This would be an incredible marketing idea on Valve’s end. With that being said, if this game is imperative to the story, you could see thousands and thousands more of headsets be sold within the next year. This would make sense, as VR isn’t as mainstream as Valve would yet hope. It could very well mean that this VR exclusive game isn’t going to cover the whole story and answer all of the questions. Instead, the game is going by the name of ‘Half-Life: Alyx’. The upcoming game isn’t named ‘Half-Life 3’ like many thought it would be. Finally 12 years later, the team is going to release the next game with some answers. This is including the Half-Life 2: Episode two that left people on a cliff hanger all the way back in 2007.
This means that all seven (!) titles will be playable for anyone with a Steam account. In another form of celebration, one that seems much more fitting, Valve has made all Half-Life games free-to-play on Steam.
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We let the Valve Time happen before we announced the game.” Free Half-Life We’re confident we’ll hit our intended release. They went on to say that “Right now we’re primarily polishing and fixing bugs, which is where we’d hope to be at this point in the development cycle. Lots of us at Valve, as well as playtesters, have played through the entire game multiple times.” During the AMA today, the development team said that “With the exception of some tweaks to the absolute final scene, the game is done. Update: Hours after publishing this article, Valve announced that this game will not be seeing any delays. As for some of the burning questions and answers we get during the AMA, we will be posting and writing about those as they materialize. It was scheduled for 11 AM EST, but the Reddit thread through r/HalfLife has yet to be posted. Most importantly, the development team is doing an AMA (Ask Me Anything) this morning. In celebration of the game coming out in just two months now, the development team has done a few things for the community. This title is highly regarded as the best title that will come out in 2020 and the announcement of the game resulted in the Valve Index being sold out nearly everywhere. In the last couple days, there has been some new buzz around Half-Life Alyx, the exclusive VR title coming from Valve in May.