Source Engine Deprecated?

[tiberiansun371alexw]

Now that Source 2 has been created, will Valve stop supporting soruce games in the next decade?

[aiusepsi]

Valve still occasionally releases updates for their Half-Life engine (GoldSrc) games, as recently as October last year, 15 years after Half-Life 2 came out.

If they do stop supporting older games, it won't be anything as arbitrary as there being a new engine.

[tiberiansun371alexw]

I didn't even know Half Life wasn't a Source game

[Brujeira]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย aiusepsi:

Valve still occasionally releases updates for their Half-Life engine (GoldSrc) games, as recently as October last year, 15 years after Half-Life 2 came out.

If they do stop supporting older games, it won't be anything as arbitrary as there being a new engine.

Indeed, it would need to be something drastic... like MS ditching 32 bit support level drastic.

[Cathulhu]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Brujeira:

Indeed, it would need to be something drastic... like MS ditching 32 bit support level drastic.

Something i can't see happening soon as the industry would be severely impacted due to their legacy applications.

[tiberiansun371alexw]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Cathulhu:

Something i can't see happening soon as the industry would be severely impacted due to their legacy applications.

That's good. I don't know about Valve, but some rather corner cutting software companies have a habit of neglating about version X once version X + 3 comes out or even worse shortly after X +1

http://xkcd.com/2224/

And it's this mentality that made me afraid

[Brujeira]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Cathulhu:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Brujeira:

Indeed, it would need to be something drastic... like MS ditching 32 bit support level drastic.

Something i can't see happening soon as the industry would be severely impacted due to their legacy applications.

Perfectly true. Apple can get away with it, but MS? Their corporate customers would throw a massive strop.

[Anonymous Helper]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Brujeira:

Perfectly true. Apple can get away with it, but MS? Their corporate customers would throw a massive strop.

I doubt their normal user base would like the idea of losing access to half of their games and applications either. If MS did like Apple did there would be riots in the streets.

If MS opts to do it at one point, I'm sure they'll phase it out gradually, first dropping the support from Home editions and giving Pro and Enterprise users many years to adapt before dropping the support altogether (and corporate users could still access 32-applications using virtualization if they absolutely need to run 32-bit applications even then).