• Half Likes-VNN
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E79i2xUAmNU&t=118s
Valve's working on games, it's just as Tyler said 98% don't get finished. There's two possibilities. -Most people working at Valve honestly prefer (for now) working on VR and other things -The people with power in Valve, the cabal bosses honestly prefer (for now) to work on VR and other things, and are able to most people at Valve who isn't as popular or powerful work on those things Just have to wait and see what the other games they're making besides Artifact are.
Valve's legit making a Half-Life VR game. Grabbity gloves, headcrabs, turrets, more stuff has leaked in SteamVR updates. I hope they are smart and release a regular Half-Life game alongside it to not incur a nuclear tsunami of wrath.
Yeah they were working on it, but who knows whether anything actually came of it.
It'd be a fun diversion (as SteamVR is actually fun to dick around in/use as a menu) however it'd be just another reminder about a dead series which had its last notable release about a decade ago, and even then it was little more then a set of a few (albiet incredibly good) maps. Honestly I'd like Valve to make at least stuff like that one alien shooter they once did on occasion. Stuff to concretely say "Yeah, we're still making games, we aren't sitting here jacking off!" Because sometimes, it seems that resting on their laurals is exactly what they are doing.
It kinda just looks like the few lazy game developers that are left are just kinda riding the salary paycheck, playing around with VR shit but not committing to anything. Just being lazy but acting like they are doing something. The game developers (writers/coders/artists) that wanted to actually make games left to, well, make games. The other 90% of Valve isn't involved with any development. On the other hand they have invested a shit-ton of money in VR so they need to push for that. I think it just didn't become as popular as they had hoped. I fear Valve is dragging their shoes on being innovative, the one thing that made them popular to start. They will implode if they don't start investing heavily in R&D. While hardware breakthroughs have slowed, the social technology side is changing so rapidly. Fads have gone from years to months. You can no longer trust to ride on other peoples ideas. I do honestly think Valve has the right idea with VR, they just need to make some quality content for it and sell the hardware cheaper. Even if they sell the hardware at a loss at first, it will allow more people to purchase it and thus make it more prominent. Console developers can do it because they have the content to back it. The VR market is still open for domination and Valve has a perfect opportunity to take it. At the end of the day we all know Valve doesn't have to create anything new, as they dominate the PC gaming market to the point of monopoly. They also make insane money from microtransactions from their old rehashed games by letting the community do a lot of the work and then paying them pennies on the dollar, they even extended this to third party games. Granted years ago they put out some decent in house developed content for TF2/CS:GO but nothing as of late. tldr; I miss you Valve! pssst: I'm drunk!
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