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I would love a Portal 3.
But Valve can’t count to 3
Portal 2.9
What about skipping 3 and making Portal π?
π is a lie…ahyjak
They’ll still be printing money.
CS2 and Alyx also happened, it’s a thing now.
CS2 is a half-assed sequel meant to be the bare minimum necessary to keep Valve’s cs money printer going.
Completely half-assed. They only:
- Moved the game to a new engine
- Rebuilt the codebase from scratch because the previous codebase was 100% spaghetti.
- Made sure the game feels as close to the CSGO experience as possible. The resident CS nerd Ropz said the movement is 1 to 1 with CSGO which is not a small feat.
- Rebuilt the server architecture for better online experience
- Changed how smokes work which has noticeably altered the meta
- Redoing all the maps
- Reworked the audio
- Made sure all the skins can be transferred over and look somewhat decent.
- Bunch of minor QoL things that they didn’t need to do but did anyway
Fucking lazy devs.
And they did it for free
what are you talking about CS makes them loads of money in micro transactions
They could’ve done nothing and CSGO still would’ve made them loads of money. They could’ve put a price tag on CS2 and ask extra money to transfer skins over. They could’ve easily monetized it but they didn’t.
Pretty sure at this point valve just does things for the love of the game. They don’t need VR or handhelds and they certainly don’t need their own games, but they do it anyway.
And I don’t say that just cause 30% profit off their store is enough; Apple and Google both do that on mobile and they still stick their grubby hands on everything (their stores are probably a fraction of their profit anyway).
Nah, it’s cause Valve doesn’t have shareholders and doesn’t seem interested in the myth of infinite growth. They just want to tinker; Portal was self reflecting parody, haha.
That’s what you get when the Company CEO is also the original (or at least one of) Founder
Every time the founder CEO steps down and is replaced (Unless the founder directly, hand picks their successor (and even then sometimes not)) the company goes to shit soon after
It happened with Google, it happened with Apple, it happened with Reddit (Little more complicated, but there were multiple founders, the one with the vision and the one with only money on the mind, you can guess which one is currently at the helm) and it’ll happen with Valve too
I doubt Gabe actually steers anything these days. Valve as a company might already be on autopilot. Their culture permeates through every employee who works there. I am not looking forward to the day Gabe dies but I don’t think vavle is gonna change much when he does. They are already winning without trying. And if they keep the company private they have no incentive to fuck it up.
If valve goes public that’s the day we panic.
I’m terrified when Gabe dies that my library of temporarily licensed software will be stripped away.
We really need to find a fountain of youth for Gabe like, yesterday. I genuinely dread his passing.
Him being 100+ pounds over weight isn’t helping this fear, either
He actually appears to have lost a lot of weight recently
Source from earlier this year https://starfishneuroscience.com/team
Yep, as soon as you’re beholden to shareholders, you’re forced to take the short term view on everything, at the expense of long term returns.
LINE MUST GO UP THIS QUARTER!
Shareholders ruin everything. That’s why I’m a Mutualist.
Since the games in the first image, Valve has released:
TF2
Left 4 Dead
Left 4 Dead 2
Alien Swarm
Portal 2
CS:GO
Dota 2
Artifact
Dota Underlords
Half-Life: Alyx
CS2
IceFrog is cooking.
