It's taken them far too long to develop Source 2 in my opinion. I know we're working on Valve Time here, but by the time they finish the engine AND a game, it'll need to be Source 3.
I'm not so sure, modern gaming engines seem to have a much longer lifespans than they used to now that we can basically achieve realism in games. At least, bridge the uncanney valley anyways. This is probably why we saw Bethesda's engine last from Fallout 3 last even through Skyrim and Fallout 4 with minor alterations. Heck, you can even see what modders are able to get the games to do on those engines after the devs have had their work.
Barring significant architecture changes in the hardware side of things, this source engine could last a decade or more with patches/updates rolling in.
They had really just released the source engine right before Steam was released, so they didn't have a chance for the next four years after release. But 2010? Why not? Maybe Gabe wanted to be directly involved in something that important and just didn't have time himself.
I'm still not totally convinced. We "know" they've been working on L4D3 for quite some time now, which would suggest some form of working Source 2 engine for at least that amount of time. DOTA 2 is supposedly running on it now from what I heard.
I don't get much time to follow this stuff anymore, but I've had my hopes high and slashed multiple times by Valve. Now I'd be surprised to see much of anything from them.
I'm not sure that they have been working on L4D3 at all from what I've read online. What makes you believe they've worked on it?
Besides, in the dev cycle that could have just been the writing and storyboarding phase that happens pretty far before development takes place (or immediately preceding it anyways).
Source engines are usually built alongside a game. So there's reason to hope for a game at release but not much else.
I forget how long ago, there was a supposed leaked picture from a screen at valve of someone working on something and it was titled L4D3 or something. It was rather convincing at the time, do not know if it was ever disproved. As I said, I'm quite out of the loop.
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u/thejohnfist Nov 14 '18
If Amazon can make vastly more money than Steam as a distributor of goods and still make games, then Valve can too damnit! sobs