Will most likely tied to additional SteamOS news and Steam Machines.
No one should expect any game announcements at GDC.
I just want the controller, but even that seems to have developed its way into something unremarkable.
[QUOTE=Antimuffin;46876780]Will most likely tied to additional SteamOS news and Steam Machines.
No one should expect any game announcements at GDC.[/QUOTE]
Might be source 2 related.
How about Valve run their Steam Support services so I can get a password change sent to my account?
[QUOTE=plokoon9619;46877485]How about Valve run their Steam Support services so I can get a password change sent to my account?[/QUOTE]
I wish Steam Support was half as good as Origin's support.
The one flaw of Valve/steam, very poor customer service. Slow service and wait times.
I guess that "flat structure" doesn't do well for customer service.
[QUOTE=>VLN<;46877510]The one flaw of Valve/steam, very poor customer service. Slow service and wait times.
I guess that "flat structure" doesn't do well for customer service.[/QUOTE]
The problem with Steam Support is that it's managed by about 5 people.
Valve simply need to get a lot more people working on support and it'll be better.
I heard rumors that Steam Machines & co would be ready for some sort of public release (more public beta? Finalization even?). During their initial Steam Universe announcement they talked about other AAA devs also pitching in to increase the Linux game library, so I'd assume such an announcement would go hand-in-hand with third party game announcements.
Maybe even something first-party in Source 2? There's been some screenshots of L4D2 map updates floating around and mysterious L4D3 folders and I'd say out of their franchises it's one that's more likely to get a sequel.
Going by their Dota2 blog posts that hint at Source 2 it also seems like it won't be ready for public showcase until after the New Bloom event (started end of January last year), but will be ready before Summer. So March (GDC) seems like a decent bet.
[QUOTE=Memobot;46876855]I just want the controller, but even that seems to have developed its way into something unremarkable.[/QUOTE]
Well, not much reason to make it different if "different" turned out to be "worse" during playtesting. I don't think they desperately wanted to create something new and different, they just thought they needed something substantially and so they started an experiment - whether that experiment's conclusion would be the need of a radically new controler or just some tweaks to the existing standard or maybe even no need to create a new controller at all.
[QUOTE=>VLN<;46877510]The one flaw of Valve/steam, very poor customer service. Slow service and wait times.
I guess that "flat structure" doesn't do well for customer service.[/QUOTE]
Well I wouldn't call it the [U]one[/U] flaw, tbh. There are probably a few others, like how it lets everything get on without any proper QA, and I know that technically that's meant to be the duty of the dolks making the game, but they let a lot of tosh onto the store to the point where they had to bring in the Curator system to help make shit less confusing.
Personally, I'd be in favour of them opening up a QA "subsidiary" branch with folks being paid to do QA for games posted to the store, sending back bug reports before they can release the game so that releases come out cleaner. Hell, they could make the service affordable for devs, or even bundle it into the distribution deal, so as to incentivise developers to have the QA subsidiary lighten their QA load for them and ensure a cleaner launch for the consumer.
Probably something new for steambox/controller as mentioned.
[QUOTE=Antimuffin;46876780]Will most likely tied to additional SteamOS news and Steam Machines.
No one should expect any game announcements at GDC.[/QUOTE]
i thought they dropped support/development of steamOS?
[QUOTE=Coffee;46877521]The problem with Steam Support is that it's managed by about 5 people.
Valve simply need to get a lot more people working on support and it'll be better.[/QUOTE]
valve as a company is way too small for all the shit they have to manage
[QUOTE=Dermock;46878288]i thought they dropped support/development of steamOS?[/QUOTE]
It's still ongoing, just not as fast as it was when it was announced. Some of the major players have left (or got fired) since.
[QUOTE=No_0ne;46878315]valve as a company is way too small for all the shit they have to manage[/QUOTE]
Valve is a lot bigger now. They have the resources to expand as well
[QUOTE=No_0ne;46878315]valve as a company is way too small for all the shit they have to manage[/QUOTE]
They can probably afford a massive boost to their support team, and at the same time also improve their servers.
Also they should probably redo the Steam client and remove a lot of the bloat.
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[QUOTE=redBadger;46878437]Valve is a lot bigger now. They have the resources to expand as well[/QUOTE]
It's like 300 people or so.
They can easily double that and still be extremely fine.
[QUOTE=redBadger;46878437]Valve is a lot bigger now. They have the resources to expand as well[/QUOTE]
They should, but for whatever reason they don't because they don't want to lose their ability to have that flat office structure they love so much.
I don't mean for that to sound as mocking as it does.
[QUOTE=No_0ne;46878315]valve as a company is way too small for all the shit they have to manage[/QUOTE]
They have the resources to be 10 times as big yet for some reason they refuse to hire more people to fix even the simplest things.
[QUOTE=YWNJack;46877501]I wish Steam Support was half as good as Origin's support.[/QUOTE]
It's all a question of luck, never had any trouble with Steam support and the same could be said for Origin support save that one time where I had to talk to 10 different Indian guys and still didn't get to solve my problem.
[QUOTE=TheRealRudy;46878630]Later that day, the whole showfloor room goes black...
"Time, Doctor Freeman?"
[sp]i want to believe[/sp][/QUOTE]
I love to fantasize about how they would finally announce it. It's fun.
[QUOTE=TheRealRudy;46878630]Later that day, the whole showfloor room goes black...
"Time, Doctor Freeman?"[/QUOTE]
"Time to [sp]upgrade to a BETTER OS[/sp]"
[QUOTE=Untouch;46877471]Might be source 2 related.[/QUOTE]
Announce Source 2 formally and show it off while releasing Steam Machines and that gaff is most likely.
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