No athletic ability? It requires at least as much mental skill as speed chess, and physical dexterity as table tennis. I'd say that constitutes some athletic ability. I'm not a fan of the MOBAs and twitch-based FPSs and RTSs that are defining e-sports, but in high school I was on the chess team and the wrestling team…

It absolutely is. Although, mistaking "short term gains + long term losses" for "stockholder pleasing" is the root of 100% of all bad business practices.

That last sentence made me giggle a bit, but yes, exactly that. This inaction and enabling of ludicrous bot behavior, or just atrocious actions from companies trying to bully the people who make the videos that are the sole reason for Youtube's existence— this WILL kill Youtube.

No. Let's not create vast amounts of pointless busywork for ourselves by having to recreate countless assets in Source when they already exist in GoldSrc.

How so? (compared to GoldSrc, anyway?)

I know that, but how. Especially since Valve said that Source was created with modding in mind.

It's in the nature of modding— nobody is modding as a full time job. Every mod maker wants to see their work get into the hands of players sooner rather than later. Every mod maker has limitations on how much work they can possibly put in while leading a life and having a family (or not). That requires prioritization.…

It's too bad Quake Wars seemed to die out very quickly :/

I'm listening.

Probably because they didn't feel the desire to create vast amounts of pointless busywork for themselves by having to recreate countless assets in Source when they already exist in GoldSrc.

Mind explaining what you mean, exactly?

It would be counterproductive for them to work in Source, since the mod is set during the events of Half-Life, and not Half-Life 2. It was a natural fit to use GoldSrc, which has had scores of upgrades made for it over the years, without the necessity of having to create tons of new assets from scratch (when they had…

They haven't finished the Xen levels yet, no.

Wasn't there ever a way to port/play Decay on PC? It was kind of shitty for them to release a co-op campaign just for the PS2 release of Half-Life.

Holy shit. This is amazing, and I never even knew about this. Thank you!

Probably because the mod is set during the events of Half-Life, and not Half-Life 2 or later.

Well the mod is set during the events of Half-Life, not Half-Life 2. That's probably why they didn't.

Yeah! They should have just made a full new game, those lazy bastards! Shame on them!

That's cool. They could have used CryEngine 3 because that's a MUCH newer engine, too. Or even idtech 5, why not.

Methinks Maurice Andrews is an original creation.