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When Gabe dies, how much do you want to bet valve is going to suddenly want to start working on half life 3? Only to produce a buggy shallow generic AAA title with micro transactions? I'm hoping I'm wrong, but I'm a little cynical about the whole gaming industry these days.
You are aware the Gabe was there when Hats and Karambits were added to TF2 and CS:GO?
Newell isn't some saint, he's running an obscenely profitable business. The games Valve are actually maintaining, CS2 and DOTA2, both have a lot of microtransactions. I really don't understand why you're making out that Valve would never add MTX until some evil corpo suit takes over after Gabe's death.
I'm not saying it's perfect. I'm saying it could get much much worse. That's all. Valve is a breath of fresh air in comparison to other corporations and publishers at the moment. Steam deck, valve index, the steam platform in general.
Steam is why they don't make games anymore.
They're retailers now.
I was okay with hats and cosmetics in TF2. Didn't play CS:GO, but I'd be okay with that as well. It's just cosmetics and you can unlock every single one of them through playing or crafting. It had zero effect on the game play. When different weapons were added I found them to be refreshing and a new lease on life for the old game. It's stupid and silly but it was fun.
CS:GO cosmetics appear to be obtained by gambling with real money.
I put a few thousand hours into Dota 2 and never spent any money on it, didn't feel much pressure or any desire to since idc about cosmetics. I think it's great though, if a game is free and other people who care about visual skins subsidize it for you.
It's still a private company, so if he has a worthy follower it's not going to happen. Let's just hope there is someone to start running valve like it's supposed to
Gabe’s choice of successor is arguably going to be one of the most important decisions in gaming, ever. Crazy to say, but finding someone who can maintain course and propel the medium without getting greedy is likely gonna be tough. Gabe always had vision, or at least hired people who did and listened to them. Hope he makes the right call.
You can't build an empire if you're, at the same time, cashing it out.
Not sure, whether this is possible in the US and how to correctly translate that...
A company in the area where I live had a founder, that feared, that his company might change to a new (more capitalistic/ "evil"/generic) corporate culture, when he would eventually step down and some other manager takes over. So, when he resigned, he transferred all his shares I to a trust? foundation? endowment? to make sure his vision and culture stays with the company as this legal entity enforces it.
Counter Strike?
They didn't create CS
Sure profit from the loot boxes
CS:GO, they did. As well as CS the game, but not the mod. Also people who made original CS are all employed by Valve, so they weren't just part of the company at the time.
Even CSGO was originally made by Hidden Path. CS2 and CS:S are the only ones fully made by Valve (+community maps/skins). Regardless the series itself was not made by Valve, they hired the original mod team after it was already a popular HL1 mod.
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