Valve, a company with many successful games in their track record, games like half life, cs, dota, l4d, all those games ended up being very successful. however, this is pretty much the ONLY title in the half life IP that wasn't successful and that says a lot. the biggest strange thing is how not even the game's belonging to half life franchise saved the game commercially, everybody still trashed on it since its inception. back when it was just announced, a lot of comments said that this game won't be good enough, since this is how it essentially displayed itself, everybody complained that half life alyx is just a VR title. so many accepted that they won't buy this game, either PC or no buy. and it makes sense because valve haven't really done normal games for a long time, they are trying to do something that isn't actually good, rather experimenting with things which eventually fail.

many people also said that hl alyx is a failed experiment, it also makes sense, since other valve games, even deadlock, don't target VR anymore. valve are focusing on mouse and keyboard again, so who this VR half life was for? honestly, there are people who gatekeep hl alyx, but those are usually people trying to justify their failed purchase because VR failed ultimately. it's not a viable business decision to go and start making vr games because you simply won't make much money from it. and hl alyx being such a title that didn't even sell well, what is the point behind this game? it never matched other half life games in terms of quality and especially storytelling and this whole thing was just a drag, an attempt to throw people into VR market, but it didn't work out and no one really wanted it at the end. valve should have been more considering and actually care about interests of gamers, that's the main thing to extract from it.