What the fuck happened to them?

What the fuck happened to them?

>Last game release was 3 years ago and it was a reskinned mod
>Steam Machines flopped
>Steam controller flopped
>VR flopped

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Steam provide them with infinite money so they just sit their asses off and eat sandwiches all day.

They're jews now. They stopped being game developers long ago. If you haven't given up on them by now, I feel sorry for you.

Steam prints money.
At this point Steam is almost a rival in OS developers like Microsoft and Apple.
No one will beat Samsung however.

they are taking their time on HL#. which is more than I can say for most greedy devs who push out a new game every year

Aren't they making lfd3?

Just accept the fact that HL3 isn't in active development and move on. The game is never coming out because Valve no longer cares.

They're making too much money to bother with creating new games.

You forgot

>graphics and performance have gotten consistently worse over time in dota 2
>they could have literally done nothing and this wouldn't have happened

they are making it, they've talked about it and havent even publicly released the engine that HL3 is on 9source 2)

Yes.

Valve makes like a billion dollars each year just from Steam they can afford to be lazy and do experimental shit like steam machine.

Same fucking thing in tf2
they added more and more shit in the game like CSGO skin (yeah, one of the worst update that completely destroyed TF2 artstyle forever) that were not optimized at all including maps (Suijin.. worst optimization of them all.)

I cringe when i see that r/tf2 just accept the practice of valve with tf2, adding skin for example and they ask for more.

You would think that having every investment they make in hardware flop would tell them we just want them to make fucking videogames, but apparently not.

I blame the fact that Gaben is fat. Fat people are lazy, this is just a fact, so why put effort into creating something when you can sit back and make millions selling cosmetic bullshit.
You really need to stop living with this much denial.

>Last game release was 3 years ago and it was a reskinned mod
>Steam Machines flopped
>Steam controller flopped
>VR flopped
What about Steam being a hyper-successful moneymaker? What else does a for-profit corporation need?

Money happened. Now they just fuck around in the Valve building like it's the fucking moomin house.

Maybe that's the cause of it. Their recent attempts at creating something failed, so they said fuck it, threw up their hands and just let the Steam dosh roll in.

The money's already coming in, so why bother? Valve went full publisher years and years ago, but people still talk about Valve as if it's a dev studio

Then their not completely dead

>you will never work at valve and do nothing all day while making 6 figures

>Implying there's anything wrong with retiring from game development to run the worlds best digital distribution resource

>6 figures is a lot
Maybe if you're underage or in your early twenties.

Valve are trying shit they shouldn't try to do, like VR, shitty consoles and joysticks and probably some other shit. They only care about Dota 2 right now. With unlimited flow of money they can give no fucks to game development at all.

>Print money, literally
>Flop

user you realize 7 figures is 1 million dollars, right? nobody gets a 1 million dollar salary that's retarded

suijin is community-created, I would argue their are maps which are much worse like the ones that spam lighting effects.

High 5 figures is a lot. That is all there is to it.
But the figures statement is useless when it covers 10000 to 99999.

100k a year is six figures, and that's barely middle class.

And a house is 200k-500k.

>Aren't they making lfd3?
they are, which is even worse since its the last game people want from them
also even thats is not sure, we know its in production, but we have no clue if valve is making it or its like cs go, case, valve only publishing and supplying the engine

Making games aren't profitable anymore.

However charging people to SELL their games is.

Oh and microtransations.

What the hell are they even working on? What do these dozens (hundreds?) of people do all day? They never do any important CSGO updates and Steam functions just as poorly as it did five years ago.

l4d3
hl3

>they are, which is even worse since its the last game people want from them

I'd rather have a new, fresh L4D than a sequel to a glorified physics engine demo.

Last game by Valve is The Lab, and it's just 5 months old.

It's awesome by the way, but poorfags like you can't VR.

They aren't going to do shit until Dota 2's bubble pops
Mind that the prizepool is onlya QUARTER of the money they got
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This, it's sad to see how much Sup Forums keeps bullshitting about Valve's current status when we are well aware that they are still working on projects.

It doesn't matter how much money they make, Valve is a company that likes to innovate first before making a game. For all the games you want to see from them come out, they need their moment for innovation to come first.

fuck me i forgot the steam machine was even a thing, it had pretty much zero advertisements

>Valve is still good! You just need to buy into the VR meme! What are you poor or something!?

MOOMIN MENTIONED

I don't get it. Steam is obviously making huge amounts of money. What does steam invest in if they are not making games? Does the money just sit in a bank account collecting $500 every minute?

>OP proved to be wrong
>move goalpost

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Bossless culture
Gabe died inside
Steam market money laundry service

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>What does steam invest in if they are not making games? Does the money just sit in a bank account collecting $500 every minute?
VR nigga, they've put all their eggs on it an is the main reason why they aren't making games.

I would legit want a samsung steam phone

Dota 2 and CS:GO are good. TF2 is still alive. So I don't know what the problem is, I don't care about their gimmicky shit. I look forward to Left 4 Dead 3.

Fuck you OP the steam streaming box is basically a chromecast on steroids

One time two years ago I bullied a moomim poster and I still feel bad about it

I'm sorry moomin user ;_;

they found the bare minimum they need to do while still be profitable
anything else they dip their hands into is just an uncommitted half-assed attempt to secure rights for the next potential trend/gimmmick

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Valve wanted to diversify out of just being software. Gaben and other industry leaders like that guy who owns the company that develops Unreal were all saying that CEO Pajeet over at M$ was going to try to seriously fuck up the Industry again by launching a new Games For Windows Live again--which they DID try to do with the Windows 10 Store--but M$ being incompetent fucks who never learn from their mistakes caused Win10 Store to be the same shit as GFWL was and no one uses that shit so it flopped again.

Gaben thought he'd throw money at getting developers to begin doing native Linux ports for their games and striking up a collaboration with those overpriced AlienWare PC faggots to make Steambox which would have the Steam's Linux OS installed instead of a stripped-down version of Windows like what the Xbox and Playstation run under the hood.

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Gaben figured out it costs literally zero to just add community made skins to an already completed game which makes them hundreds of millions a year.

moomin posters are easily saddened, but it's okay, they just go on an inane adventure.


fuck I love moomin

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They monetized fucking emoticons.


They will never release another game.

Idk
Shame really.
CSGO literally has 4 devs working on it
TF2 has a janitor as the lead developer
Dota is the only game they have with compitent devs
Most of the staff is "working" on VR yet they still fucked it up by not release any ACTUAL games for it.

At this point i think that company is literally run by a baboon.

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>they still fucked it up by not release any ACTUAL games for it.
I think most of this is oculus's fault. If valve didn't release their shit oculus would've dominated the entire market and the vive would become completely obsolete right after.
This is the sad bad side of having "competition" with your products.
The good side is that supposedly the quality of both products should increase in order for them to compete better, but so far vr has really let down in that aspect.

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Any rare snufkins? this is the best I've got.

snufkin is not for meming

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GabeN

It may not make you a billionaire but it's fucking good enough.

Sup Forums. killing my childhood, one cartoon at a time.

I mean, that's what I'd do. It;s not they owe us anything, they're a fucking video game/software company.

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>exploding Crapsung is a meme

There wouldn't be anything wrong with that if they hadn't left one of their biggest titles on a 10 year cliffhanger.

ok mr. soros