{"id":33313,"date":"2014-10-17T09:04:49","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T16:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=33313"},"modified":"2014-10-17T09:05:03","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T16:05:03","slug":"half-life-fans-want-pester-valve-imitation-gabe-newells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2014\/10\/17\/half-life-fans-want-pester-valve-imitation-gabe-newells\/","title":{"rendered":"Half-Life fans want to pester Valve with imitation Gabe Newells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"We Want Half-Life 3\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3XNHevKREpg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Crowd-funding has brought gamers some great stuff. We have Divinity: Original Sin, FTL, and even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/324283889\/potato-salad\">potato salad<\/a> thanks, in large part, to successful crowd-funding campaigns. Is it possible that we could finally get Half-Life 3 thanks to an IndieGoGo drive? Probably not, but that didn&#8217;t stop Chris Salem and Kyle Mazzei of the marketing firm McKee Wallwork &#038; Co. from starting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/we-want-half-life-3\">We Want Half-Life 3<\/a> funding campaign. As the video above shows, this is not just a couple of guys sending an email to Valve. They have wacky sounding goals that will at least bug the heck out of Valve head Gabe Newell.<\/p>\n<p>At $3,000, they&#8217;ll start a Google AdWord campaign that will target all Valve employees. With $9,000, the campaign will hire a mobile billboard truck to drive around Valve&#8217;s home turf of Bellevue, Washington. If they reach $45,000, the fund will pay for Gabe Newell impersonators to show up at Valve HQ. Last but not least, if they gather enough pledges to hit $150,000, the marketers will host &#8220;the biggest Half-Life concert possible&#8221; in Seattle to get their message to Gabe.<\/p>\n<p>Are they mad, or are they savvy chaps demonstrating their own marketing skills for their company? If we&#8217;re all sitting around playing Half-Life 3 shortly after the campaign ends on November 17th, I guess we&#8217;ll all know for sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crowd-funding has brought gamers some great stuff. We have Divinity: Original Sin, FTL, and even potato salad thanks, in large part, to successful crowd-funding campaigns. Is it possible that we could finally get Half-Life 3 thanks to an IndieGoGo drive? 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