半条命系列的前总编剧（lead writer）Marc Laidlaw下午把EP3（HL3）的剧本放出来了
这基本意味着，《半条命》续作的开发项目现在已经不复存在，难道G胖，我们的救世主，真的已经深埋在steam这个印钞机中麻木数钱，忘记了valve的初衷--一个游戏公司了吗?
Valve有这个能力，精力和财力去完成HL3（EP3），但他们面对挑战，却选择了放弃，当初的HL团队也悉数出走，就像这个剧本里最后说的，
And here we are. I spoke of my return to this shore. It has been a circuitous path to lands I once knew, and surprising to see how much the terrain has changed. Enough time has passed that few remember me, or what I was saying when last I spoke, or what precisely we hoped to accomplish. At this point, the resistance will have failed or succeeded, no thanks to me. Old friends have been silenced, or fallen by the wayside. I no longer know or recognize most members of the research team, though I believe the spirit of rebellion still persists.
十年过去，现在的valve，已经成了一个开商店的，沉浸在皮肤、卡牌、帽子中无法自拔，公司招收的对象也成了经济学家。
G胖，HOW DARE YOU？

I expect you know better than I the appropriate course of action, and I leave you to it. Expect no further correspondence from me regarding these matters; this is my final episode.
valve当初的成功就是建立在mod的基础上，面对Marc Laidlaw的号召，游戏社群内的能人啊，你们能站出来吗？让我们以这个剧本为蓝本，把EP3 mod出来！

绝了

VALVE一个即将以哲学和玄学让人记住的伟大公司，或许我们更在乎卡牌游戏，不能开包的游戏不适合这个时代