Over time, I think people sort of recognize how useful it is for people to vote with their time. A Half-life 3 would almost certainly be a flat screen game, but if these were to happen in near future then there’s no way it would be the meaningful advancement on Half-life: Alyx that Valve. The fervent feedback of the masses to these tiny, otherwise inconsequential bits of information is a bad omen, folks, and let me tell you why: Half Life 3 won’t meet your expectations. This seemed to point to Left 4 Dead having a much larger focus, with Half-Life 3 only having a small presence. 2020 has already seen a number of major terrorist attacks, which, coupled with rising tensions around the world and nuclear sabre. Left 4 Dead 3 had multiple mail groups set up for it, whereas Half-Life 3 had only one. The world could be in even more peril than the Soviet vs West face-off during the Cold War. In retrospect, it was a great idea, right? So the key thing was that people bear the consequences of their own choices, so if I spend my time on it the only persons time I'm wasting is mine. Threats from North Korea, Syria, Putin and Isis are worse than during the Cold War. We think you're kind of wasting your time, but it's your time to waste.' They were like 'that's what you want to do wit your time, that's fine, but we're going to spend our time working on Half-Life 2. Whether its Half-Life 3, a fully offline, large-scale re-reboot of Sim City, or a brand new F-Zero for Wii U, theres no guarantee whatever it is, is ever going to happen. There were a bunch of people internally who thought Steam was a really bad idea, but what they didn't think was that they would tell the people who were working on Steam what to do with their time. "When we started out we were a single-player video game company that could have been really successful just doing Half-Life sequel after Half-Life sequel, but we collectively said let's try to make multi-player games even though there's never been a commercial successful multi-player game.