"Replying to a fan, Laidlaw has confirmed that he recently retired from Valve. Asked for the reason why, Laidlaw merely cited his age and a desire to lay back and perhaps work on his own stories.

            Regarding Half-Life, March has no insight on what Valve is planning to do with the franchise. He of course reiterates that the series is wholly owned by Valve.

           Laidlaw won’t talk much more on his retirement, his work with Valve, Half-Life, or other issues for the moment, but he did furnish our source proofs that it was him, so there are no doubts on that end.

          In between Steam’s continued dominance as a PC gaming storefront, and their new endeavors with the Steam Controller, SteamOS, and Steam Machines, it’s easier to believe that Valve simply isn’t working on Half-Life right now."

        I know exactly what Valve is planning to do with the Half-Life........ Absolutely god damn nothing!

       Source: http://www.gameranx.com/updates/id/32513/article/half-life-writer-retires-from-valve-does-not-know-franchise-s-future/

             

But wait...the writer's name was Marc, and his action was that he retired. Retired has 7 letters in it, but Marc only has 4.

7 minus 4 is 3...soooo......

HALF LIFE 3 CONFIRMED YOU GUYS!!!

It's time now, time to:


Half Life 3 was and always will be a pipe dream and even if it were to come out it would never live up to the hype the fans created for years on end. It's likely a good thing this happened because now it can more or less be put to rest, especially since Valve is more focused on the various Steam machines, their own gamepad and OS (hopefully client improvements too) .

I think he wrote the hole story before he quit. He had the time...

This is a possbility.  There was all that HL activity or rumours and stuff happening on Steam not too long ago.

I had a discussion with someone a while back who, basically, pointed out that Valve will make more money if they focus on the things they are focusing on then by spending a fortune and using employees making HL3 for it to sell a million or a few. It's just more profitable for them to focus on Steam I guess. I don't have a preference or an opinion.

As I said somewhere else, it gotta suck having passion for writing (probably scriptwriting too) and be stuck with the company that saw flourish your narrative now sitting around in a huge pile of money doing nothing but hats for Team Fortress and knife skins for Counter Strike. It surprises me he didn't leave earlier. I wonder what has he been doing all this time at the company.

May be for the better.

Half Life 2 was just legendary. It will not risk the franchise's god-like reception from the gaming community.

Good luck to him and we already know what Valve is going to do with Half-Life.

Nothing.