Allergies to valve number 3 persist. The lust for a third Portal game may not be as strong as the lust for Half-Life 3 (or just Episode 3), but the gripping puzzle series has many fans wanting sequels, including Portal. I am eager. Author Eric Walpaw. Unfortunately, it’s still difficult to judge the possibility of another sequel.
Wolpaw previously pitched Portal 3 (opens in new tab)after a stint at Double Fine, hopes to inspire action at the company, returning in 2019 as a part-time contractor. clarified. (opens in new tab)but this didn’t mean Valve committed to developing it.It’s been four months and not much seems to have changed.
Interview with Simon Parkin on My Perfect Console podcast (opens in new tab), Walpaw explained the difficulty of getting the sequel off the ground. “In a flat structure like Valve, there is an opportunity cost to do anything. Whatever is happening at Valve right now requires the dedication and participation of the people working on it. is.”
So Valve needs enough people working on Portal 3. But in the meantime, Wolpaw continues to push it and jokingly give Valve a hard time. “People who might be disturbed by it understand internally that it’s just me joking,” he added.
A source of fan frustration is the lengthy period in which Valve doesn’t seem to be developing anything else. Or Half Life 3? However, Wolpaw defends his employer.
“Valve isn’t a huge company. Some people think it’s because of Steam’s huge influence, but we don’t really have that many people. It takes manpower to keep Dota alive.” And CSGO takes manpower to keep up, and Freeform, by the nature of Valve, simply means there’s a lot of failed experiments, so there’s a lot going on inside Valve. When you’re there, you think it’s happening all the time, because it is.”
Valve has clearly been busy lately, working on the Steam Deck launch and Counter-Strike 2 development. (opens in new tab)Steam itself is the most important piece of software Valve has ever designed or maintained.
“I enjoy what I’ve done at Valve and my time at Valve. If I have to choose between Valve games and Steam, that’s important to me. I feel it’s the most democratized technology on the market, and I would choose Steam for people to make games and for game creators to actually make games and put them in front of people,” said Wolpaw. said Mr.
So at Valve there is always something competing for your attention. “This is a manpower issue,” he said Wolpaw. “You have to choose what you’re going to work on, and your time is limited.”