Doug Lombardi reveals Valve are 'talking about' organising a PC press conference at E3

[smurfy]

[url]http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/03/19/valve-on-bringing-the-pc-to-e3/[/url]

[quote=PC Gamer]E3 is still the biggest noisiest industry event of the gaming calendar. Before the show has even started the big console developers hold marathon press conferences for some vigorous tub-thumping about upcoming releases.

While a lot of the E3 showings are made up of loud noises, hot air and hype, it would be nice to have a way to celebrate PC gaming’s brightest and best on a big stage. With no single representative to put a show together, the PC loses out.

We discussed this exact topic with Valve’s Doug Lombardi recently, mulling over the idea of a more mellow event that could be shared between some of the world’s biggest PC developers.

[b]“If you saw Gabe’s DICE speech about three or four years ago, his keynote there? He basically gave an update on where we were and where we saw the PC going and what trends we thought were interesting and it was probably 35-40 minutes,” he said. “Something like that might be something that would be cool. I think that maybe having someone maybe like Blizzard there, maybe someone like Nexon there, could be an interesting thing.”

The event wouldn’t be a huge, celebrity laden gig. “You know, we’ve talked about that a bit and I think what that looks like, maybe, is us not doing the shock and awe thing at the Galen centre or whatever, vis-a-vie the console guys where you have three thousand people in there and we have to hire some star to make it interesting or we’re going to waste your time for two hours.”

“‘Waste’ is a little bit harsh, but anyway, we don’t want to burn your time for two hours.”

Nothing has been arranged yet. Valve are still putting together their E3 plans, but if any company was going to push for a unified PC showing at E3, Valve would be a good candidate.[/b] Lombardi talked about where Valve place themselves in the PC gaming landscape. He described how Valve set up Editor’s Days a few years ago to explain why the PC isn’t dead, and talked about Valve’s motivations for creating Steam.

“We’ve always felt a responsibility to our audience – we’re PC gamers first and we love PC games so we’ve always wanted to do that,” he said. “I mean we’ve built Steam because nobody else was doing it and we built it as solid as we’d need to make PC gaming better.”

“But I think that’s different from saying “We’re the platform holder” right? And we always put the customer first, and that customer may be Joe Gamer living in Springfield, Illinois, or that customer might be the guys at CCP or that customer might be the Red Orchestra guys, Tripwire or Activision or whoever else, right?

“They’re all our customers in one way, and we’re serving those guys and trying to make their lives better on the gaming side, and their experience better on the gamer side, and we’re trying to help the other guys make more creative things and obviously help the revenue where we can and help them get”

Lombardi describes Steam as a “nice set of middleware,” built to make PC gaming more convenient. Once it was done and working, Valve decided to share it around. “Let’s just give that to other developers so that we can get better games going” and keep PC gaming moving forward.” Years later, Steam has 45 million registered accounts.[/quote]

[Tuskin]

That would be sweet if it got worked out.

[koeniginator]

PC Gaming is dead though!!

What are they thinking?!

[OhHello]

If there is some time left Gabe could show everybody his knife collection.

[TaintedTurnip]

[img]http://i.imgur.com/In28O.png[/img]

My brain thought things when I saw this. Sadly I was wrong, but this is still pretty good news.

[maurits]

[QUOTE=LuckyLuke;35204740][img]http://i.imgur.com/In28O.png[/img]

My brain thought things when I saw this. Sadly I was wrong, but this is still pretty good news.[/QUOTE]

They waited so long that I don't even care anymore to be honest.

[Fingers!!!]

[QUOTE=koeniginator;35204703]PC Gaming is dead though!!

What are they thinking?![/QUOTE]

Yeah didn't you guys see razor trying to ressurect it??

[MarkG06]

Gabe'll waddle on, announce Steam for WiiU then waddle off.

[Wiggles]

I've always wondered why they don't have a Steam conference. They could show off games from both big publishers and smaller indie devs, get tons more people interested in the platform, and just have some fun on stage. It would be so much more worthwhile to watch than the boring, cringe worthy conferences from Microsoft and Sony.

[smurfy]

I can't quite imagine a Valve press conference. I'm used to the E3 press conferences being absolutely awful but presumably Valve's wouldn't be

EA's wasn't [i]too[/i] bad last year actually

[Arvuti]

gabe walks in wearing the HEV suit and holding a crowbar.

win

[Scot]

Would be awesome to have Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo and Valve/PC conferences.

[Zapp3d]

[QUOTE=Arvuti;35204956]gabe walks in wearing the HEV suit and holding a crowbar.

win[/QUOTE]

I'll flip shit...

[Charlievrw]

[QUOTE=Arvuti;35204956]gabe walks in wearing the HEV suit and holding a crowbar.

win[/QUOTE]
Half-life 1 coming to XBLA

[smurfy]

[QUOTE=Arvuti;35204956]gabe walks in wearing the HEV suit and holding a crowbar.

win[/QUOTE]

"team fortress 3"

[Curls]

[QUOTE=Arvuti;35204956]gabe walks in wearing the HEV suit and holding a crowbar.

win[/QUOTE]

then announces hats and F2P for counter strike

[1337M347]

[QUOTE=J!NX;35205402]then announces hats and F2P for counter strike[/QUOTE]

No dude, he's going to announce Day of Defeat: Vietnam.

[Glorbo]

"Doug Lombardi talks about maybe perhaps doing something that's related to something"

OH MY GOD HL3 CONFIRMED E3 2012

[FreakySoup]

[QUOTE=Arvuti;35204956]gabe walks in wearing the HEV suit and holding a crowbar.

win[/QUOTE]

Half Life: Blue Shift: Source

[MaxOfS2D]

[QUOTE=Wiggles;35204871]I've always wondered why they don't have a Steam conference. They could show off games from both big publishers and smaller indie devs, get tons more people interested in the platform, and just have some fun on stage. It would be so much more worthwhile to watch than the boring, cringe worthy conferences from Microsoft and Sony.[/QUOTE]

if they ever make a valve event every year there needs to be stand up comedy from the writing team

i'm sure they'd do a great job at it

i want to hear erik wolpaw jabbing as his coworkers

[hoodoo456]

Maybe Doug Lombardi should should say "hey, we finally got off of our fat asses and decided to work on Half-life 3."

[PockyWitch]

Imagine this.
A huge meeting table, gabe wearing a big jacket sitting at one end. There is a big red button in front of him. Gabe:"We are going to resurrect PC gaming".
Gabe gets rid of the jacket to reveal a HL3 T-Shirt.
"HL3..."
He then presses the button.
"...has just been released in that moment. Enjoy."

I know, it will never a happen, but atleast let me dream.

[Curls]

[QUOTE=1337M347;35205537]No dude, he's going to announce Day of Defeat: Vietnam.[/QUOTE]

it'll be Wii exclusive

if I were gabe I would cocktease the audiance for the longest time, have this boring, long talk about stupid things, then go "oh by the way, we are releasing... HATS FOR COUNTERSTRIKE

JUST KIDDING

Half-life 3"

[hoodoo456]

[QUOTE=Dominik93;35205579]Imagine this.
A huge meeting table, gabe wearing a big jacket sitting at one end. There is a big red button in front of him. Gabe:[B]"We are going to resurrect PC gaming"[/B].
Gabe gets rid of the jacket to reveal a HL3 T-Shirt.
"HL3..."
He then presses the button.
"...has just been released in that moment. Enjoy."

I know, it will never a happen, but atleast let me dream.[/QUOTE]
You say that as if it ever died.

[smurfy]

[QUOTE=MaxOfS2D;35205562]if they ever make a valve event every year there needs to be stand up comedy from the writing team

i'm sure they'd do a great job at it

i want to hear erik wolpaw jabbing as his coworkers[/QUOTE]

but i wonder what ep3 would have looked like 25 years ago...

doodlydodoodlydodoodlydo

[Miya]

[QUOTE=smurfy;35205599]but i wonder what ep3 would have looked like 25 years ago...

doodlydodoodlydodoodlydo[/QUOTE]

if valve has someone like mr caffeine there i will slap their shit

for refrence:

[URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecffZBdhAUU[/URL]

[RedStar]

Imagine this.

Gabe walks in. The screen behind him flashes a large lambda, and then a 3.

The crowd starts cheering.

Gabe pulls out a crowbar.

The crowds cheers grow louder. A guy at the back shouts "I love you Gabe!"

He smashes the screen.

"HL3 has been cancelled..."

*GASP*

"...so we can work on..."

[B][I]*GASP*[/I][/B]

"Ricochet 2."

[S31-Syntax]

[QUOTE=markg06;35204854]Gabe'll waddle on, announce Steam for WiiU then waddle off.[/QUOTE]

No, he's stride on, utter words of brilliance, and stride off.

[carcarcargo]

[QUOTE=1337M347;35205537]No dude, he's going to announce Day of Defeat: Vietnam.[/QUOTE]

I wouldn't complain to be honest.

[inconspicious]

Whatever it is, its going to be good!