Valve is Moving Again in May 2017, "almost double its workspace"
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[quote]Its new crib will consist of nine floors of the new Lincoln Square tower, bumping its available area to approximately 225,000 square feet – roughly a third of the tower’s 710,000 square feet of space.[/quote]
[quote]Valve will make the move in May 2017.[/quote]
[url]http://www.develop-online.net/news/valve-to-double-office-space-in-upcoming-studio-move/0222824[/url]
That's a pretty big slice of the tower, hopefully space that'll come in handy for them bringing in new blood, maybe even making something new.
But this is Valve we're talking about, so it'll probably just be a lot more room for servers, old and new. Which is still good, since with how Steam's grown, it needs a lot of servers.
Though maybe some of that extra room will come in handy for their VR development?
Finally they will have space to use the Vive
[QUOTE=ironman17;50849157]That's a pretty big slice of the tower, hopefully space that'll come in handy for them making something new.
But this is Valve we're talking about, so it'll probably just be a lot more room for servers, old and new. Which is still good, since with how Steam's grown, it needs a lot of servers.[/QUOTE]
Steam servers are hosted across the world though, I think Valve doesn't need entire rooms full of racks upon racks of servers.
Maybe then they'll have room to hire a support team :smug:
[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;50849165]Maybe then they'll have room to hire a support team :smug:[/QUOTE]
Yeah, now they can have 2 support guys that do nothing.
[QUOTE=Intoxicated Spy;50849175]Yeah, now they can have 2 support guys that do nothing.[/QUOTE]
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Now they'll have twice as much space to not make HL3 in.
Why the fuck does Steve balmer rent the top floor of the tower?
[QUOTE=Intoxicated Spy;50849158]Finally they will have space to use the Vive to create hats and decrease ammo reserves further[/QUOTE]
ftfy
The building has a halo in google street view
[url]https://www.google.com.ua/maps/@47.6173812,-122.2017036,3a,75y,137.17h,141.15t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sL9jYpHkuI8dzPkrItyZx3g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656[/url]
[t]http://thestudentreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Gabe-Newell-700x968.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE=Thomo_UK;50849161]Steam servers are hosted across the world though, I think Valve doesn't need entire rooms full of racks upon racks of servers.[/QUOTE]
Right, everything external and customer facing is hosted on a variety of cloud and distributed platforms, [I]because anything else is retarded today[/I]. Having your own servers in your offices would be used for secure stuff like internal documentation, finances and possibly code version control. But even that can be on external servers if needed. Just keep on the ball with security in that case, pls.
They almost certainly need room after room to store the archives of complaints about the Steam client though, I'm sure of it.
[QUOTE=Lolkork;50849272]they store those in the incinerator[/QUOTE]
I didn't realise they made incinerators with that high a capacity.
Valve truly are innovating in ways we can't comprehend...
[QUOTE=Lolkork;50849272]they store those in the incinerator[/QUOTE]
portal 2's incinerator must have been a clone of theirs then
[video=youtube;10E_0HTMCaM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10E_0HTMCaM[/video]
needed to store an extra peyote to work on the next tf2 crash
[QUOTE=sarge997;50849211]Now they'll have twice as much space to not make single player games in.[/QUOTE]
fixed that for you
Not a whole building dedicated to them? I guess nine floors isn't bad but
[quote]The Dota 2, Team Fortress 2 and Counter-Strike developer (it also created a long-forgotten PC game, Half... something?)[/quote]
Good one Jarvis.
[QUOTE=Fort83;50849284]Gabe ran out of room for his knives did he?[/QUOTE]
He needs space to store his Bleach swords.
[editline]8th August 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=BANNED USER;50849462]Good one Jarvis.[/QUOTE]
Y'know, even though we give them a lot of shit about it, and get repetitive about it with the whole HL3 asking thing and making jokes and whatnot, I don't think we should ever stop doing those jokes.
It sucks that they went after cash and stopped giving a shit about their prized jewel.
Wonder how they will utilize the extra workspace?
[QUOTE=iThinkN7;50849670]Wonder how they will utilize the extra workspace?[/QUOTE]
At least one floor dedicated to free snacks.
plenty of more room for all of that snowdog testing
Double the work space, half the productivity?
I hope Half-Life fans won't do something ridiculous like hijacking the van that transports anything HL3 related stuff to their new offices...
:shh:
[QUOTE=Slender|Man|;50849951]I hope Half-Life fans won't do something ridiculous like hijacking the van that transports anything HL3 related stuff to their new offices...
:shh:[/QUOTE]
Wouldn't be too far off if there was a massively rich half-life fan in some saudi arabian city, that decided to hire mercenaries to hijack whatever transport vehicle they're using to transport whatever inhouse servers they've got.
Why do they need all that space when they don't develop games anymore?
[QUOTE=coldroll5;50850105]Why do they need all that space when they don't develop games anymore?[/QUOTE]
VR stuff.
[QUOTE=coldroll5;50850105]Why do they need all that space when they don't develop games anymore?[/QUOTE]
Please dont start.
[QUOTE=coldroll5;50850105]Why do they need all that space when they don't develop games anymore?[/QUOTE]
Gabe has been.......expanding
[QUOTE=Sumap;50849693]At least one floor dedicated to free snacks.[/QUOTE]
an entire room dedicated to big pink cookies
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