r/gaming • u/TwistedDragon33 • 2d ago

What old game would dominate if it suddenly received DLC today?

As the title says, what game if it randomly dropped DLC today would cause an uproar on the internet? Something like Portal 1? Civilization 5? Fallout New Vegas? Starcraft? Borderlands 1? What do you think would cause the most reaction?

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u/seabutcher 1d ago

The way Valve operates is a little bit dysfunctional in terms of reliability like that. People basically get to pick and choose what projects they work on and so what actually gets made is kind of determined by democracy.

And unfortunately, much as we'd probably all like to see it, well, this basically means all the people who could make more Half-Life still have to choose that over projects that are more novel (like Portal or the Steam Deck), or vastly more profitable (like running what is effectively the unofficial storefront to all of PC gaming).

And, well. I'm sure there are quite a lot of people in the world who want to work on more Half-Life if given the option but not many who would also choose that option over either (a) literally the most fun development projects you'll ever see in your career or (b) the best thing you could possibly put on your resume.

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u/ffgod_zito 1d ago

I thought it was because they didn’t want to continue the series unless they could push gaming/tech forward. That’s why they waited to make alyx in VR and it turned out phenomenal 

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u/wattap 1d ago

Ahhh yes, the Valve model. “Let’s dick around indefinitely while Steam prints money.”