And then also anyone has fallen into that stuff is often treated as if they're at fault for falling victim to the industry that's spent the past 4000 years perfecting the craft of taking advantage of desperate people

and even in some cases addressing low-stakes things that have been left untouched in the engine since basically goldsrc because they already worked well enough

I think what he's trying to refer to is the noticeable shift starting just under 2 years ago of things that came through going from new gameplay features to being mostly reworking existing stuff to where we are now with them doing increasingly more niche microoptimization around asset loading

They're close to 6 years in, sunk cost fallacy might just be enough to see it through

And you end up in this position around game events where he's like "No, I'm pretty sure it won't happen" and everyone runs around going "Tyler said it's happening!!" anyway and then when it inevitably doesn't he gets death threats

Even like Tyler's been pretty careful these past few years to stress that We Do Not Know and to stop getting hopes up for arbitrary dates.

Nobody was saying to expect HL3 yesterday, that was entirely reddit kids who decided it'd be there

In general though, all of the "oh it'll happen on [date]" stuff doesn't actually come from the big names in the space, it's mostly people on like reddit making shit up and falsely attributing statements, and if anything they've been having to fight an uphill battle against the misinfo

It's not even like something that takes a huge amount of effort because of the way source 2 works and valve being a bit sloppy.

I've even managed to help correct some of the worst of the misinformation and managed to get them to stop blindly looking at binary string dumps which is nice

That's why about a year and a half ago I went and started verifying stuff myself using proper source 2-specific reverse engineering techniques in my spare time in order to form my own opinion rather than blindly believing (or disbelieving) what I hear

live footage of nobody caring about hl3

He straight up said on live tv here that the rumours were false

Also his company still doesn't even try to ship hardware here despite managing Australia just fine ???

It's supposed to make the first 11 seconds of the startup video unskippable too but they broke that at some point