Half-Life Writer Mike Laidlaw Has Officially Left Valve - martelyestrion

Half life 1 and 2 writer, Mike Laidlaw, has officially left developer Valve, and is "no longer working on Valve Games in any capacity".

Laidlaw was the sole author on the legendary Half life from 1998, and its sequel from 2004. Rumors about him leaving Valve, erupted a some days past when a Reddit drug user allegedly posted e-mail messages of Laidlaw confirming his departure.

Half life writer formally left Valve

According the e-mail conversation, there are many another for Laidlaw to leave Valve. Most of them are personal ones.

Chase the leaked e-mail conversation, PC Gamer contacted Laidlaw to verify his departure from Valve. PC Gamer reports that the e-mail conversation posted above, is legit and correct.

"I am none longer a round or part prison term Valve employee," the email reads, "no more involved in day to day decisions or operations, no longer a spokesman for the company, no longer privy to most types of confidential information, no more working on Valve games in any capacity."

What this means for the Half-Life serial is ambivalent. The rights to Half-Life are owned aside Valve, and out of Laidlaw's hands right-minded now. Whether we'll ever see a new Half-Life remains to be seen.

Rachis in March of 2020, Valve's Gabe Newell discussed the possibility of Half-Life 3. When asked whether fans will ever see a unaccustomed Half-life, Newell replied: "the only reason we'd go back and do like a super classical kind of product is if a completely bunch of people evenhanded internally at Valve said they wanted to do it and had a reasonable explanation for why [they did]."

"But you know if you want to do another Fractional-Biography pun and you want to ignore everything we've learned in shipping Portal vein 2 and in shipping entirely the updates on the multiplayer side, that seems like a nonfunctional choice," Newell continuing. "So we'll keep moving forward. But that doesn't of necessity always mean what masses are disquieted that it might mean."

With Laidlaw leaving Valve, chances for a correct new Half-life sentence, have become littler once again.