>have a corporate setup that basically lets employees do whatever they want
>could be releasing hundreds of small "indie" games a year
>do nothing, just update the cash cows
i seriously dont understand whats going on, why are they not releasing many small games each employee wants to make? Isnt that the purpose of their corporate culture?
The purpose of their corporate culture is to make money
They got lazy and have a easy way of making money. I wouldn't do shit that requires work either
Why bother? They basically print money with Steam. It's like the people who made Kickstarter, they don't have to do shit anymore
go to glassdoor and read the employees opinions. valve being the industry's eldorado is one of the biggest memes around.
their Rockstar Ninja Epic Coding Gurus, by virtue of the 'nobody is a manager' management, are free to spend their talents on changing the blue storefront to a slightly different shade of blue every eight months
But what about the passion to create games? Are you telling me it's a lie, no such thing exists?
They do, they just let other people make it and release it on their popular Steam service
making HL3 is, like, difficult
what if
what if the NOW BROADCASTING text, that every single steam member knows about and uses daily, was in a slightly different place on the screen
CSGO is pretty good
I don't think they understand just how fucking lucrative Half Life 3 on a new engine could be.
It's guaranteed to sell several million copies immediately, but that's just the start.
You release it with high quality mod tools. Modders come out with mods. Valve hires them and gets them to make paid versions of those mods.
Currently their 3 biggest games started as mods. They should be empowering modders in the Steam environment so they can scoop them up and get them to make games for them.
What do you even do if you work for Valve? They do fucking nothing nowadays, other than Steam.
it sheds some light on what's going on with hl3
Hmm. You could either do very little work and get paid, or do a whole bunch of work and get paid the same. That's a tough one. Really makes you think.
it's a good thing this useless retard or dumb bitch was fired, also I dont see anything wrong about valve from reading that butthurt mini blog
grow up
So how much money did you make lately?
Valve doesn't need to hire the modders in order to get money out of their mods anymore.
They've already exercised their passion. Counter-Strike is eternal, DOTA2 us a legendary esport, Robin got to make his flaming hats, etc. They're just cruising now.
at some point in any enterprise, someone has to take responsiblity and do stuff
however valve apparently empowers people to huddle up and passive-aggressively crowd out anyone who doesn't agree with the group
which can be good, in some ways, but can also be a pain in the rear when you're on the wrong side of the popularity competition
'how dare you suggest my time could be better spent handling support tickets, i'm researching shades of blue for the store front. go wheel your desk into the corner and write ad copy for this next batch of tf2 hats until you're sorry'
Everyone with passion has left already.
Because they make easy money from steam
There is no need to make games because it costs money and effort
why dont you go suck suck nigger dicks you dumb faggot
you dont need passion when you have a mountain of gold
they now have a passion for Hawaii
>i seriously dont understand whats going on
I suspect if we dug deeper we would find some nasty tinfoil hat conspiracy shit about the government/NSA/CIA being involved and money laundering.
You don't just employ over 200 people in your PRIVATELY HELD company with a yearly income of $60k+ each and don't do JACKSHIT all day every day all those years and just "fuck around and make a hat a week" with a 200+ manpower.
It makes no sense, no matter how you spin it.
Business's only passion is making money
Literally animal farm
>Valve does not want smart thinkers. Incompetent people are the ones deciding who gets hired and who doesn't.
>Probably someone who was selling TVs at best buy a year before with no formal education
Stopped reading there.
Holy shit does anyone actually believe this?
here's another negative one
So it's like soviet Russia's "communism". AYYYY
RIP thread
Can't anyone post these? What evidence is there that this is from an actual employee?
full version here, sorry
you sound like an insufferable cock sucker. you would fit right in at Valve.
I absolutely do. This commie fuckhead used to work for them, but even he got fed up with their Animal Farm communist faggotry.
the rest are overly positive sugarcoated reviews. one thing you can derive from all this is that they sure have a managment problem.
There aren't any shareholders telling them to make more money, even if they weren't satisfied with the billions off Steam.
He was contracted and the result is the whole Steam market thing that's actually functioning.
>i seriously dont understand
that's why you'll never be rich and successful in life
not him but how is that relevant at all?
some random ad hominem?
the positives and negatives are mostly consistent at this point, we can assume them to be true. it's a nice company to work for if you fit into the cliques and in terms of time off, but that same clique structure can lead to mismanagement and personalities overtaking projects. this can lead to projects and games getting abruptly left by the wayside as teams chase after the hot new project to work on. the hardware push is the most obvious example of this but a lot of the tertiary steam features like music and broadcasting feel pointlessly thrown in with no broader vision.
the fact that you think any company could create hundreds of small games a year shows you really don't know anything about how games are made, but the way valve works is that the established cliques and leaders decide what project they want to work on, and you either also want to work on one of those projects or you don't fit in at valve. you're not really going to get free rein to do whatever you want
idiot, high expectations like that are why hl3 will never happen. its the new duke nukem
>there is no passion in game making
>hence the only reason to make games it to make money
>grown ups make money
>so grow up
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
wtf I hate valve now
>going on holiday with your coworkers
Literally defeats the purpose on going on a holiday
[valve coder thinking harder than he's ever thought about anything before] what if ... steam could play music
here's one more
most steam users would eat up any shitty indie trash valve would release, itd make a lot of money
I'd like to know this too. I'm not reading that shit if it's written by some bitter troll who's wasted 2000+ of his life in DOTA.
>company does the thing that makes them the most money for the least investment
>GUYS I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT'S HAPPENING I'M LITERALLY SHAKING RIGHT NOW
Stop being a fucking retard OP
It's mostly how you look at it
I never worked in an office but I enjoyed every holiday with my colleagues from high school and college.
muh diggits
They have two of the best PC games, CS:GO and Dota 2. So whatever they're doing it's working. Dota 2 gets the best support out of any F2P game I've played.
there's no guarantee really, but these reviews have enough things in common to deduce that at least some of these assumptions are true.
Nice.