>Half-Life 2's remaster, HL2 Intercontinental Edition, will release alongside global Steam client
>In a move likely to help call attention to its other initiatives, Valve has two major events to unveil alongside Steam. The developer will release a Half-Life 2 remaster, dubbed the Intercontinental Edition, to select regions for free.
>With modders porting VR support to HL2 in the past days, there's an extremely high likelihood the Intercontinental Editon fully supports the developer's Valve's VR push out of the box.
Steam is done for. What the fuck are they thinking?
Robert Roberts
1st of April?
Liam Kelly
>After the critical success of Half-Life: Alyx, releasing a less graphically taxing version of Half-Life would be a great idea. The release should coincide with the Steam client's release while Valve and Nvidia join forces in a global community event. Users will be able to choose a charity to represent in the normal complete with prizes to win and teams that fans can join and compete for.
what the fuck does this even mean?
John Rogers
You all should've known Valve would fall for the subscription meme eventually. I guarantee like a year from now sales are going to be even worse and more sparse than they've been in recent years because they want to push people onto services like this rather than having them buy games outright.
William White
>win.gg That aside, subscription based Steam option would make sense.
This is just going to be a glorified mod selection / upload interface for VR.
Connor Diaz
>Updates deployed to Dota 2 confirm that the Steam Client is coming to MacOSX, Linux, and Windows XP with native support. >windows xp
can't wait to dab on favela monkeys playing at 5 fps
Jeremiah Diaz
>the Steam Client is coming to MacOSX, Linux, and Windows XP with native support. That's...... always been the case though
Cooper Long
Reminder that Saber Interactive wanted to remaster Half-Life 2 back in the day, but Valve turned them down. (Then approved Hunt Down the Freeman.) And before some wanker knocks Saber, they're flavour of the month now because their Witcher 3 port for Switch is absolutely kino and also WWZ is good.
Hudson Collins
gaben’s gone full fucking kike again
Jayden Adams
>subscription service
Haha no
Surely this shit is gonna go down as well as paid mods
Jacob Phillips
>will release alongside global Steam client I hope they just mean the non-China version as opposed to re-uniting both clients together under censorship
NO I AM NOT GOING TO CALM DOWN THESE FUCKING FAGGOTS SITTING ON THEIR DAMN ASSES WORKING ON FUCKING CARD GAMES AND SHITTY SUBSCRIPTIONS I HAD ENOUGH OF THEIR BULLSHIT I CANT SEE WHY ANYONE WOULD CONTINUE TO KEEP THEIR FUCKING DICKS! AHHHHHJHHHHHHHHHHHH AND NO DAMN FANGAME IS GOIBG TO SATISFY ME BE RIGHT BACK!
knowing valve, they would do something like this. They're so detatched from the real world. Remember when they announced that card game and they were confused on why people didnt like it? Yeah valve is just fucked.
Liam Harris
>The release should coincide with the Steam client's release while Valve and Nvidia join forces in a global community event. Users will be able to choose a charity to represent in the normal complete It’s just random ESL garble
Matthew Murphy
>fell for the vr meme >valve getting over confident.
>Their inclusion comes with something gamers have never ever before, especially from Valve: a brand new Steam subscription service that offers players access to Valve's entire game catalog. It's not just Valve, either. Noth Ubisoft and EA have their own subscription packages that users can pay for.
Netflix for gaming has arrived
Noah Watson
>the amount of retards and steam forum trannies defending valve for almost anything they do >they do it because is innovative and because is good and evolution for gaming. Have you ever gotten an urge to choke these type of people anons?
Nathaniel Bailey
>no sources on any of this shit
Zachary Garcia
This is the source.
Landon Myers
This. Honestly, Valve doesn't have a big enough cataloge to justify a subscription service, though I can see them offering their old games for free. They likely would need to remaster or at least ADJUST HL2 to release in China. EA and Ubisoft have their own markets where they could offer their own damn subscription servives.
What might be happening is this is a china only thing, because it's hard as fuck to get into China, and the game culture is just different - nobody is dropping 60 bucks for a title. So these companies might be going in with Valve for a crack at the chinese market.
Mind you i'm sure if it's successful they'll try to bring it over here eventually. But for now I suspect this "subscription service" is a china only thing if it exists at all
David Perry
watch the latest gabe interview, he acknowledges the failures of artifact and the steam machines.
this is a braindead argument, you're literally saying that because you feel like it should be true, it is even though the only info on it is some article made by a 3rd grader ESL.
I'll wait for an official update by Valve themselves, thank you.
Thomas Watson
>inb4 it's okay when Valve does it
Robert Hughes
>frog poster Opinion discarded.
Nolan Roberts
>half life >graphically taxing ???
Jack Ortiz
Epic just keeps winning.
FUCK VALVLE AND FUCK GABE
Chase Jones
user april 1st is tomorrow...
Andrew Davis
Sounds like a load of bullshit. Fuck off.
Jason Howard
are the niggers in this thread just baiting by acting like they believe this ESL site?
James Jenkins
Which one of you fucking faggots used a monkey's paw
Evan Mitchell
Okay Yas Forums.
Steam now has a monthly subscription fee.
BUT.
The orange box 3 comes out. every single valve game 3 comes out on source 2. it's glorious, the games are constantly updated, run on vulkan and look and play gorgeously. that includes but isn't limited to > Team fortress 3 > Half Life 3 which isn't the golden god it's hyped to be though > Left 4 dead 3 > portal 3 the monthly fee is 10$ USD and steam now loads a lot smoother and sales are slightly better like they once were, commissioned by steam. do you accept this fate?
didn't they give HL2 it an engine overhaul in an update? that's technically a remaster
Logan Kelly
sorry it was me, really dropped the ball on that one. Don't worry though I used my last wish to remove China as a competitor in the manufacturing industry
Aaron Gonzalez
No I do not. Microsoft and Sony have a subscription and their servers run like dogshit. Also Steam make fucktons of money enough to fund servers for a 100 years.
Carter Perez
>blast through the entire orange box in under a month >cancel subscription
How is it a problem? Don't use it, problem solved.
Mason Thomas
No, I grew out of valve games
Jayden Torres
The word "remaster" has lost all meaning, it can pretty much be used in any context now
Dominic Stewart
> blast through TF3 and left 4 dead 3 in a month bruh?
Wyatt Wood
Assuming Valve becomes devs again and the sales return to their former glory I think I'd eat this dick
I wouldn't do it for any other video game 'service' though
Sebastian Watson
Remember that time Gabe Newell got downvoted as fuck on reddit because he was defending paid mods or someshit. Even reddit dont want to put up with Jew shit.
Other publishers have had optional subscription services for years, why is it suddenly a problem when Valve does it?
John Smith
>selling your soul bruh
Nathan Gutierrez
I don't give a crap about valve games. As long as they can make jap games come out faster on steam, I don't give a damn even if it means they scamming out of their own fanbase.
Christopher Myers
tyler would have said something about this
Blake Brooks
>Steam now has a monthly subscription fee. No it does not. Why are you talking out of your ass? Read the fucking article, retard.
Samuel Wright
Wait what would the subscription offer that isn't already there?
Dominic Ward
Because Valve is suppose to be exceptional. People get angry when they chase the new trend like they've been doing for years now. Paid mods, lootboxes, E-Sports and paid subscriptions.
Nah, subscription for entertainment is cancer aids.
Hudson Watson
>gone Always was.
Brody Long
it'll only go down like paid mods if they remove features
Landon Peterson
I do not make purchases from companies that do not act in my favor. And subscriptions are not in my favor, so I will make purchases from companies that do instead.
Charles Reed
not always, you can tell he doesnt have his heart in it anymore. I mean why should he even give a fuck at this point, he can do whatever he likes he has enough money that he never has to work again.
David Smith
Welp guess iam an epic games drone now Where can i sell my steam acc?
Benjamin Baker
What I don't get is that people think this is something new. GabeN was open about his desire for something like paid mods years before it was a thing, and about exploring new sources of revenue. Dude's an ultra libertarian. Plebs didn't know this and suddenly acted like Valve were changing when in reality they were just realizing those decade-long ambitions.
Aiden Foster
Can I still buy the games?
Julian Lopez
Why would I subscribe to things I don't care for?
Aiden Scott
Cunt's former Microsoft that really showed his true colours in '04 - the rest of it has just been underlining it.
Lincoln Foster
Remember Gabe Newell was praised for being a nice guys out for consumers? Yikes how that hasn't aged well.
Grayson Garcia
Support for XP and Vista was dropped in 2018.
Landon Diaz
they literally just gave you a new half life game
Austin Ortiz
looks like free games raping valvo santo, tick tock give it 2 years and steam is dead
What does a subscription get you? Any game in the steam library?
Jeremiah Gutierrez
Hey, this is Gabe Newell. NOW LISTEN HERE YOU LITTLE FUCKS! I own all of you, you are all mine. I can do what ever I fucking like. I want all of the money, not lots of it, I want all of the money in the world!!!! How else can I afford my private jet luxurious life style? I need to find new revenues, I need to find more ways to milk cash out of mindless Valve drones. I hated it, I hated every fucking second of making video games and pretending I like them. But look to where it has led me! Exactly when I planned. Now I can do what ever I like, I could ruin the industry if I wanted to. Fuck you all give me money!
