>make new engine
>don't do anything with it
I want to believe. I want to believe Valve and Gaben and everyone over there at valve HQ are preparing something absolutely brilliantly epic
>Source 2 engine, better than all current engines combined and easier to use
>sudden release of all the 3's in the series
>dominate with innovations in the VR market
but they haven't been delivering shit, for a LONG time. Ever since they dug the goldmine of hats and crates, the company has been resembling EA lately.
fuck you kojima
>>334384715
It's not done. If it was I'd imagine games like Titanfall 2 would be using Source 2 instead of an in house version of Source
>>334384715
Valves internal structure is incapable of creating anything significant or substantial in scope or execution.
Enjoy your hat/skin/community created content sims.
But they have done something with it.
>>334385314
What? Release some new models for Dota 2? That's hardly worth making an entirely new engine for.
>>334385015
>Ever since they dug the goldmine of hats and crates, the company has been resembling EA lately.
Except EA shits out every half-assed idea it can imagine to monetize.
Valve operates so fundamentally different, the time they take and hitherto took is no indicator of them not doing anything.
>>334384715
dota 2 is using sauce 2 engine
>>334387658
dota isnt a real game
>>334384715
But Dota 2 is running on source 2 :^^)
>>334387658
And that's great, but Dota already existed. When can we see something new and interesting?
>>334388480
They have to be doing SOMETHING with it. There's no reason to make a new engine from the ground up, with a new renderer, and release it for free, if you're not going to make a game or something with it.
>orange box 2 releases $150
>portal 3
>tf3
>half life 3
>left for dead 3
Would print money
>>334384715
The difference is we beg Valve to release games.
We beg EA to stop.
>>334388668
They can release a few knife skins for CSGO and a compendium for Dota and make as much money without doing anything
>>334385204
>have a kojima
>fire him
reminder
Valve's "open" structure and hippie commune like approach to development has finally bit them in the ass.
Everyone sits on their own little island and do whatever the fuck they feel like. That's great, nut it's not how you develop games.
They got lucky with how successful Steam got and how slow the industry was to react to it.
Now they're sitting on a pile of money and nothing to motivate anyone to actually make new shit.This is a case of source: my ass, but in my experience you generally need a manager of some sort in that type of environment
>>334389292
Its a private company.
As long as the owners are happy making money with 0 effort they wont make big games.
Valve/Steam don't need to do anything.
Dota 2, CS:GO basically print money for them. People buy crates, keys, some of the profit goes to Steam then to Valve.
It's a never ending cycle of a shitrope. The more rope your climb, the thinner the shitrope gets.
>>334389292
Valve have over 300 employees, they can't all be just sitting on their asses. Even if they were only going to make hats and knives from now on, they wouldn't need 300 employees for that.
>>334385280
Valve is the Reddit of video games. Just think about this for a minute and upvote my post.
>>334389641
Most private companies in vidya would love to have Valve's budget and talent to develop, though. They'd jump at the chance to make something great.
>>334389813
Be realistic anon, what has valve released in the last 9 years?
A standalone version of a WC3 map, and a new standalone version of a half-life mod.
>>334385015
They aren't.
Most of the staff that worked on Half Life 2 has quit. Even the head writer left due to boredom.
>>334389292
>Valve's "open" structure and hippie commune like approach to development has finally bit us in the ass.
Fixed.
Last time I checked the company makes BILLIONS annually and its employees just fuck around all day and getting paid exceptionally well for basically just being pic related.
For everyone working at Valve it is heaven on earth.
They are doing a sort of VR tech demo with it
>>334384715
More like:
>make billions by ripping of mods with shit quality
>don't even invest into proper game development afterwards
Icefrog, I am looking at you with your 6 years beta.
>>334389813
I think most of them are just creating small bits and bobs of content these days, if any of them ARE making games they certainly aren't getting anywhere with it.
Their origins were Micro$hit so it really has just come full circle.
>>334385015
>epic
Stopped reading there, end your life
>>334386595
>>334385015
they're worse than ea. at least ea has customer support. A number you can call and an online chat
valve has neither
>>334392296
EA had game refunds ages before Valve as well.
Portal, Half-Life, L4D, and Counter Strike are all huge cash-cows. Sure, they make lots of money on hats, but they could make shitloads of money with just a little effort by making sequels to those games, especially if they're on a new engine.
