But until I figure out what it is, I have to ask one question: Maybe it’s got something to do with the fact that I don’t play L4D (or anything else on Steam, for that matter), so I’m probably missing something. Ok, I have to admit, I’ve been a little confused these past few days. The only other way to keep up the smokescreen now would be to release ep.3, true to rule No.1 in espionage: If your cover is compromised, distract your enemy with something shiny! In the face of this irrefutable evidence, it is only a matter of time before Valve must bow to the pressure and leak a halfbaked alpha of the new DNF to some eastern europoean warez-site. Evidence b) their staff clearly is not working on ep.3 – but they must be doing SOMETHING! Clearly, this must mean that they are all on standby, ready to shock and awe DNF into completion at a minute’s notice or, even more likely, they are hidden away in secret trining-camps, pushing wieghts, chain-smoking steroids… and programming ever more elaborate boob-physics engines, so that when they get that call, they will be ready to do the title so much more justice than it deserves. Thanks.Ģ.) Reading up on the L4D2 (Boy, will it get fun when they start releasing episodes for THAT!) boycott, and being now reminded of the absolute un-speed with which Valve seems to be chipping away on HL2e3 (see what I mean?), I had an epiphany! It’s obvious – Valve is working on Duke Nukem Forever now! Evidence a) the EAish move of releasing a sequel to a game when the bump-mapping hasn’t even dried on the first one yet is an obvious grab for money – money they clearly need to refill their coffers after buying the DNF-license, and covertly eliminating 3D Realms financial backers. I can’t help the humor-proof goofs of the internet, but if you dorks could stop raging out in the comments that would be super-great. It’s actually kind of making fun of boycotts in general, and the Left 4 Dead 2 boycott in particular. In closing, we, the disgruntled fans of Half-Life, vow to continue boycotting the game until such time as Valve makes good on their promise and stops not releasing it.ĮDIT: Five months later, I guess I’m tired of red-faced fanboys trying to argue with this post because they’re too thick to get the joke.
And then you didn’t.Ģ) We want to hold Valve to their promise of faster release times through “episodic gaming”.ģ) We really want to know who the G-Man is.Ĥ) Could we kill one of those adviser / space slug things? That would be sweet.ĥ) Could we get some screenshots in the meantime? Or video? Concept art? Something? Just, you know, show us you’re working on the game and not playing WoW all day. Don’t mess with us.ġ) You promised to make Episode 3. We are so committed to our cause that we made a logo.
We have assembled a manifesto outlining the basic concensus consensus of many members of our community.
The Half Life 2: Episode 3 boycott is a group of individuals who have pledged to not buy the still-unreleased final episode in the Half-Life series.