Does valve have the staff to work on a theoretical HL3 ?

[MasterThief]

the-pi-guy said:

MasterThief said:

thats a great way to make a double A 70~ish metacritic game 

Not really.  

 Big studios outsource all the time.  

But Valve doesn't seem very interested in making HL3 right now, anyway.  

big studios are much bigger than valve. we can simply expect most people at valve to be unavailable for main game development. that leaves ~100 people. thats like 1/3rd the baseline imo