Seriously, what the fuck happened with this company making games? Steam yada yada Gaben is rich, sure...

Seriously, what the fuck happened with this company making games? Steam yada yada Gaben is rich, sure, but you can't toss out a fucking source game once in a while?

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if you were donald trump and you were making 7 quadrillion billion dollars a year would you still go down to the grocery store every day of the week to work a 9 to 5 job? theres your answer

Alyx?

Terrible internal company culture.

What happens is that the employees get together, work on a project, disagree on direction, get into fights and end up splitting apart to spin up new projects instead of finishing and shipping the old project, and since they have cash coming in from Steam, there's no real incentive to get the people to make compromises with each other to figure out how to get over disagreements and finish the project like you would see in a company that HAS to ship in order to get cash.

Artifact and Underlords happened because they were straight up clones of already existing projects, so small teams could just ship them for the sake of shipping them without getting into internal disagreement fights.

this, the "do your own thing" meme is the most inefficient and actually costs more than ever

It's pretty simple, Gabe decided to make Valve a loosely structured system where anyone could do almost anything they wanted. Definitely has advantages if you can afford all the wasted effort, as evidenced by their long list of cancelled projects. Alyx was the first major game project that didn't fall apart in years, and now it looks like more employees are finally choosing to work together and get shit done as a result.

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It's coming out next year.

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they literally released a source game this year, wtf do you want

Not the best person to make an example of mate
I appreciate Alyx, but 10 hours of, let's be real, unreplayable gameplay after a decade+ doesn't get my dick hard

>but you can't toss out a fucking source game once in a while?
Developers usually only make games to make ends meet. Valve and post-Houser Rockstar Games are good examples of this.

>Alyx
>Game
it was a gloried tech simulator.

so, just like every other half-life game then?

>could've had L4D3 and HL3 by now if they weren't fucking retards with their engines

At least they gave Garry access to source 2 so we might get gmod 2 sooner than expected

You gotta factor in the amount of custom campaigns that've been (and are are going to) be made user

The fact that I can't play that shit without a VR headset annoys the crap out of me. But oh well my fault for being a poor fag lol.
Their last real game came out in Dota 2, which was in 2013.
>>VNN
>>mfw

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>Both dota and CSGO already use source 2.
>Those fuckwits still hold the damn SDK away from public.

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Really? If so, I am looking forward to Gmod 2. Gmod 1 is cancer at this point and time and I refuse to play it, too many fucking pointless server mods.

they just made a game

they started hiring seattle and california cucks and the company just AFKd from there, the usual story. lazy complacent faggots. epic games deserves to beat them.

>Their last real game came out in Dota 2, which was in 2013.

Technically game was done in 2011 for international and late 2012 it went public.

they'll probably get around to it next year or so when this bullshit is over. If not, then we riot.

Valve like all other companies found out that íf you want to make money you should pander the Chinese.

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Burgers don't like dota that much. Its always been a Euro/Russian and chink game.

Valve honestly got lucky as shit. They had little innovation in their early years (besides the hl engine ofc). Bought out counter-strike. Ballooned with Steam because that's all there was. Gabe is a talentless hack and he's probably banging trannies and/or teens in taiwan as we speak

It's funny how their most popular games are not even their own. counter strike was made by someone else and Dota is not even their original game.

There was a whole thread about it a few days ago. Garry received 2 terabytes of SDK related to source 2.

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They made Alyx, I'd assume they're working on something larger for VR next.

That's all Valve ever made, dude. Valve as a game developer was always horribly mediocre.

HL1 was a fun game that didn't put tech before gameplay.

The Half-Life 2 Episodes also but gameplay before tech.

The issue with Half-Life 2 proper that Half-Life and the Half-Life 2 Episodes didn't have was that they were developing major features with the underlying engine parallel with the game itself, so you'd get big tech demo features that the game designers hadn't figured out how to make fun yet.

Lol what the fuck is a tech simulator? Are you just mashing meme phrases together?

>unreplayable gameplay
it's as replayable as hl1 and 2.

When the focus and design of the game is showing off your cool tech you developed instead of making it with gameplay in focus.