Submitted 2 weeks ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to technology@lemmy.world
A new leak claims that a Half-Life 3 announcement might have been delayed due to the Steam Machine price. According to the insider, Valve is still trying to determine the console’s cost due to skyrocketing hardware component prices, such as RAM.
Half-Life 3 being ruines by tech bros wasn’t in my bingo card but I’m not surprised at this point.
Tech Bros ruin everything 🤷♀️
Hatred towards tech bros somehow increased even higher.
Good
if valve is waiting for ram price to come down then steam machine won’t be released until 2028…
It won’t ever be released, prices are never coming back down
Lets have hope, if the AI bubble bursts prices will go down.
Never thought I would be expressing accelerationist views but rn I just want the crash to happen. AI is bullshit and the sooner everyone realizes that the better.
Programmer buddy of mine was telling me their theory that AI is the last hurrah of Big Tech and Venture Capital, shifting a patient that has been in place since most of us were children.
Even after the Dot Bomb area is the 2000’s, FinTech taking it in the chin in the 2008 global financial crisis, three meaningful Crypto rises and falls, and now AI, there’s always been some new for train to institute and sell to the retail investor and the general public.
The beleaguered finances of middle classes pretty much everywhere, hand in hand with the deleted brain trusts from AI making us really dumb and unconfident (or falsely confident), convinced with the lack of new productivity borne from these last few market cycles (AI and Crypto not actually doing much for the majority of humans commensurate with the hype) results in a possible chance for actual market accountability and seeing only genuine market growth.
I think that megacrash and the world waking up to the marketing machine is considerably less likely, but agree with them (given their best experience in FinTech) that it might meaningfully end our collective beliefs that Silicon Valley can steer everyone towards brighter shores.
I don’t remember where I heard it, but a phrase I quite like is “AI is the death drive of capitalism”
Even after the Dot Bomb area is the 2000’s
Pardon?
The GMan has broken containment and is now wandering through our timeline, inserting people into the right points to change the future. I guess this explains the whacky wild ride we’re currently on.
Game is delayed because they couldn’t tell people about it on a stage. This sounds logical.
“All good things…”
Oh yeah, hardware prices are what’s preventing HL3 from coming out. Sure.
I’m guessing they want to bundle it with the machine and have it as a sort of “demo” game.
Which isnt unprecedented… they did the same thing with Alyx and Index, didnt they?
Game journalists need to hit a quota; quick, start a HL3 rumor for clicks!
Pretty bad luck on the timing for Steam Machine. Hope Valve can still pull it off, but not sure they’re going to be able to hit a price point where it’s worth buying.
Linux as a gaming machine dream gets destroyed by ram prices…
Just gonna link what I said last time, apples here too
This is just straight cope. HL3 isn’t coming out anytime soon.
I’m confused, was there any expectation it would that I missed? As far as I know half life is dead. They never even finished episode 3 of half life 2 from like two decades ago.
Half-Life Alyx proves it’s not totally dead.
There are persistent rumors that Valve is planning to release it alongside the Steam Machine.
There have been a lot of data mining in the past few months that indicates they are working on something that has yet to be released, which is very likely a Half Life game. I’ve been watching the HLX Files series by Tyler McVicker for a while as he sticks to just facts without much hype.
Right
Pic or it never happened.
Please Gabe sell a special edition orange one for half life 3.
Are you asking them to release an… Orange Box?
Would be pretty cool to have the Orange Box have a copy of the Orange Box preinstalled
Yeah and it’d be cool if they threw in a couple other games to show its versatility. HL3 of course, but a multiplayer game and maybe a unique puzzle game would be a good mix of game types.
Orange Box 2, Which is a computer and contains no sequels to anything that was in the orange box.
Hopium administered
Half life 3 won’t happen.
I just want Gabe Newell to get up on stage and be like “Y’all DO realize we’ve already made like 7 Half Lifes, right? But you morons are obsessed with the number 3, so here you go, you fucking sheep”
A few weeks ago journalists said that complete systems will not be affected short term because OEMs order RAM and SSDs a year in advance.
So what is it?
It is a Vice article. It has the journalistic credibility of a dirty wet wipe.
You won’t be able to order the next batch unless you charge the increase in the first as you wound have the funds.
Just because a journalist says something doesn’t mean it’s even remotely true.
Basic economics.
It'll depend on the futures contracts. They'll have price clauses and, get-out clauses , resale clauses and stuff, so it'll come down to lawyering.
It's unlikely that journos know the contract details. Buy clearly any OEM without a futures contract already in place does not have access to low prices.
And any OEM with cheap stock and contractual freedom to resell would seriously consider parting out and selling off stock at the windfall price.
So that’s why it takes so long.
Hopium administrated
Give it another week and the ram for the steam machine will cost more than the whole steam machine the day it was announced.
My default assumption at this point is that HL3 is not real, and this is all a cope.
Nice
Bundle it with Star Citizen
And Beyond Good & Evil 2.
You uh, that’s all three wishes, you sure you don’t want something more traditional, like world peace or something?
lol
Don’t get my hopes up, especially if what they eventually release is in Duke Nukem Forever quality.
DNF makes me so sad to this day.
I’m ready to be hurt again.
Lol, half-life 3…the end is near!!!
Why bundle HL3 as launch title? Feels a bit too much to develop the most memed game ever + trying to figure out the logistics of 3 new hardware products at the same time. People won’t exactly rush to buy Steam Machine for HL3 if they already have a decent PC.
Because it's not actually "half life three".
It's (half life)^3.
One of the hardware constraints is that has to be played on something cubic.
Having a plan and external pressures wrecking the whole thing has some strong Aliens^3 vibes, so that checks out.
Maybe they just realised in time about the upcoming RAM price hike and setup both to each other, so that either one becomes an excuse for the other.
X Doubt
It is kind of funny how the title says one thing, and then the very next sentence says loljk, just the announcement, which has obviously zero things in common with development.
10MeterFeldweg@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Curse this “AI” shit!
just_an_average_joe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Curse the profit maxxing capitalism behind AI, if it wasn’t AI, it would have been something else
jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I suppose that’s one way to look at it. Is this … optimism?