VG27.com heeft het afgelopen weekeinde dit interview met Chet Faliszek online gezet, die al jaren lang een big dog is bij Valve. In het openhartige interview kwam ook de Left 4 Dead franchise (die binnenkort zijn debuut op Linux gaat maken) ter sprake en deze blijkt dus al twaalf miljoen verkochte exemplaren op zjin naam te hebben staan. Dus je kan er wel van uit gaan dat er een derde deel gaat komen, oh wacht Half Life........

Valve is very similar to Rockstar Games in that you don't over-hype your products. You talk about them when you're good and ready, or when games are finally in a presentable state. Why is that important?

Telling people a game is great will sell one extra copy. Letting people play the game - Left 4 Dead is a good example - is much better. All of our pre-release stuff is designed to just let people play it.

We just let the game speak for itself because the internet has made this thing where, you can't pull the wool over people's eyes any more. They're going to know you're hyping.

But when a game does really well at pre-release, they're going to know that you're not just talking a bunch of PR crap. I mean, the Left 4 Dead series has now sold over 12 million copies.

That's amazingly cool, and that wasn't because I was out there like, 'Oh my god! This game is amazing! Buy it!' Seeing Counter-Strike be the number one PSN title was awesome, and you know it's just because of people reacting to the game.