The Valve and Steam Platform Discussion Thread

See: TF2 hats

 

Not sure what you're trying to say. Valve made the first wave of hats and adds a few every once in a while but for at least a year or two now most of the cosmetic items in TF2 are user submissions with Valve getting a cut. Moreover, you also presuppose that the trivial amount of time they spend making cosmetic TF2 and Dota 2 items (again, a lot of Dota stuff is user submission) would otherwise be spent... doing what? Making art assets for what game? L4D3? HL3? Portal 3? Because of Steam Valve has ceased to be a developer and is more along the lines of a publisher/social media company. Their games come out at a snails pace because they have no need to sell them like a traditional developer. The delays have nothing to do with the lack of art assets.

 

Yeah, I know. That's what I said. I also said they make a lot of money doing very little work themselves, which is also what you said.

 

So apparently, there is a new ARG going on.

 

Valve and Gaben have basically won capitalism. In the digital economy it is not about controlling the means of production, but the means of sale.

 

What are the odds this Workshop submission gets approved?

 

I might have got cancer from this video,the retardness is too much.

 

Oh yeah, fuck programing, games are made of ART! Glorious filming is were the secret lies!

 

I thought they already announced they're working on both HL3 and Source 2. What concerns me is that Gabe said Valve was done making single player games. So they're gonna be some kind of multiplayer gimmick to it.

 

Programming not sexy enough brother. Amusingly enough, as a programmer, even if your dream of working in the games industry (being a programmer myself, I do wonder why anyone would willingly walk into that shitheap, but whatever) doesn't come true, you have some pretty good employment prospects elsewhere. Meanwhile, Arts graduates make angry threads in GD about how impossible it is for them to find a job. And this, I fear, will be the result of Valve Pipeline.

 

more likely

 

I don't think they've said that.

Look at DOTA2, clearly PC only

 

anyway in b4 more cartoon graphics in HL3 not to mention more childish story



Can you imagine being Valve CEO, having unlimited creative freedom and endless flow of cash, best programmers and artists and the best thing you can produce is retarded multiplayer hat wearing simulator with cartoon graphics and digital download store?

 

If that generates the endless flow of cash...

 

You won't see shit from Valve for a while until they got their Source 2 engine finished.

 

Source 2 = Source 1 with bigger textures and next gen consoles support.


I think they are walking a Duke Nukem Forever devs path. Looped to infinity: chasing rest of the world while trying to make something at least a little revolutionary and big.

In 2011 they were butthurt about Minecraft, today probably by DayZ.

 

Until he creates his own.

 

In 2011 they were prototyping Ice Gun and Flamethrower in source.

The last revolutionary thing in 3d is voronoi real time procedural shattering:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9Fo6wCuK80
That fits to ice gun.

Still to slow and problematic to use massively as a gameplay element in normal game.

I bet all their best brains are working on this now.

 

Btw. found this official response in regards to Steam Offline Mode: http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/864969953572102601/#c864969953730401285

And somewhat below:

 

I don't get that. If you have no CMs and PR people then... fucking hire some? Valve is rolling in cash.

 

Why? They have religious devotion without spending any money on them.