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Yep. It's a combination of both those factors, along with the prevalence of the PC modding community.Half Life 3 is just straight up never happening, and it has less to do with it having been so long and more to do with the state of Valve.
- Nothing Valve could create at this point would come close to matching the expectations that have built up for HL3.
- Valve doesn't even have developers that specialize in single player experiences on staff anymore.
- Valve will happily sell fan mods on their storefront without investing a single penny in development. It's free money.
Valve has absolutely zero reason to even try to make HL2:Ep3 or HL3 at this point. It'll just never exist unless Steam is finally overthrown, DOTA 2 goes out of style, TF2 cosmetics and general "trading cards" stop being traded for real money and their money fountain runs dry.