Former Valve exec recounts the meeting where Half-Life's publisher almost killed the iconic FPS: "Half-Life would quietly die. I was stunned"

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“Christmas was pretty low-key,” Harrington says of the months after its initial launch.

Then sometime in mid-January, Sierra’s business team reached out with news.

“Half-Life would quietly die.

I felt stunned.”

By the end of the meeting, I was shaking.

This was make or break for the company.

I left the office that day not knowing what Sierra would do.

The rest is history.

But it would have all looked very different if Harrington hadn’t been so ballsy.