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When Gabe dies, how much do you want to bet valve is going to suddenly want to start working on half life 3? Only to produce a buggy shallow generic AAA title with micro transactions? I’m hoping I’m wrong, but I’m a little cynical about the whole gaming industry these days.
You are aware the Gabe was there when Hats and Karambits were added to TF2 and CS:GO?
Newell isn’t some saint, he’s running an obscenely profitable business. The games Valve are actually maintaining, CS2 and DOTA2, both have a lot of microtransactions. I really don’t understand why you’re making out that Valve would never add MTX until some evil corpo suit takes over after Gabe’s death.
I’m not saying it’s perfect. I’m saying it could get much much worse. That’s all. Valve is a breath of fresh air in comparison to other corporations and publishers at the moment. Steam deck, valve index, the steam platform in general.
Steam is why they don’t make games anymore.
They’re retailers now.
I was okay with hats and cosmetics in TF2. Didn’t play CS:GO, but I’d be okay with that as well. It’s just cosmetics and you can unlock every single one of them through playing or crafting. It had zero effect on the game play. When different weapons were added I found them to be refreshing and a new lease on life for the old game. It’s stupid and silly but it was fun.
CS:GO cosmetics appear to be obtained by gambling with real money.
I put a few thousand hours into Dota 2 and never spent any money on it, didn’t feel much pressure or any desire to since idc about cosmetics. I think it’s great though, if a game is free and other people who care about visual skins subsidize it for you.
It’s still a private company, so if he has a worthy follower it’s not going to happen. Let’s just hope there is someone to start running valve like it’s supposed to
Gabe’s choice of successor is arguably going to be one of the most important decisions in gaming, ever. Crazy to say, but finding someone who can maintain course and propel the medium without getting greedy is likely gonna be tough. Gabe always had vision, or at least hired people who did and listened to them. Hope he makes the right call.
Not sure, whether this is possible in the US and how to correctly translate that…
A company in the area where I live had a founder, that feared, that his company might change to a new (more capitalistic/ “evil”/generic) corporate culture, when he would eventually step down and some other manager takes over. So, when he resigned, he transferred all his shares I to a trust? foundation? endowment? to make sure his vision and culture stays with the company as this legal entity enforces it.
You can’t build an empire if you’re, at the same time, cashing it out.
Counter Strike?
They didn’t create CS
Sure profit from the loot boxes
CS:GO, they did. As well as CS the game, but not the mod. Also people who made original CS are all employed by Valve, so they weren’t just part of the company at the time.
Even CSGO was originally made by Hidden Path. CS2 and CS:S are the only ones fully made by Valve (+community maps/skins). Regardless the series itself was not made by Valve, they hired the original mod team after it was already a popular HL1 mod.
Half Life Forever
There are no haters like fans. Valve quit while they were ahead. Otherwise you get franchises that are reskinned versions of the same old crap and flogged to death, the only new things added are ways the company tries to insert micro transactions or whatever else to get you to shell out cash for skins or DLC packs.
Storylines get wrecked some way, somehow or dissected by fans for being “too much “ this or “too little” that, or worse yet the dev sticks a Jar Jar Binks in it.
Nah. They did the right thing. The only thing worse than not getting the game would be actually getting it.
May not fit perfectly, but Halo series comes to mind.
Perhaps they are good because they have been left alone like a fine wine?
Good thing wine doesn’t have a hacker problem like TF2.
Wine doesn’t age in the bottle.
You can get “neglect”
Or you can get a perversion of a once good game for profit.
Modern gaming, baby.
Or you could’ve bought Left 4 Dead 2 and still get bug fixes.
Or you could’ve bought Garry’s Mod and still get feature updates (most servers are shit, with pay-to-win mod packs, but the base game hasn’t changed)
They don’t ignore or neglect Half-Life, TF2, Counter-Strike or DOTA2. All these continue to receive updates (Half-Life just recently got a complete overhaul for its 25th anniversary and the other 3 are their bread and butter money makers and receive regular updates).
Only Portal, Richochet, Alien Swarm and L4D get ignored.
Artifact mate, though i guess no one cares about that
I never even heard of it until now. Truly, uncared about.
Yeah I am not even sure what it was tbh, I think it was their Hearthstone with a DotA theme
Or was it a dota autochess spinoff who knows
Don’t quote me on these, but iirc, it was a Hearthstone and Magic competitor co-developed by Richard Garfield who is one of the two “inventors” of Magic. The game flopped hard, though, because the barrier of entry was too high by requiring an upfront purchase of the game in addition to booster packs which were outrageously expensive too. And the gameplay was also kinda bad.
TF2, Counter-Strike
Nah man. TF2 is unplayable outside of community servers because of all the cheaters and spinbots, and CS2 is just a CSGO update that killed community servers and removed a significant amount of content.
I mean they did do a lot of work for CS but at the end of the day only 1 of their 3 flagship multiplayer games are being properly taken care of
Lmfao TF2? Really? You mean the game with a severe hacking/botting problem?
We got one, it was great. We got another, it was also great. We got yet another, also awesome. Another one after that, beautiful. And not to say that nothing else they’ve done isn’t also worthy of praise.
We’ve just become spoiled and accustomed to the Marvel/Disney reboot and sequel plague that’s made everything trash.
Appreciate what we were given, fellas, it might simply be over.
Which ones?
Half Life, Portal, Left4Dead, Counterstrike, DOTA2? Or am I misunderstanding
It appears that, like Valve, you have neglected Team Fortress
Ricochet, Day of Defeat, Death Match Classic, and Alien Swarm obviously /s
Alien swarm is amazing
HL Portal and L4D definitely. Pretty sure Dota and CS get plenty of attention. But let’s be honest, do we really want those franchises turning into clusterfuck cash grabs like halo, modern warfare, name a sports game?
Team fortress 2?
Yeah I guess it’s true. They in fact do owe us something /s
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