Not many writers left at Valve as Jay Pinkerton leaves

Quite a few observers, together with ValveTime on Twitter, famous a Facebook replace from Pinkerton indicating he had left his job. Chet Faliszek, one other author who left Valve several weeks ago, confirmed the information:

VICTORY AT LAST!
VICTORY AT LAST!

Sigh.  @jaypinkerton actually is without doubt one of the funniest guys I’ve ever met, not to mention labored with. https://t.co/yVPL8gdfYv

— Chet Faliszek (@chetfaliszek) June 7, 2017

Pinkerton co-wrote Portal 2 with Faliszek and Eric Wolpaw, who left the company in February. He additionally labored on each Left four Dead video games, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and the Team Fortress 2 comics. 

Pinkerton’s departure virtually completes the exodus of Valve writers which Marc Laidlaw, who penned Half-Life, started in January last year. As far as we all know, Steve Jaros and Sheila Sadeghi are actually the one ones left. Sadeghi has labored on the TF2 comics earlier than, and can presumably conclude them, however the departure of Valve’s 4 most distinguished writers in 18 months is indicative of the corporate’s current course: away from single-player narrative video games, towards multiplayer dwell video games. Don’t anticipate that to alter any time quickly.