It ' s a desk not a factory . <| sep |> There was a time when Valve was very willing to talk about Episode 3 Jt 0 w 9 YPwZ 0 . Then it all changed one day in August 2008 and we haven ' t heard much more since . Just the occasional rumor that reignites the hype temporarily . The only real evidence we have that it will not happen anymore is that the writer , Marc Laidlaw , has retired . Also Valve has switched gears to what they are now rather than building single player story driven games . I don ' t think it was canned because it stunk , they seemed to have a lot faith in it actually , at one point , but they just found a better way to make money . <| sep |> I can ' t pull this for the life of me , it burns me every time i see people get it