>We're sad to reveal #ErikWolpaw and Josh Weier, two leading Portal devs, have left #Valve.
Holy fuck. There is absolutely no way HL3 will ever get made now.
Is this the end of valve?
>SteamOS flopped
>Steammachines flopped
>steam controller flopped
>paid mods backlash
>Dota slowly dying
>tf2 dead
>>340213841
Proof or you're lying.
>>340214649
But Steam machines sold to expectation.
Everything else is right tho.
I'm just saying check your facts, dude.
My favorite snack is the big pink cookie
>>340214649
Nah, Valve is still making shittons of money off Steam
They don't even have to do anything beyond keeping the servers up at this point
It is probably the end of them as a game developer though, they'll just be an online retailer
Valve really needs to release a new game
>>340214776
https://youtu.be/OB0PXs0YAho
>>340213841
They have it coming for not making HL3.
I can't fucking take it. Even if valve managed to make another game it will be shit considering all the people who have left.
Valve is no longer a single player video game company.
They'll make L4D3, maybe make HL3 a multiplayer co op shooter and add crates or something and make bank.
They will never make a game like portal 2 or half life 2 again.
>there are hundreds, perhaps thousands of fans who have died waiting for half-life 3
I remember when Valve was one of my favorite developers.
>>340215468
Except they did, its unfinished and lost motivation for making it after the overhype happened.
They probably wanted to make a game and Valve doesn't make any anymore.
No one loses unless those two were really good at handing out steam refunds or something.
What kind of idiotic aspiring game devs want to work for valve? Make hats all day? Optimizing the store front? It must be a terrible environment for creative minds
Get out of there, go to kickstarter, apply for different companies, anything, because even EA makes something at least
>>340213841
Oh, well.
As long as they're still swimming in money from Steam and Team Fortress 2, they don't need to make another game.
>Erik Wolpaw
WOW
WHO GIVES A FUCK
>>340214649
>3 of the most top played games on steam
>dead
the only thing dead about valve is their ability to make new games
>>340215309
>let's try to pick up the mood slightly by talking about cosmetic items
This is depressing.
>>340213841
>John Romero, John Carmack and Adrian Carmack all leave Id
>Holy fuck. There is absolutely no way DOOM 4 will ever get made now.
>3 years later,
we have the best DOOM since DOOM 2. With these 2 gone, Valve will likely be bought out, though, Valve isn't known for their coding expertise like Id is, since, well, Valve basically just revamped the quake engine... anyway, this game will actually be more likely to be on it's way now. Why? There's money to be made, and there's plenty of people who LOVE the Half-Life series.
>>340213841
>Valve is dead because a game only memers still want isn't getting made
I love how much this board exaggerates for no good reason.
>>340216008
Ones that want to make a lot of money. They are paid a lot compared to other game devs.
>>340216338
>One of the richest privately owned companies on the planet.
>Getting bought out.
So is Erik gonna start up old man murray again
>>340216338
>Valve will likely be bought out
Wow, Valve lost devs. It's not like they even develop fucking games anymore.
>somewhere out there, in the near infinite universe, a convergent race of aliens are playing Half Life 3
>>340215995
They can do whatever they want, it's in the employee manual
>>340213841
That's fucking depressing. What do they even do at that company anymore? Do these guys just sit on their asses writing new TF2 comic plots while a couple of interns pump out unoptimized hat models?
>>340216338
How old are you
If you are over 14 you should be ashamed for this post
>>340215309
>valve time
>valve news network
why do these things exist
are they for autistic people
>>340216752
Valve is a private company as long as the founders are still alive. Once gaben dies of obesity which is very likely to happen it will go public and IPO eventually, and yes, it will be bought out
>>340216338
Mongoloid
>>340216813
A handful of devs aren't going to be able to make Half Life 3, unless it's a retro game. That would be kind of hilarious actually, just make it as a HL/HL2 mod.
>>340216338
>we have the best DOOM since DOOM 2
nu-doom is trash.
>>340214649
>dota slowly dying
Haha, nice one
>>340216876
>why do these things exist
There was a time long ago when Valve actually did things. Valve Time was a fun place to go to when TF2 ARGs were still a thing and people still had hope for HL3.
Don't know why it's still around, though. There can't be that much to report on anymore.
>>340213841
>muh half life 3
don't you have anything better to do?
>>340217023
The best Doom since doom 2 is Doom64.
>>340217257
Like?
>>340213841
>#name
>not @name
Full of shit.
nu-valve is irredeemable trash and I will not support them by buying games from their store.
They treat you like a rat in a skinnerbox. Their entire focus is on automation and letting your braindead fans do all the work for them. You don't own your games and change their policy whenever politicians enact consumer friendly laws.
This may indeed seem like emotionalism, but not really. See I don't invest lots of money and time in their platform, because nothing lasts forever. What I mean by that is when Gaben dies next year of a heart attack, what then? Will some new laid back CEO take his job? Will they IPO and get bought out by investors that will turn valve as we know it into another EA? I'm just protecting myself against that
This monopoly valve has on PC gaming is cancer and has lead devs to become ever more lazy and inefficient
>>340215914
Valve feedback:
MY COUSIN WHO HAD CANCER WAS WAITING FOR HL3, HALF-LIFE 3 NEVER ARRIVED AND MY COUSIN DIED
>>340216973
Or he just passes ownership to a family member and tells them to let a certain employee run the place.
>>340214649
>SteamOS flopped
Yes
>Steammachines flopped
They lose no money if it did
>steam controller flopped
It sold about 500k, no it didn't
>paid mods backlash
A year ago but yes
>Dota slowly dying
What?
>tf2 dead
Its always dead according to you retards
>>340216813
They can but if no one else wants to play along they're on their own
>>340214649
If anything, the lawsuits from fucking Galaxy in Turmoil will fucking kill them
>>340213841
there is no money in making games. selling other peoples is much better.
These guys doesn't have any relation with half life development.
chill out fags
>>340214649
>Dota slowly dying
lol
I don't even play that game but every fucking autist in my friends list plays that garbage
>>340213841
>two leading Portal devs
>not Kim Swift
you must be new
>>340214649
>mfw Valvedrones/Linuxfags were saying SteamOS and Steamachines will kill Windows
>mfw they're now back pedaling and saying it's a long term plan instead
Hostile takeover of Valve by Vivendi when?
>>340217908
>Portal, TF2, and L4D are all just "mods" because they use the same engine as the developers other games
that's fucking retarded. Might as well call Pro Evolution Soccer a "mod" of MGSV.
>>340214649
>the end of valve
You do realize that steam makes billions of dollars, right? The entire reason they take all those risks is because it doesnt even matter if they pay off.
>>340213841
I remember hearing the name Valve and being excited for any news. Now, only emptiness.
>>340214649
Good riddance, valve has become a cancer growth on pc gaming.
>>340219434
>Kim Swift realized valve didn't wanted to make games and jumped the ship
>that was in 2009
this company is so dead creatively, is just steam and engineers sucking each others dicks now doing useless garbage nobody cares about
>>340213841
I guess it's time to watch that valve cafeteria interview with Erik Wolpaw to reminisce of the old days.
Why would he leave though? I thought he was at the brink of leaving the tech business for good right before he got a job at Valve and it made him change his mind?
HL3 is never getting made unless they can find a way to turn it into an online-only game with 100% steam marketplace integration.
>>340219531
Fuck no, please.
No HL3/new games and fucking microtransactions ruined Valve enough already, I'd rather not have a mega-corp potentially kill off what good is left in their shootans.
>>340219912
>Valve used to be the hero of PC gaming with their innovative games, consumer first policies, and transparent CEO
>Now they are nothing more than a faceless corporation hell bent on nickel and diming their playerbase and haven't made a new game in years
What happened?
>>340218525
Really once it's in somebody else hands anything can happen.
>>340219264
I thought the half-life writer and other people already left.
based gaben
>>340214649
>SteamOS
Got more games to port to Linix, that's always good.
>Steam Controller
Is fucking GOAT and many use it.
so many that I'm yet to see a single game without a minimum of three layouts published by users
>Steam Machines
That's not a Valve product, valve literally only contributed the brand name, and that's it.
The companies that lost thousands on marketing and missed sales are Alienware. And other shit prebuilt companies.
>paid mods
That was a good idea that was shortly executed, I'd it was in the hands of a dev that has the same altruistic outlook as Valve but without the rampant laissez-faire attitude, it would have been a huge hit. At any rate, they're back for DotA so try didn't give up on it.
>Dota2 slowly dying
Bait, the player base is still increasing, and the international prize pool is already over that of 2014, almost 11 million USD.
>tf2 dead
It's always been dead.
Pretty mediocre bait, but seeing how you caught so many I thought it's important to step in and give some real answers everyone agrees on.
7/10 well done.
>>340220450
Steam and Bethesda showed them how easy consumers are, thus leading to the first Mannconomy.
>>340219264
Half-Life's writer and designer, as well as the lead animator since 1996 have also left Valve.
Same for the environmental artist.
>>340220178
Nobody but me knows Valve is a lot like Microsoft, all the UI and UX were designed by engineers and programmers. Which also leads to the other part where Valve and Steam have almost no sense of quality assurance and everything just looks like Walmart tier.
>>340220713
It doesn't matter, the news is fake.
The video was removed, and now gaffers are calling it out. Not that they are that credible but random youtube channels with no source aren't credible either.
>>340220637
>It's always been dead.
Lower player count, but far from fucking dead.
DoD and Quake are examples of dead.
>it's an OP 'doesn't provide source for bullshit claims' Episode
>>340221014
>i just emailed him
>no proof
>>340214649
FUCK YEAH, ORIGIN'S TIME WILL BE STARTING RIGHT NOW.
>>340214982
Can't help but wonder how many people at Valve have diabetes...
Be real, Nintendo has a better chance of dying than Valve does. But in all likelihood we're stuck with both.
Valve won't ever make games again. They have made a system, that children accept, that allows them to literally make millions of dollars each on a monthly basis while doing nothing but basic server maintenance and troubleshooting. Why invest the billions you're making into new, cool, innovative IP's and games when you can just sit at your desk and watch your bank statement go up in real time?
Valve is the George Lucas of Video Games.
>tfw I don't mind Valve not making games anymore, as long as they continue supporting DOTA and TF2
I don't care if you dislike the concept of them milking children of money so they can sell cosmetics. It's a good business model, and I've made a mint selling crap like that too. Plus, I get free updates for TF2, and I couldn't be happier.
I'd rather they go out on a good note than keep rehashing Mario, or Call of Duty, or Uncharted.
>>340221101
I agree but since the video and article were removed it's clear that they were mistaken.
>people think Steam will ever die when they're not even a public company, they barely have any expenses and they're FUCKING GETTING 30% OUT OF EVERY SINGLE GAME SOLD ON STEAM, AND 10% FROM EVERY SINGLE MICROTRANSACTION
>>340221361
so basically, no proof on either side
safe to assume it's still as it was 1 month ago - both are still at valve
>>340216862
>Do these guys just sit on their asses writing new TF2 comic plots while a couple of interns pump out unoptimized hat models?
hahahahahaha if only
we haven't even gotten the 7th issue of the "bi-monthly" tf2 comic that premiered like three years ago
and they don't even make hats anymore, they just pull random workshop entries out of ahatonce every few months and call it a day
fuck valve
>>340221287
>undertale poster
>says something retarded.
Hmmm
>>340216862
Valve doesn't make hats anymore - they just use community created hats and make them 'official'.
I'm not even joking. Valve literally doesn't make games anymore except pump out skins for DotA and CSGO.
>>340221909
Hey, if Sony+Ms can charge you 100 bucks a year for online (which isn't even secure) and Nintendo can charge money for amiibos and lock content behind them, then I don't see the problem behind Valve earning money for cosmetics.
>b-but they don't make games
Better that than rehashing games that turn out terrible.
>>340217023
this
>>340222078
>Just because one bad practice is okay, Valve is completely justified in perpetuating said practice
Dumb CDPR poster.
>>340221909
>he'd rather be forced to constantly buy shit to play the game at all than have autistic hat addicts happily pay for the game for him
>he calls anyone else retarded
Why can't they just tell us how the story would have finished? I don't even want another game at this point I just want closure.
>CDProjekt
>Owns GOG
>Digital store that probably makes a fuckton of money
>Still apply the money to the studio to make awesome shit like Witcher 3 which as of now has over 200+ hours of content
>Doubling their staff to work on Cyberpunk 2077 and other projects
>Valve
>Owns Steam
>Biggest digital store on the PC market, literally makes more money than god
>No new games for years
>Only multiplayer slot machines now with 99% of the content being made by the community and all they have to do is push a button to put it in the game, while the cucks who made the items only get 25%
>Actual updates for those games getting meager and less frequent, way less actual content, bring on more cosmetics
>A lot of staff leaving the company recently
I mean for fucks sake I know you can just lay back and make a fuckton of money but at least CDProjekt for instance has the decency to keep fucking going and pushing themselves to make better quality games, fuck Valve the lazy cunts
>>340222354
Wrong
CDPR is looking to imitate valve
They're not so big that they can stop making games yet.
Gog pales to steam
>>340216862
They maintain a billion dollar digital distribution service. Not quite as exciting as developing games but it probably takes a lot of work.
>>340222354
gog makes no money at all
no game with denuvo will ever get there
no important aaa game will ever be there
>>340222294
but what are they doing that's bad?
The paid mods, you got me there. But "not making games" isn't a crime.
>>340222419
By no means that's what he implied, read again.
>>340216734
You and I, my friend. We're probably the only ones here who appreciated Old Man Murray's greatness. And we're both probably over 30. I know I am.
>>340222595
GOG literally has a whole marketing division dedicated to shilling 4chan and the other chan.
>>340222294
What's wrong with selling cosmetics?
>>340215309
This vid went private. What was it?
>>340222798
Valve Time Youtube "PodCast" thing.
>>340214982
SHE DOESN'T MAKE EYE CONTACT WITH ME
>>340222758
The worst thing that could be argued is that it takes time and money away from optimizing the game's code, but Valve at least releases constant updates that fix the game issues. They're just not that good at tackling the really big issues, and I doubt removing cosmetics would help.
>>340222798
valve time got tricked and they took the video down when they realized
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt0w9YP_wZ0
>>340222798
That video is the only thing backing up the OP's claim.
>>340219526
I laughed at the Linux nerds thinking Valve jumping on would get ERRYBODY onto Linux. Yeah, just like iD and Epic did in 90-05's. OH WAIT.
>>340220713
don't forget Viktor Anatov, the fucking lead art director...I wish I lived in a world where Valve got off its fucking fat bloated ass and actually finished the franchise we all grew up and loved.
>>340222998
How long did it take for Valve to sort of 'fix' CSGO, again?
For TF2 only just now are they making changes the community has requested for YEARS now and that's only because they're threatened by Overwatch.
It's obvious they only care about cosmetics since it's easy money.
>>340222078
Sony and MS at least make fun games my fellow Slavshit.
>>340214649
You forgot valve actually owns steam
>>340222737
>italics on 4chan
? ? ?
>>340223691
newfag
>>340223298
>How long did it take for Valve to sort of 'fix' CSGO, again?
The game is playable in it's current state, enough to garner several hundred thousand players constantly. I don't see anything majorly wrong.
>For TF2 only just now are they making changes the community has requested for YEARS now and that's only because they're threatened by Overwatch.
Oh really? Because they've put out stable updates since 2010, before Overwatch was even in development, and they actively playtest and work on the game. And if the community didn't want reskins and hats, why are they selling so well? It's what people want.
I don't think it justifies it, but Valve at least listens. It's like with paid mods too. When the fans lashed out angrily at the botched concept, Valve removed it.
>>340223447
>dudebro call of duty clones
>cinematic hallway simulators
>"fun games"
Yeah, sure thing friend.
>people thinks SteamOS will kill windows 10
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA wait you retards thinks Linuxshit could make a dent on Windows market? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>>340222737
/v/ has no ids though
>>340223868
Do you play either of these games? Because you seem to not know anything about them and thinking that just because they're 'operational' that Valve is doing it's job when the argument is that they could use the time spent coming up with microtransactions to improve their game.
Making Half Life 3 would be a mistake at this point. There's no way it could ever live up to our expectations, and it would only serve to piss people off and turn them off from Valve.
At least in the current situation, people still have hope.
>>340224141
>the argument is that they could use the time spent coming up with microtransactions to improve their game.
And if you looked at TF2 or Counterstrike from years ago, you'd find that the games are vastly improved.
>b-but the cosmetics abloo abloo
Yeah, look past that for a second. You'll see all the weapon balance changes, the glitch patches, the new maps, the new content in general. For example, weapon switching in TF2 is now much better for all classes, the puff and sting pyro AND the phlog have been reasonably nerfed while giving his regular flamethrower a bit of boost in power. Heavy can now break a sentry nest much better, spy now has better mobility, demoman and soldier have been reasonably nerfed (blast radius nerfs helped keep the air strike and beggars).
Are these all bad things?
>>340213841
>2016
>still giving a fuck about Half-Life
When will this meme ever end?
>>340224615
>And if you looked at TF2 or Counterstrike from years ago, you'd find that the games are vastly improved.
Taking 3+ years to improve your game doesn't sound wrong to you? When the fixes are easy but they focused on selling cosmetics instead?
I'm done talking with you. Just another pathetic Valvedrone no different from GoGdrones.
>>340214649
>Completely forgot about SteamOS, Steam machine, and steam controller
I just realized how shitty all those things sold
>>340224732
>Taking 3+ years to improve your game doesn't sound wrong to you?
Considering the amount of fixes present, that's more than acceptable. Nevermind the fact that they're STILL supporting a 10 year old game without asking additional money for mandatory updates.
Meanwhile, how's Nintendo's updates on Super Smash Brothers Brawl? How's From Software's updates on Dark Souls 1? Whatever happened to Halo 3's updates? Oh right, they all stopped.
but don't worry guys, Valve is the bad guy here. *wink wink*
So fucking what? What was the last relevant thing they've done? Those dudes probably got bored of making TF2 hats.
>>340224732
are you saying there's a cutoff point to improving a video game?
how about you stop replying to me or else I'll report you to the moderators
>>340213841
Fake
sage and report thread
>>340214649
Valve is just a company that owns a store.
The store, in fact.
I take your point though, Valve is no longer a game company.
![logo[1].gif](https://i.imgur.com/nohY0lb.gif "logo[1].gif")
After chet's bout with Chron's, I don't see Erik or Chet willingly parting from valve.
But on the other hand, I want to see more of Erik's work in games. It's frustrating, I know he's well off working for valve, but I also want to see many games with his work showcased in them.
As such, him leaving Valve wouldn't be the worst thing in the world if he was leaving to join a studio that could give him some canvas to fill. I mean, when's Valve going to actual start making games again?
But it's probably all fake anyways so who cares.
>>340225173
yes if it makes you lose money
>here at valve we have a very flexible company structure, you can work on anything you want
>"please mr newell, can we make a new game, i'm tired of hats and weapon skins"
>"no erik, don't make me give you bowel cancer and sexually abuse your kids again. eat your pink cookie and implement paid mods again you worthless slut"
It's okay though because valve do it.
>>340216752
What incentive would they ever have to be bought out or go public? They already make a fuckton of cash and don't have deal with bullshit like shareholders to appease.
>>340213841
The guy who actually wrote half life left valve like a few months ago already
>>340224104
android and OSX is already killing windows so nobody cares
>>340226279
the story for hl3 was probably written ages ago
>>340219264
>These guys doesn't have any relation with half life development.
Eric Wolpaw is the writer!
*grabs you by the neck and slams you into a wall*
THE HEAD WRITER!
*slams your skull against the wall, cracking some bones*
THE HEAD FUCKING WRITER!
*bashes your face against the corner until it's reduced to a bloody mess*
BYE BYE! NOW YOU DIE DIE! ERIC WOLPAW WAS THE HEAD WRITER! BYE BYE! DIE DIE!
*smashes your STUPID FUCKING SKULL against the floor until you DIE!!!!*
>>340226538
>>340226538
Take your ERP to /a or /d, you huge faggot.
>>340214649
DOTA isn't going anywhere. GO is getting bigger, etc.
They never took any chances on Machines, all losses are on OEMs, Valve just gives them the right to use Steam logo and Steam Machine trademark. SteamOS is exists purely so they can can license Machines without paying 3rd party for licensing or support.
etc.
Steam is doing great. PC enthusiast market is slowly growing and they have nowhere to go, but Steam. We already have SteamOS, it's called Windows, Valve doesn't even need to pay anything for tech support or any other expenses.
>>340216008
What kind of idiot thinks working for valve is a bad job
>>340227749
I think gabe doesn't like the whole windows 10 app store ethier as far as the steam os goes.
>>340224878
Steam Controller sold over 500k units you retard
>>340228005
Gabe doesn't like competition, what a surprise.
He started to rally against MS with Windows 8, my money on Windows 8 app store.
Gabe might be greedy, but he's not stupid, he will try to diversify his investments and Linux is a backup plan. He still makes business with MS, they partnered on a lot of stuff, including VR, he knows MS won't do anything drastic, but he will keep up his appearances battling "evil archnemesis" MS.
>>340226279
well the story was already done, now the devs are just finishing up the rest of the game
tfw you can finally kill yourself when episode 3 comes outguess I get to live a long life
>>340228448
>but he will keep up his appearances battling "evil archnemesis" MS.
Except he hasn't. Pretty sure he reached an accord with MS.
Or he would have criticized MS along with Tim Sweeny
i don't care about half life 3, I want L4D3
I want to know what happens to the L4D2 survivors, and see if the new survivors in L4D3 find a cure
>>340229136
>Or he would have criticized MS along with Tim Sweeny
Did you miss the bit where I said he's not stupid? Sweeny got his ass handed to him by Spencer in under 3 minutes. None of his points were valid or even true. And then he went for another round just to be knocked down by Spencer again. He ended up saying he's wrong on all accounts, Spencer is telling the truth and he trusts him, but he still doesn't trust MS.
Gabe also got an actual competitor in the form of Facebook. He focused his attention there.
>>340217908
>I'm going to make an image today
>Let me post every single fucking thing I possibly can into 2032x4889
Be concise.
>>340229509
Is ld2 worth getting on steam, is there still a strong community?
>>340229768
I got it for free and still didn't think it was worth it.
>>340228448
>ms doesn't like competition, what a surprise
>they started to rally against steam with windows 8 app store
ftfy
>>340229509
Spoiler, they die, they dont cure it. Have to keep it open for more shit halfass Valve sequels
>>340229768
>>340229884
I wouldn't call it a "Strong community" but you'll always have plenty of populated servers to join.
>>340230682
that's another way to look at things.
Your viewpoint will have some more validity when Valve releases some games on MS Windows Store.
>>340226538
>>340215914
That's life, m8. People die with regrets all the time.
if they were writing any single player shit then their work would long be over.
>>340213841
I don't even know what Valve is anymore. They used to be at the fucking vanguard of PC gaming, they brought in a renaissance with every release. Now? They're almost as bad as Konami, they're just lowkey about it. Most people have barely even noticed what a husk they've become. They've essentially let everything they've built rot and really haven't done jack shit in years except run steam and sell cosmetic items for the few aging multiplayer games they still have active. It doesn't even make me mad, even. Just hollow disappointment.
>>340214649
>the end of valve
>make hundreds of millions every month just from key and skin sales
>>340216338
>le d44m is good meme
Fuck off cuck
>>340214649
you forgot they still have the darth vader grip on PC gaming with Steam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF57MAaVVpw
>>340219748
More like MGSV a mod of PES considering PES14 used Fox before MGSV came out.
>>340217097
>compendium is selling at a all time slow speed
>thousand asking for region locked servers
>many people are just simply dropping the game all together
To make matters worse for valve I guess the market is dying at snail pace
>>340233005
Vanguard?
They jumped in when Digital Distribution on PC started to take off, Steam, Gamer's Gate(store, not the other one), etc. Mind you, Steam started off as a management tool for Half-Life 2 mods and stuff.
They released several games exclusive for their platform, cornered the market and just sat there, doing jack shit. Now they have a whole economy where people can sell virtual items for virtual currency to get virtual versions of games. And a blind following with a cult status to boot. Steam and Valve are icons or saints by this point. Nothing they do will hurt them, unless they'll go full retarded.
Mods didn't hurt them. Their fiasco in EU gave us refunds, but now people are saying Valve wanted refunds all along. They keep appearance they support open standards, but they often do it by making up their own standards instead of using already well established and widely used ones.
Valve is still Valve, they just don't have to try anymore.
>>340214649
Fool, Valve will never die.
>>340229768
>is there still a strong community
Unfortunately the L4D community is among the most cancerous there is. I have no idea why, but the pub players that L4D attracts are just fucking awful. Poor to no skills, extremely obnoxious, and somehow elitist about their lack of skills, just to top it off. They'll spend the whole match screaming at you while you're carrying the team to make up for the two out of four players that split apart and ran ahead and immediately got pounced, and the third player being a drooling retard that can't move and shoot at the same time.
And versus is worse. Oh god, is versus ever worse.
>>340219526
I didn't even know SteamOS was done or that Steam machines were released until just now.
Did it really bomb that hard?
>>340216008
I'd scrub toilets at Valve before being lead designer at EA.
>>340223447
They don't make jack shit anon.
Third party and second party does all the work for Sony and they make okayish games.
Second party only makes shit for Microsfoft
>>340235185
Steam machines probably do as well as any pre-fab gaming PC, Steam Link works okay for the small use cases it was made for and SteamOS/Steam Controller just flat out suck.
Vive's pretty good, though. Hopefully they're making games for it.
>>340235185
SteamOS and Steam machine have always been valve's backup plan. They put forward a minimum amount of advertising and otherwise haven't really put too much effort into them. They "bombed" in the sense that steamOS isn't installed on every other system and steam machines aren't in every home, but I don't think valve really cares about that, they're content to have it in the background to pull out if microsoft tries to pull some bullshit in the future. Steam machines are sold by third parties who absorb all the costs and risks, so even if they only sold one system it'd be a net gain for steam, who just got a new customer. So overall I wouldn't say they bombed, at least as far as valve's concerned.
>>340235817
This, the whole point of SteamOS and Linux gaming is to offer a viable platform and ecosystem in case Microsoft goes full closed platform. i don't think Valve ever expected Linux to supersede Windows just yet, it was more of a warning to Microsoft that they no longer have an monopoly on PC gaming.
>>340213841
Why do you lie?
https://mobile.twitter.com/chetfaliszek/status/739970877740060672
>>340223447
>MS
>makes games
Why do people talk about things they know nothing about?
>Portal
a literal meme game. They LITERALLY tried to create memes with this game. the day portal 2 released there were "SPAAAACE" shirts on the Valve store.
Good riddance
>>340233842
>compendium is selling at a all time slow speed
>being this retarded
>>340236409
Underage
>>340213841
>>340214649
They are drowning in money from steam alone, those were all experimental ventures
You're all retarded
http://www.valvetime.net/threads/erik-wolpaw-still-at-valve-retracting-our-round-up.255093/
>>340236574
>it's more grindy and jewish than ever, but still going to sell more
>>340222528
Does it though? With greenlight, curators and cosmetics for their games largely being player made it seems like most of what Valve has done lately is minimize the amount of work that they actually have to do, which begs the question of what they're actually doing instead. League is trash gameplay wise but to their credit at least they have a steady output of content, both champions and skins. The Dota 2 devs don't have to worry about making skins and they still haven't managed to release a new hero in god knows how long despite still having a few more Dota 1 heroes left, which are already fully designed gameplay wise and have a basic visual concept. It doesn't take 6 months to model and animate a single character.
