA games.
Valve has ~350 employees, and they focus entirely on pushing the industry forward.
Sometimes they miss, sometimes they hit big.

HL3 could just be HL:Alyx but with more weapons and story finally moving forward and it would be fine