As fans become increasingly restless over the lack of Half-Life 3 news, Valve Boss Gabe Newell has stated that the team wants to ensure new titles are “more baked” before revealing them.

Valve’s bad experiences with Half Life 2′s many delays led the team to rethink its announcement strategy, to avoid getting fans excited about new releases too early.

“Part of the reason that we backed off talking so much about what was happening in the future is that when we’ve done that in the past, you know, with Half-Life 1 it was a year after we originally said it would be, Half-Life 2 basically if you go and read the forum posts apparently took us 50 or 60 years to get done, so we’re trying to be careful not to get people too excited and then have to go and disappoint them,” Newell explained. ”So we’re sort of reacting in the other direction and saying, ‘okay, well let’s have things a little more baked before we start getting people all excited about it.’”

Newell also responded to the lobby group that formed requesting information on the next Half-Life title:

“We’re acutely aware of how much we annoy our fans and it’s pretty frustrating to us when we put them into that situation,” he said. ”We try to go as fast as we can and we try to pick the things that we think are going to be most valuable to our customers and if there’s some magic way we can get more work done in a day then we’d love to hear about it.”

“But we recognize that it’s been a long time whereas we have so many games that people really love ? Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Portal, Left 4 Dead, not a whole lot of Ricochet enthusiasts out there, and at the same time we want to be making sure that those games and those stories and those characters are moving forward while also making sure that we don’t just get into terminal sequelitis,” he concluded.

As reported by: EGM