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A Call For Communication

Postby Blink on Mon Jan 16, 2012 9:45 am

A Steam Community group titled "A Call For Communication" has been gaining quite a following over the last few weeks, and it's aim is to get some kind of recognition from Valve that the HL series is still alive in some form:

Waiting patiently for over four years is a daunting task, especially when E3 comes and goes without any beat of a Half-Life pulse, time and time again. Valve had stated that information was scheduled to be released towards the end of 2008, and we believe that if they have chosen, for whatever reason, to withhold this information, fans should at least be acknowledged in some way, regardless of developmental plans for the next Half-Life project. The entire trilogy of episodes was supposed to be completed and released by 2007, and if Valve have decided to do other things for the time being, that is fine; all that we ask for is a basic response on the matter, and to let fans know whether or not the current story arc is scheduled to conclude at another point in time.


It's a reasonable request in my opinion. I'd love to hear something from Valve, particularly around engine and SDK updates, seeing as this sites existence pretty much relies on interest in Source as a development platform.

The group already has 10,000 members, so head over and show your support.
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Re: A Call For Communication

Postby Dr. Delta on Mon Jan 16, 2012 11:22 am

Thanks for the heads up. Join for teh cause.
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Re: A Call For Communication

Postby source-maps on Mon Jan 16, 2012 11:33 am

Ill join, but it's not going to matter because Valve only does what it wants
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Re: A Call For Communication

Postby cpl. punishment on Mon Jan 16, 2012 4:15 pm

source-maps wrote:Ill join, but it's not going to matter because Valve only does what it wants


Who knows, if they see that there are a lot of fans of the series who are crying out for information, they might throw us a bone about their plans for the series.
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Re: A Call For Communication

Postby Dr. Delta on Mon Jan 16, 2012 4:52 pm

cpl. punishment wrote:
source-maps wrote:Ill join, but it's not going to matter because Valve only does what it wants


Who knows, if they see that there are a lot of fans of the series who are crying out for information, they might throw us a bone about their plans for the series.


Just like how they improve the SDK right. :lol:
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Re: A Call For Communication

Postby Phott on Mon Jan 16, 2012 5:23 pm

cpl. punishment wrote:
source-maps wrote:Ill join, but it's not going to matter because Valve only does what it wants


Who knows, if they see that there are a lot of fans of the series who are crying out for information, they might throw us a bone about their plans for the series.

Like they don't already know? Remember when everyone thought there was an ARG related to HL3 a couple of weeks/months back? Or that time a guy wore a HL3 shirt. Fans went crazy.
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Re: A Call For Communication

Postby Jangalomph on Mon Jan 16, 2012 6:29 pm

Am I the only one that doesn't understand what an ARG is? I looked it up but it was practically no help.
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Re: A Call For Communication

Postby Phott on Mon Jan 16, 2012 6:45 pm

jangalomph wrote:Am I the only one that doesn't understand what an ARG is? I looked it up but it was practically no help.

Alternative Reality Game, search for that for more in-depth info. Basically it's a game that can be used to build up hype for movies and video games. Valve has done it before by having people decipher codes and clues in videos and images. That's just a small ARG. The big ones can go on for months and would potentially have the players travel around the world to find clues and such.
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Re: A Call For Communication

Postby Jangalomph on Mon Jan 16, 2012 7:23 pm

So its basically a Puzzle kind of thing.
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Re: A Call For Communication

Postby nub on Mon Jan 16, 2012 8:12 pm

Worth a shot. Valve is known to react to its community.
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Re: A Call For Communication

Postby source-maps on Mon Jan 16, 2012 8:25 pm

cpl. punishment wrote:
source-maps wrote:Ill join, but it's not going to matter because Valve only does what it wants


Who knows, if they see that there are a lot of fans of the series who are crying out for information, they might throw us a bone about their plans for the series.


like they don't know :P

nub wrote:Worth a shot. Valve is known to react to its community.


not necessarily
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Re: A Call For Communication

Postby nub on Mon Jan 16, 2012 8:34 pm

Still worth a shot!
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Re: A Call For Communication

Postby Joseph T on Mon Jan 16, 2012 11:01 pm

source-maps wrote:not necessarily


I'd say worse that could happen is that they don't say anything. In that case what have we lost?
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Re: A Call For Communication

Postby source-maps on Tue Jan 17, 2012 12:35 am

I never said it wasn't worth a shot guys ;)
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Re: A Call For Communication

Postby tron00 on Tue Jan 17, 2012 5:10 am

I would love to see this succeed, but I'm not holding my breath. I really don't understand this universal lack of support for all of their games. Left 4 Dead hasn't had an update since Oct. 2010, and that one broke the Authoring Tools. It seems like L4D2 and maybe Portal 2 are the only games on their minds. Except for making hats, of course.
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