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

[MasterThief]

the-pi-guy said:

MasterThief said:

ND is over 250 and they have the visual arts team in santa monica which is basically their studio thats also ~50+ people. 

Metacritic isn't dependent on how many people work on a game.  

There are some games with ~1000 employees that don't score well, and there's others with 1-2 employees that do extraordinary.  

During Uncharted 2, Naughty Dog only had 120 employees.  https://www.gamespot.com/articles/naughty-dog-designer-maps-out-uncharted-2-development/1100-6251473/

we're talking about a triple A game here

 

HL2 took 6 years. this is 2018