As I was perusing all the various Half-life Side-games (Opposing Force, Decay, etc.) I stumbled upon Half-life 2: Survivor, a Japan-only arcade game intended to help Valve break into Japan.
That got me thinking: how well DOES Valve do in other countries? Are there Francophones who can't get enough L4D? Are there people in Korea or Japan drawing stylized fan art of Alyx in school uniforms or something? Is there some hitherto undiscovered civilization deep within the Gobi Desert that adores Ricochet?
Just curious.
I heard that the Martians like TFC
[QUOTE=Chief343;36950364]I heard that the Martians like TFC[/QUOTE]
i thought they were more into HL2 with the striders being tripods and all
The title made me think of [url=http://www.dota2.com/tournaments/international/]The International (DOTA)[/url]
As for your question, yes. There are games partially from Valve not available to Western markets, but that's because of their partnership with Nexon in the Asian Market.
Counterstrike Online is one example
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-Strike_Online[/url]
Although Survivor was a Japan-only exclusive, I don't think the Half-Life series is all that big there. In fact, both revisions of Survivor have long been pulled from arcades. You can read the final "good bye" message [url=http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fhl2survivor.net%2Fnews%2Findex.html]here[/url]. The developer Taito has since moved on to a new Source-powered arcade shooter spiritual successor to Survivor known as CYBERDIVER:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QapVMcrpa1o[/media]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5ICuC_7DD8[/media]
If the Japanese population were truly enthused by Half-Life, you'd figure Taito would stick with the franchise in their future titles, but alas, it wasn't so.
Steam happened to cut down on video game piracy in Russia.
CS 1.6 appears to be way more popular in eastern europe and Mexico than it is in the US at least. I have difficulty sometimes finding a US server that I get a good ping to and I don't want to pay for esea that puts so much spam in the server browser for shitty servers that I can't connect to. I think valve should keep them out of the master list as ESEA has their own program. CS 1.6 is probably more popular in those lower income countries because it can run on any computer and for free due to the large amount of nonsteam servers. I just prefer it because of the gun feel.
Why does Asia have its own cheap copy of every game?
[QUOTE=gav618;36952848]CS 1.6 appears to be way more popular in eastern europe and Mexico than it is in the US at least. I have difficulty sometimes finding a US server that I get a good ping to and I don't want to pay for esea that puts so much spam in the server browser for shitty servers that I can't connect to. I think valve should keep them out of the master list as ESEA has their own program. CS 1.6 is probably more popular in those lower income countries because it can run on any computer and for free due to the large amount of nonsteam servers. I just prefer it because of the gun feel.[/QUOTE]
Don't forget how easy it is to pirate CS 1.6.
Seriously, every one of my friends that has CS 1.6 has pirated their copy, and I'm talking about Serbs here.
Imagine how many people pirate CS 1.6 all around Eastern Europe.
What I want to know is WHY ISN'T THERE A EUROPEAN BRANCH OF THE VALVE STORE.
It costs SO much to import!
[QUOTE=Marphy Black;36950760][url=http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fhl2survivor.net%2Fnews%2Findex.html]here[/url].[/QUOTE]
[img]http://hl2survivor.net/news/images/emb10.jpg[/img]
What does that even have to do with half life 2?
[QUOTE=Jetamo;36996710]What I want to know is WHY ISN'T THERE A EUROPEAN BRANCH OF THE VALVE STORE.
It costs SO much to import![/QUOTE]
£20 shipping on a £8 poster.
There's people playing half life and other source games in any country- I mean, go on 2ch (Japan's biggest imageboard) and there's a thread for csgo, gmod and tf2. It's just an extremely small amount of people compared to western countries which is partly due to people having less powerful computers.
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