[stordoff]

It also doesn't help when reviews aren't made on the merits of the product. Pretty common on, e.g., Steam:

> DOTA 2 users then had the brilliant idea to do the dumbest thing any fanbase can do to a game, flood Metacritic with bad user reviews. The slew of zeros since the forgotten Diretide has dropped the game's user score about two points to a 4.5.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2013/11/02/valve-for...

[dota]

Half-Life fans are currently leaving negative reviews on Dota 2 because Valve won't make HL3. Recent reviews went from "overwhelmingly positive" to "mixed".

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/08/steam-reviewers-bomb-...

[logfromblammo]

Valve should probably just farm out HL3 to Obsidian, and continue printing money with Steam.

[pvdebbe]

Open-world Half-Life does sound intriguing.