Earlier in the week members of various gaming boards set forth with a mission. That mission was to sent a message to the gaming developer Valve through protest. However, unlike most protests that aim to have their message heard through malicious intent, these people took a different route. The plan was to have everyone log onto steam, launch Half-Life 2 and play the game all weekend. The plan sounds simple enough, the message was to let Valve know that the gaming community wanted to know where they stand on Half-Life 3. The problem was that out of the supposed 50 000 members that were expected to attend, only 10 000 or so actually followed through. Which results in Valve probably no taking much notice of the movement.

Since the announcement of the episodic release plans of the second installment of the Half-Life franchise. Gamers have been severely disappointed with the companies release windows of each episode release. The first episode was released in June of 2006, while the second was released over a year later in October of 2007. With some still waiting on the third episode to be announced, and chose to protest that. In reality though most gamers have giving up on the chance to ever see an episode three, and have since set their sights on the hope of a release of a third Half-Life installment.

Valve is a great company, who wildly respects its fan base. Often offering huge sales on their titles and on some semi-rare occasions have even given their games away. This is where people are seeing a problem, why hasn’t Valve given the gaming communities any information on the status of the game? While there are some pretty wild theories out their, most understand that games take time. However, at this point people just want to know what is going on with the game, or if it is even being made at all.