They have repeated that line in more recent interviews, also. The last big news that had any official statements about it was that the writer had some ideas, but the way Valve operates he can’t get enough interested team members together to actually do anything. Nobody else really wants to work on it; they have other interesting projects they would prefer to work on.
The devs explicitly stated in the HL2 commentary that HL3 was not being worked on and that they had no plans on resuming development.
The HL2 commentary…? From 2004?
Bruh, install HL2, they added commentary!
They have repeated that line in more recent interviews, also. The last big news that had any official statements about it was that the writer had some ideas, but the way Valve operates he can’t get enough interested team members together to actually do anything. Nobody else really wants to work on it; they have other interesting projects they would prefer to work on.
Was that the full HL3 story leak several years back?
Maybe plans were made after that statement.
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