valve writer for portal and half life 2 LEFT!!

[Lilninjsways]

Erik Wolpaw, a long-time Valve writer who has worked on game series including Half-Life 2, Left 4 Dead, and Portal, revealed today that he is no longer with the company. Marc Laidlaw, himself a former Valve writer, let the news slip on Twitter, while Wolpaw confirmed it in a status update on his Facebook page. 

 

@Wolpaw left Valve so I can now insult him freely without damaging the company's reputation. He's a comic genius and a true original.

2:55 PM - 17 Feb 2017

 

Wolpaw joined Valve in 2004, and has credits on Half-Life: Episode One and Two, Left 4 Dead, Portal, and Portal 2. Prior to that, he was with Double-Fine, where he co-wrote the outstanding platform-adventure Psychonauts, and before that he was one-half of the brilliant (and sadly defunct) gaming site Old Man Murray. He's currently involved in the development of Psychonauts 2, which was successfully crowdfunded in early 2016.

A reason for Wolpaw's departure wasn't given, but it does appear to be legitimate this time around. A report that he had left Valve also surfaced last summer, but in that case it turned out that he'd just called in sick for the day. 

I've emailed Valve for more information, and will update if and when I received a reply. 

 

 

Update: The report originally stated that writer Jay Pinkterton had also left the company, but apparently not.

[zMeul]

if you scratch your balls for 6 years, continuously, you kinda' get bored

[Guest Kloaked]

17 minutes ago, zMeul said:

if you scratch your balls for 6 years, continuously, you kinda' get bored

I guess you have experience with this.

[Notional]

I mean, it's not like he had anything to do there anymore. The artist behind the look and feel of Half Life 2 left long ago to make Dishonored, so it's not exactly new. Valve is a microtransaction company now, that focuses on Steam as a retailer, and with online games, they can nickel and dime to hell.

[NumLock21]

Finally he can talk about the number 3 as much as he likes without have a boss that's superstitious about it.

 

[Prysin]

3 hours ago, Kloaked said:

I guess you have experience with this.

so much that he just had to share it

[Guest Darth Revan]

I'm surprised Valve kept him for such a long time. I mean he was payed for 10 years for doing nothing. Half-Life 2 Episode 2 was released 10 years ago.

 

[Lilninjsways]

54 minutes ago, Darth Revan said:

I'm surprised Valve kept him for such a long time. I mean he was payed for 10 years for doing nothing. Half-Life 2 Episode 2 was released 10 years ago.

 

that long ago!? im old 

[YoloSwag]

I think it had something to do with HL3, where he was on projects but those got scrapped 'coz it will never live up to the hype

[Godlygamer23]

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[Equlix]

His talents were wasted at valve. Hopefully he lands somewhere cool.

[ttam]

This is fake.

 

There were also tweets from other Valve people saying it's BS and they are still there.