Valve President Gabe Newell Emphasizes On Half-Life’s Delay

Valve recently released its 25th anniversary documentary on Half-Life where Gabe Newell emphasized why delaying the game was important.

[Knightofelemia]

L4D3 please.

[RhinoGamer88]

I am shocked Gabe is still with us. Absolutely expected a widowmaker heart attack to take him out years ago. He never took care of himself. Hope for the rest of us?

[Jin_Sakai]

Why bring this to anyone’s attention? It’s his life and he could outlive any of us for the matter.

Reminds me of a story where an old lady had two doctors tell here that if she didn’t quit drinking Dr. Pepper it was going to kill here. And she lived to tell the story of how she’s 104 years old and that both doctors had died.

[RhinoGamer88]

He is very wealthy and has not used that wealth for charity (that I know of) and has used it for excess. Also, he seems obstinate and defiant to the pleading and wishes of his fanbase. So not someone to hold up in super high esteem.

[Fist4achin]

Was Dr Pepper one of their names?!

[specialguest]

@RhinoGamer88 - who the hell are you to say how he should use his wealth?? You don't know his personal life and what he's done. Not all good deeds are announced out loud to the world. Get off your high-horse. You don't have to be wealthy to give back, so what have you done to help the world?

[Si-Fly]

Do you make a point of letting everybody know you give to charity? I certainly don’t, it would be pretty gross. You have no idea about what Gabe does with his money, like you said.

[shadowknight203]

Your 1 of those people walking on the street with a surveillance camera showing you pass by while someone is getting robbed, just watching and moving along. You need help.

[OtterX]

Well it's staying true to its name, bc it's taking half my life to see a proper sequel.

[Yui_Suzumiya]

I'm gonna have to write that one down, lol

[Games1st]

Suck is forever.

[Godmars290]

And yet even with multiple delays, nowadays there's no guarantee that a game will being functional.

[Minute Man 721]

Vaporware

[Inverno]

Gabe be looking like Flynn from Tron nowadays.

[rakentaja]

Steam prints them so much money that they literally don't need to make any more games. That's the only reason we don't have Half-Life 3 and other games from Valve. All developers would do this if they could find that one game or service. Gabe has to come up with the same excuse every time. He must have been wondering for years why you fools can't understand why there is no sequel.

[anast]

OG hustler

[mkis007]

I just realized I haven't heard "when is episode 3 coming" since Alyx...I have a pretty good idea of that games ending, but even if it is considered 3....its weird.

[mudakoshaka]

Definitely not a part 3. Alyx altered the ending of Half-Life 2 setting up another sequel.

[DefenderOfDoom2]

My favorite Gabe Newell story is when he was working for Microsoft and he was celebrating Windows 95 being the 2nd biggest software of the year, and then asked what was number 1 and was told it is a video game called DOOM . So after that he quit Microsoft , then met ID Software and then started working on Half Life and created VALVE.

[Aussiesummer]

I'm hoping this means the half life 2 raytracing update is soon, would be a rather apt time to drop it.

[chicken_in_the_corn]

People still think this? Plenty of delayed games have released in a bad state. Worse than those that weren't delayed at all.

[HyperMoused]

Steamdeck in Aus please

[jznrpg]

I print money out my ass so why would I focus on these silly games I used to make. GN