The Valve and Steam Platform Discussion Thread

Yeah, that sounds awfully speculative as well as friendly to NeoGAF board culture (#6 quoted above).

 

Because we all know Half Life's main point of attraction is the branching storyline

 

Follow up:
http://www.tweaktown.com/news/46624/valve-talks-half-life-3-exist-outside-game/index.html



Again, take everything with a pinch of sodium chloride.

 

As long as Gaben's fat, Half-Life never coming out.

 

The faggines is through the roof with all this HL3 shit.The significance of HL is the mods it spawned not the core games.No one serious care about corridor shooter #500000 Gaben confirmed for maser race once again ditching this PoS and focusing on competitive games.

 

The more successful a publisher/developer is the more creatively bankrupt they become. Happened to EA. Happened to Blizzard. Happened to Valve. Happened to most every other AAA out there that spews out more iterative shit.

 

That's we are seeing yearly HL releases?

Their business is to take good ideas from modders with mass market appeal and turn them into polished F2P titles. That's their craft and they are quite good at it. And GabeN doesn't care about creative bankruptcy as long as it doesn't affect the bottom line, which it certainly doesn't at the moment.

 

Dota2 is iterative shit. So is CS: GO. That's what you're seeing. So is L4D3 when it comes out in a year or so. The rest of your post is a tautology that follows from what I wrote.

 

bullshit post that is wishy washy for the sake of pandering to gaf's typical agenda.
(Shitty ending of ME3 doesn't mean squat when it sold for a few mils)

 

http://www.pcgamesn.com/steam-exploit-costs-some-streamers-their-accounts



And today Steam Community pages are very laggy for whatever reason.

 

the more i work with valve and their users, i am starting to hate it more and more. I am talking from indie dev standpoint, their lack of moderation, their hipster homepage, the banning of mobile port tag and 30 fps tag, the payed mods fiasco, putting five years old games on new popular releases, their visibility conversion lower than porn hub, etc... Its all awesome!



hopefully my next game will be worthy for GOG and i wont have put up with this fucking google play steam store.

 

And i cant access my build depots in the last 2 hours, its awesome. Hopefully will be fixed until monday...

 

No one cares about your shitty phone games, Thane.

 

Well they have a curator for that now.

 

You can remove them, at least i can remove most of them, not sure about those that have a very high follower count.

 

The Steam Store and the Steam Community stuff are failing to load for me. Gabe is probably uploading the Half Life 3 shareware

¯\(°_o)/¯

 

I was not sure where to post this, and I did not want to create a new thread, but the guy calls himself Steam Spy, so...

An interesting article about 'target audience' and PC gamers' types and their habits.

Catchy clickbait title included.

EDIT: it discusses why terms like 'core gamer' are misused, as well as estimates how many actual 'typical gamers' exist on Steam (not that many, which explains why big publishers treat PC as a secondary market).

https://medium.com/steam-spy/your-target-audience-doesn-t-exist-999b78aa77ae

 

Very questionable conclusions.You need to get in consideration that DOTA2 and CS:GO numbers are inflated by trade and a lot of accounts are created just for that.Also VAC bans in CS promote lone game accounts just for that.And ofc even the blind will tell you looking at the graph-bundles and sales.Torchlight 2 was in a lot of them.Also there is definitely MOBA or MMO market and big one too,people do seek replacement for LoL,WoW etc. Just look at the launch numbers for new MMOs(SWTOR,ESO,Wildstar)all around 2 milions are looking for new games in the genre.Same for dota-clones.The spy gay looks clueless to me even with all the data he has.

 

He's still technically right. 2 millions is not really that big of a number for considered high-budget wow killers, especially since that 2million audience is slightly different from the 10million+ audience of the popular shit. These 2 million people of players who want to try a new MMO and drop it pretty quickly, not going for the long haul like the wow addicts. Getting free-to-play in one year is certainly not a sign of success, not when WoW lasted for 10years plus and still has more subscribers than these games combined, didn't go fully f2p and the game has suffered all the shitty changes.

Or take the DC moba mentioned in the article, that one closed just a few weeks ago. For a game with such a giant pull and marketing advantage (play as DC superheroes!), that sucks really hard. If the sequel to the game who essentially made the moba genre what it is today or the blizzard version of the genre can't pass LoL, nothing else should possibly even try at this point.

 

That's because they are shit ,not that there is no MMO or MOBA market.

 

Just passing by to say that Lord Gaben is Our Lord and people who don't use Steam deserve to be slaughtered for offending Our Lord.

Thank you, have a good day.

 

And let me guess, you gotta kill the Origin jew and the Uplay muslim?