What happened to Valve, Sup Forums?

What happened to Valve, Sup Forums?

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>Ubisoft is the black guy
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA

Probably just stoned out of their mind

They shifted into an e-commerce company.

>make infinite money taking advantage of kids and idiots with loot boxes and steam marketplace
>never need to make another game
>retarded fanboys still defend you and consider you a god in the industry regardless of how many anti-consumer practices you dabble in

Became Jewish

they realised that they had the opportunity to try all sorts of different things rather than just focusing on making video games. kind of like how google decided to branch out when their search engine got successful.

valve is more of a tech company in the vidya industry than just a plain old vidya developer.

Capitalism is the death of artistic pursuit.

Art is a meme

>artistic pursuit
So you're one of those faglords that make 1 hour long arthouse vignette "games" and gets mad when people won't buy it or refund it?

Valve didn't want to make new games, instead they made virtual hats and a fucking card game

And I don't blame them

Can you honestly say, you wouldn't want free money for doing jack shit?

No, the real culprit is normies and morons playing what is per verbatim gambling, because they don't really understand video games.

Capitalism

money.
why make a game when you make 10x more from hats

They understood the power of microtransactions.
People are paying money for cosmetics at the same rate they would for a one time purchase of a game.
Why bother developing anything?

You sound like a battered housewife.

nice projection my dude

They make enough money from keys for crates these days that they don't have to produce any more games.

What?

Honestly what do the people working at Valve actually do? They have a large amount of very highly qualified people in the company but the few games they have are run with minimal teams and Steam itself doesn't take that much manpower. Do they just raise massive salaries and take their whole families on paid company vacations for spending their time on random projects that never yield anything?

Just one of many examples of why getting too big/popular is a bad thing and always bites consumers in the ass.

How does next become a battered housewife Sup Forums?

...

They'll make games or hand devolopment to 3rd party companies to maintain their image if need be. As of now Steam is all they need to have to rake in cash.

Capitalism has enabled art unlike any other system.

Lootboxes has done more harm to the industry than anything else ever.

It's barely even the same company, most of the important devs already left.

Who fucking cares?

It's more like a specific strain of capitalist ideology that advocates that you find new ways to exploit existing revenue streams rather than actually taking any risks.

You've got it all backwards. All the other store operators are living in a fantasy world kicked back ignoring what's to come.

Valve meanwhile has been hiring people left and right and doing a ton of work to ensure that PC Gaming as we know it today will not simply be destroyed in favor of Microsoft pushing Xbox gaming through their store on an OS where running Steam or any other third party store is impossible.

It's not the 90's anymore gramps, Microsoft already got sued for anti-competitive behavior before and they don't want to get sued again.

>You sound like a battered housewife.

Says the gambler

Valve has a huge reputation for washing people out who don't live up to their work ethic.

If you doubt that Valve employees do anything just take a look at the Mesa GL mailing list some time and you'll see all kinds of patches being submitted by Valve employees to improve performance in games, and occasionally we'll get hints about their new game projects in those posts as well.
Keith Packard's work on turning GNU/Linux into the highest performance platform for next-gen gaming in particular is both awesome, and must have cost Valve a small fortune, software engineers at his level don't come cheap.

I suppose the answer to your problem is that Valve doesn't do anything for Windows right now, because why would they? If it would take 5 years for them to recoup an investment in a Windows game, and it won't be possible to use Steam on the majority of Windows machines after the Windows 7 End of Life in about 2 years, why would they put a bunch of time and effort into Windows development?
That's probably why Artifact is basically a mobile game. Windows is winding down, PC gaming on Linux hasn't spun up as fast as they wanted it to. So card games that can go to mobile make the most sense for making money.

People were claiming that valve was working on multiple games, but isn't it like "our whole company is divided between very small teams who do their own little thing and then we refuse their ideas every single time"? Isn't that why Marc Ladilaw left?

>and then we refuse their ideas every single time"
wrong

microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-10-s

This is no fever dream of Gaben's anymore. 10 S is real, and being positioned as an upgrade from/replacement for Home.

Rather than shying away from new anti-competitive behavior Microsoft is pushing forward full bore because now that can argue that the most popular competing platforms, iOS and Android are similarly locked down and that this is necessary for security reasons.

10 S won't even let you use Chrome, or switch to Google as the default search engine.

Well I suppose so, I was just looking for some clarification on what actually goes on behind closed doors, apart from creating hats 24/7

>and being positioned as an upgrade from/replacement for Home.
No, it's not.

Itt, shitposting that is actually true.

I know where you're going with that. Nowhere in that page does it say its only for netbooks, or only for schools and hospitals. Its not positioned in some ways to anti-sell it.
Rather they're clearly making a strong marketing push for it for all users who aren't professionals.

This "Microsoft could never do that" mentality has already been proven wrong by the existence of 10 S. They're clearly pushing in a direction that should make everyone into PC gaming extremely uncomfortable, and the only real question now is why are so few people doing anything about it.

Don't think that government regulators will save you. Much like Intel a decade ago, or Microsoft themselves two decades ago, Microsoft today will gladly commit to a clearly anti-competitive course and take a few billion dollar slap on the wrist if it means they capture the market for another decade or two.

they made Steam
the rest is history

Really, the kind of hit the jackpot doing it when they did. They don't have any real competition and they can just roll in the money without having to do all that much work themselves anymore.

You forgot the part where several of the founding employees left the company because they wanted to make games and realized Valve became a dead-end for their careers.

More like several of the founding employees were multi-millionaires in their 50s and wanted to retire.

Battered housewife mentality is blaming yourself while still supporting them, not acknowledging why they do the fucked up things they do

They went from a game development company to a service provider company that occasionally makes games.

They also sound like they do a shitload of R&D in the hope they'll be at the forefront when the next paradigm shift comes (like VR). Also, remember Steamboxes? Yeah, the less said about those the better.

Steam Machines problem is that the demographic that wanted that sort of system, is also the demographic that builds their own systems and since SteamOS is Free and available for anyone to install on any system there was nothing stopping people from doing exactly that.

SteamOS and the Steam Machine project will make a lot more sense once cheap single board PCs become more of a thing. With the work Valve has done on it recently they've positioned it to be like RetroPi or Lakka for PC gaming once Windows is EOL.

What did Valve mean by this?

>Modern Rockstar and ubisoft
>Good

You can't improve on perfection.

Hit a goldmine.

>LOL RACE RACE RACE XD

Steam happened, the hero lived long enough to become the villain.

Valve doesn't come up with their own games. They wait for someone else to come up with something, then they go hire them and make their game for them. No one's come up with anything, so they stopped making games. They're also not going to make a sequel unless they have something interesting to sell with it, some new technology or gimmick.

this
it is unequivocally literally fact at this point that race has nothing to do with iq

hats

Valve only cares about 'cool shit' in tech and not about games themselves.
If you watch interviews with people like Gabe about Half Life 1, it's like they just made a game because that was the cool new thing at the time.

Now they have unlimited cash and can dick around with shit like VR

whose mans is this?

[citation needed]