Apologies if that post^ seemed like back-seat modding, but we haven't had a a mod come in here in a while and I feel like I'm just playing gatekeeper at the moment.
I hope you found the advice useful/constructive on what is going to happen next with both threads.
No, it's fine that you called it out. Regardless of the position of mods on the matter, PC Master Race is a meme that needs to be put to rest. I was going to say something about it when I read that post, but I didn't read it until a few hours later, and I decided to let it get buried on the previous page rather than bring it up again. While there is no way to put a stop to console wars in NeoGAF as a whole, we should be far enough removed from it that we don't need to engage in it, and when someone starts trying to bring that stuff in here, we should absolutely nip it in the bud.
Not only is it just all around dumb to engage in console wars shenanigans, but people seem to forget that a lot of PC gamers play on consoles as well, and there isn't a clear delineation between "peasants" and "master race". We're all just people who play games, sometimes on the same platform, and sometimes on different platforms. There's nothing to be gained by looking down on someone for choosing to play on a different piece of hardware from you.
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On HL3:
Valve is a business, and they are not obligated to reveal anything to anyone. This is known. No customer of theirs is owed anything, other than the products they have paid money for (which presumably have all been delivered).
On the other hand, it's generally good business to treat your customers with respect, especially in an industry where fans can be a huge driver of sales and word of mouth advertising. Valve is perfectly within their rights to not say a damn thing about Half Life ever again, but they can't really be surprised that a 7 year radio silence on the franchise that put their company on the map might piss off their customer base.
That being said, there is no sense in organizing fan campaigns to force Valve to say or do anything about HL3. They know fans want it, and they know people want to hear the status of it (if they ever forget, the question comes up in pretty much every interview). If Valve is not talking about HL3, it has nothing to do with them not knowing people want it, so harassing PR people and camping out outside the Valve HQ with cardboard signs isn't going to change their position on the matter. If Valve doesn't have anything to say about HL3, the anniversary of HL2 isn't going to change that. You don't have to be happy about the fact that Valve hasn't seen fit to give a shit about a significant portion of their fanbase, but you should at least be smart and reasonable about it.
