What's Yas Forums's honest opinion on Valve?

>also, VR is fucking able-ist
Really? It costing one fucking thousand bucks isn't the first problem that comes to mind?

That's literally the campo santo niggers. Not saying you are wrong.
I still don't know why they hired them unless someone already working there got memed into "this is what you need in current year"

hiring campo santo fags was a big mistake for valve imo

Why didn't they just make half life 3? Like what the fuck happened? I'm not even that much of a fanboy but that has to be one of the worst handled things in the history if the industry.
Not that they care because they were busy monopolizing PC gaming

They didn't even make episode 3.

Was probably one of the best devs out there between 1998-2011

Fuck them.

This and the new layout for the friends list on Steam put me off, I don't trust them to do anything good with the Alyx game

valve is a bad company led by a bad man. gabe newell is a dog faced rectum licker. dont trust anything valve says or does, they work for the CIA

1k $ is not a problem if the games can justify it (they can't yet)

I still remember my HL2 headaches and nausea, I had to be hospitalized for 3 weeks

>NOOOOOO, THIS BILLION DOLLAR CORPORATION WAS SUPPOSED TO BE MY FRIEND WHO SHARES MY OPINIONS FUCK

So then any videogame is ableist?

Used to be a good video game company.

Same as every other 90s Dev these days: They used to be good, built up an empire, then did fuck-all with it and are currently running themselves into the ground by making stupid and/or woke decisions.

Valve could return to glory with a few simple things:
1st and foremost: Release a goddamn game that people WANT. HL3, HL2 Ep3, Portal 3, L4D3. Not shit like Artifact, HL:Alyx VR gimmick shit, and not whatever other shit they're trying to plan.
2nd: Drop their cut on sales through the store to compete with Epic. Not remove, just drop.
3rd: Bring back Flash Sales with higher discounts. Sales have been shit for awhile now and it's the same Discounts every time lately.

That's really all it takes.

Corporations have people at the head, and those people (like all humans) can either be decisive or spineless.

sucks you cant be hospitalized and cured for your ugly as fuck personality

Campo Santo's influence is overstated, and the members will probably end up being purged relatively quickly.

See for example what happened to the acquisition-hires of Nuclear Monkey (Portal) and Turtle Rock (L4D). In both cases, the teams ended up being split up, the key talent being kept and the rest being purged and fired.

Basically in 2011 Microsoft had a closed door meeting with Valve about their plan for the future of Windows. We don't know exactly what happened at that meeting beyond Microsoft apparently trying to buy Valve for an insultingly low amount, but afterwards Gaben put Valve as a company to work on preserving the PC gaming library, with one negative outcome of that being an even slower pace of developing new games.

If you look at everything Valve has done since then in light of that it makes perfect sense, and Microsoft's actions over the last few years have certainly borne Gaben's concerns out even if Microsoft seem to have slowed the schedule of their agenda slightly. While that's been bad in that the majority of people haven't seen the clear need for what Valve have been up to, it has given them more time to push forward the Vulkan standard and the integration of legacy compatibility layers into Valve's ecosystem.
They're clearly more comfortable now with where Steam is with roughly 70% of the library at Gold status or above with Proton that they're moving forward with games again though still playing the long game counting on Alyx to be an evergreen title that will sell well for the next decade as VR hardware comes down in price.

I wish they'd do more in getting developers on board with white listing their legacy games and getting developers onto their modern game platform, and I really want a second-gen Steam Controller, but overall I can't complain too much.

They care about one thing: Profit. They do not give a shit about what you think. They'll kick you to the curb if it will net them 1% more profit

they dont need to do shit to compete with epic, to be honest
>sales have been shit recently
that's just you already owning all the games you're interested in

rest I agree with

What's that got to do with me calling them spineless?

>2nd: Drop their cut on sales through the store to compete with Epic. Not remove, just drop.
>3rd: Bring back Flash Sales with higher discounts. Sales have been shit for awhile now and it's the same Discounts every time lately.
These when combined with the ability for publishers to generate keys and sell them on their own don't add up to Valve surviving.

Epic's policies are unsustainable long term.

They backtracked on paid mods on Steam while the same thing keeps making Bethesda profits.

used to be gold, now niggers just sit and let steam money roll in.

Hope HL Alyx isnt shit.

You don't honestly think that they only started trying to make games 1 year ago when the Epic story came online, do you?

They've tried and failed to make games for years, and also, their dev money would be much better spent on making the million times more lucrative (and now threatened) platform, steam more competitive, rather than a game for fledgling hardware that few own.

>non-binary trans
>it isnt male/female and is transitioning into something else that also isnt male/female

It’s too late for HL3 at this point. The only people that give a fraction of a shit anymore are zoomers whose first HL experience was reading a Gabe at E3 greentext

No people memw about the cost but they are a lot of problems when it comes to vr and also simply aren't for some people.
At the very least these fat fucks could do was finishing the half life games before going into vr

>2nd: Drop their cut on sales through the store to compete with Epic. Not remove, just drop.
Bad idea. Once you lower your cut it becomes very hard to bring it back up if you become cash strapped. Plus it can potentially kick off a price war if your competition just lowers their price even more in response.

Valve's strategy is actually the smart one: keep the cut high but differentiate from the cheaper competition. You make the pitch "yeah, we take 30% instead of 12%, but that 18% more you're paying is for all these cool features we have that you can't get from our 12% competitor!" It's business strategy 101.

Also hired a sheboon to voice alyx now.
Anyone that are not starting to see valve's fall from Grace a mile away are either retards or valve drones.

Not quite - I have a huge wishlist + a few followed games I don't want on my wishlist, but the discounts are never high enough to justify it. I could easily buy them full price, but meh.

They took the pc market, and could have steered it how they wanted and made whatever they felt like. Their games aren't good now, and it all started with hats.

Valve is undoubtedly the most cancerous video game company of all time.

flash sales aren't coming back because
a) literally nobody bought games until encore day
b) with refunds people will just return games and rebuy them on encore day anyways
c) too many people whinged about it being "unfair" despite the fact you can use alerts to notify you of flashes even if you're at work
c) devs set prices and with the meme of steam sales they will never go back to 75+ percent off
>muh 30%
im curious as to why you and everyone else draw the line at valve despite being it being an industry wide standard. why do you not shout and clamor at apple, google, physical stores, xblive, psn, nintendo, etc. etc.

They're a joke now days and shouldn't be taken seriously

>Half-Life
Corpse propped up on strings to shill bad hardware
>Team Fortress
Dead
>Dota
Literally a clone of League of Legends with little to differentiate it, hence the slow bleedout
>Left 4 Dead
Dead
>Portal
Dead
>Counter-strike
Turned into a soulless gambling simulator for weedlords and the underage

Valves exists to strangle money out of indie devs, not develop games, and it shows. They're better off anyway because the "talent" at the current company isn't even half as good as those who made the company.

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>works for the cia
Take your Yas Forums conspiracies there.

Let me get this right? Valve are slipping because they have hired a person based on performance criteria and not on skin colour?

Your brain is liquid, faggot.

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Steam, like most software developed in the west, tracks you and has federal backdoors built in.

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Indifferent. Made a few good games but that doesn't justify being complacent and lazy cunts.

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80% of the hate online has been artificially manufactured by Nathan Grayson's clique of cucknalists.
If you hate Valve you're LITERALLY agreeing with Nathan fucking Grayson

>hires a worse voice actress because diversity

You sure showed me dude

Valve is a shitty, awful and greedy company that deserves to die. Good thing Epic is coming to destroy Valve once and for all.

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That's true, but I would've suggested going down just a little to 15-20% at worst. 30% is kinda high in general. Even 25% would be better.
But that's also talking about the cut in a vacuum - remember that Valve has the whole Lootbox/Hat/Skin scheme going on giving them free money. Then they get a cut of every Marketplace transaction for Cards and shit, too. A little hit on Sale %s wouldn't affect their bigger sources of income like those.

>Literally a clone of League of Legends
I sincerely hope you are trolling.

VR games are more able-ist than pancake games

>Now that they are facing more serious competition with Epic, they are finally making games again.
Imagine being this retarded

just a drm store now, better than others except gog

Compare 2013 Dota to today, it's amazing how far the game fell to try and steal the LoL market.

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Sure thing Yas Forumstard.
Give me proof.

I don't get it.
The art was cute who cares if the artist was a tranny?

The voice sounds perfectly fucking fine and you know it

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Isn't alyx literally like half black?

It literally is since Valve made it in response to League.

>im ok with the political propaganda so it should stay
room temperature IQ

You are aware that Dota 2 is basically a remake of the original DotA mod for Warcraft III which came many years before LoL?

UPDATE TF2 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Based

Are you kidding?

forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2020/02/12/cia-secretly-bought-global-encryption-provider-built-backdoors-spied-on-100-foreign-governments/#823f914580ab

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Are you literally brain damaged?

it drops to 25% after 10m earned and 20% after 50m. obviously nobody but aaa games will ever see this discount, but there you have it. and keep in mind epic doesn't have thousands and thousands games to store and distribute in perpetuity. if epic gets more and more games to store in perpetuity you can can bet their cut will slowly rise over time.

You are aware that you're a fucking retard and you should off yourself to spare the gene pool from your retardation, right?