Well, yeah. But it is better. I'll trade not having HL3 for not having "spend P2W gems to boost production" type games. But sure, Valve has loot crates in TF2,

Well, yeah. But it is better. I'll trade not having HL3 for not having "spend P2W gems to boost production" type games. But sure, Valve has loot crates in TF2, so they're not saints, it's very likely true that it's just because they're printing money that they're not shovelling crap (of their own). But other companies shovel crap despite printing money.