The "I EMAILED SOMEBODY AT VALVE!" thread, post your questions and replies here

[slt-awesome]

[QUOTE=Zachary1392]Achievements are pointless and retarded.

I'm sorry, but it's the truth.[/QUOTE]

Of course they are. As is playing games in the first place... or doing anything for that matter. But they add to replay value and some of them can only be achieved through methods which guarantee massive lulz.

[Fanboydude]

[QUOTE=Zachary1392]Achievements are pointless and retarded.

I'm sorry, but it's the truth.[/QUOTE]

[MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdZC5LJswFE[/MEDIA]

[Levybreak]

[quote=email]
Levybreak,

In their reality there is no Halloween, hence no holiday video. As for your inability to enter a simple set of characters into a box... not sure what to say there.... type better?

thanks

Chet

From: Gabe Newell
Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2008 1:05 PM
To: Chet Faliszek
Subject: FW: Question(s) (Revised)

From: [removed]
Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2008 7:36 AM
To: Gabe Newell
Subject: Question(s) (Revised)

Hello, I have a question (or a few) about the [url]http://www.aperturescience.com/[/url] webpage.

Why is it playing a holiday video? (Why not a Halloween one? I mean, it IS october now... :D )

Why does the apply program always fail when you input your 64 character alpha-numeric UIN(+L) at the end? I know I typed it in right, yet it said I got it wrong...

Thanks,
Levybreak

EDIT: And why is the lawn gnome from HL2:EP2 in the holiday video....?
[/quote]

Why do they mock me so? >.<
Dang, I really wanted an answer to the last part about the gnome...

[Nerdboy]

[QUOTE=Zachary1392]Achievements are pointless and retarded.

I'm sorry, but it's the truth.[/QUOTE]

You're just complaining because you've probably got like 5 gamerscore points and are just jealous of my 52900.

[Havoc Ryder]

[QUOTE=UncleFester]I have both the ps3 plain out sucks because i went through 3 of the fucking things and my 360, Well almost went through 1[/QUOTE]

Why don't i believe you? [i]3[/i]? Come on man.

[UncleFester]

[QUOTE=Adamhully]Why don't i believe you? [i]3[/i]? Come on man.[/QUOTE]
Well, 3 total... But don't tell nobody or i'll come to your house and you better hope to god your emo because i'll cut you

[Cathbadh]

[QUOTE=Nerdboy]You're just complaining because you've probably got like 5 gamerscore points and are just jealous of my 52900.[/QUOTE]
E-penis is not a real penis, you know.

[XSarcYX]

[QUOTE=Cathbadh]E-penis is not a real penis, you know.[/QUOTE]

Still has [i]penis[/i] in it, though :eng101:

[PatrickJr]

I sent one to Gabe and got fuck all back, :shakefist:

[ryno5660]

I asked him what weapon he would've put in Hl2 but couldn't for some reason, he said the hive hand.
That's it.

[Smirnoff Joe]

[QUOTE=Nerdboy]You're just complaining because you've probably got like 5 gamerscore points and are just jealous of my 52900.[/QUOTE]
I hope that Valve does achievement points for Steam one day.

But wait, they're already doing that whole unlockables schpiel instead.

[RiptideYarr]

[QUOTE=Smirnoff Joe]They're right to. If I ever played one, it'd feel like i'm playing nothing at all.[/QUOTE]
[IMG]http://www.cubeupload.com/files/139169stupidsexyflandersxi9.gi.gif[/IMG]
Feels like I'm playing.. nothing at all.. nothing at all.. nothing at all!

[Fire Island]

I'm going to send him a really witty joke about his weight:

"Hey Gabe, you're so fat, you're bigger than normal people!"

[strong_bad]

I asked about L4D achievements.
[quote]Michael,

If you played the Orange Box, you will remember we tend to like a mix of achievements. Some straigh forward, some for doing actions and a few goofy ones. We have a few beat the level ones as well. And while we have a Kill X amount of zombies achievement, if you are a fan of zombie games I am sure you will appreciate it.

Thanks

Chet

From: Gabe Newell
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 5:23 PM
To: Chet Faliszek
Subject: FW: Left 4 Dead Acheievements

From: Michael ******* [mailto:********************]
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 5:12 PM
To: Gabe Newell
Subject: Left 4 Dead Acheievements

I'm a long time fan, first time email-sender, and I have a quick question. What kind of achievements will we be seeing in Left 4 Dead, besides the standard "Beaten the Level", and "Get x Amount of Kills"?

-Michael[/quote]

[Karmah]

[QUOTE=RiptideYarr][IMG]http://www.cubeupload.com/files/139169stupidsexyflandersxi9.gi.gif[/IMG]
Feels like I'm playing.. nothing at all.. nothing at all.. nothing at all![/QUOTE]

Damn I was going to post that :excited:

[SteveS]

So I asked Mike Durand who does the Source SDK if we'd be able to make mods on the L4D engine and how open SteamWorks was to mod teams, this is what I got:

[img]http://xs232.xs.to/xs232/08423/l4d-sdk795.jpg[/img]

[Take_Opal]

I sent this and I'm awaiting a response:

[quote=Me :D]I've been wanting this to be a feature in steam for a long time, and I hadn't ever thought of emailing you about it.

Well I believe that it would be a great idea to have some sort of "email" feature in Steam, not like [email][e-mail][/email] - I mean like the ability to email friends or group members who are offline and you need to inform them.

This would also help active groups since it can help organize events. I know the event warning appears but it only appears for a few moments after it has been posted. With the steam email it could stand out and it would be very easy to notify someone of something

I would find this very, very, very convenient and cool. I'm sure a lot of other Steam users would love this feature as well.

I hope you do add this to steam in the near future. And if you do, I will love Valve and Steam forever :D

Sincerely
-Kurt Cobain [/quote]

[Fangus]

[QUOTE=SteveUK]So I asked Mike Durand who does the Source SDK if we'd be able to make mods on the L4D engine and how open SteamWorks was to mod teams, this is what I got:

[img]http://xs232.xs.to/xs232/08423/l4d-sdk795.jpg[/im[/QUOTE]You use thunderbird and gmail. Marry me.
I asked a question (it was quite a while ago now) about how to get into the games industry, and some woman gave me a really nice, lengthy reply.

[JLea]

[QUOTE=SteveUK]So I asked Mike Durand who does the Source SDK if we'd be able to make mods on the L4D engine and how open SteamWorks was to mod teams, this is what I got:

[img]http://xs232.xs.to/xs232/08423/l4d-sdk795.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]

Ask him when HE'S FUCKING GOING TO RELEASE THE SHADER COMPILERS

Honestly, the Orange Box has been out for 1 year and he still hasn't released them.

[Smirnoff Joe]

[QUOTE=Fire Island]I'm going to send him a really witty joke about his weight:

"Hey Gabe, you're so fat, you're bigger than normal people!"[/QUOTE]
I guess that's why he delayed the TF2 class update 'till next year. Nice going there.

[Witchita]

[QUOTE=JLea]Ask him when HE'S FUCKING GOING TO RELEASE THE SHADER COMPILERS

Honestly, the Orange Box has been out for 1 year and he still hasn't released them.[/QUOTE]
Ahahaa, I think think, he's keeping them for reserve.

[_Kilburn]

By the way, do they always answer when you mail them? Because I sent a mail to Gabe a little more than a week ago, and I still got no answer. So does this mean I wrote really seriously shitty shit?

[Teh_Cheese]

[QUOTE=Take_Opal]Kurt Cobain[/QUOTE]
I think that's the reason :v:

[b]Edit:[/b]

[QUOTE=_Kilburn]By the way, do they always answer when you mail them? Because I sent a mail to Gabe a little more than a week ago, and I still got no answer. So does this mean I wrote really seriously shitty shit?[/QUOTE]
No, would you like to answer tons of emails that are not business related?
in one day?
You should most likely do it around 8:00 California time.

[Xenos]

[QUOTE=blafnigem]Holy fuck I live like three cities away! I totally heave a better chance of meeting meeting him than most guys here[/QUOTE]
I live in seattle. Where are U?

[borisvdb]

[QUOTE=Marc Laidlaw]The Combine is a combination of different species (including humans) working (or forced to work) together. Other than that, you’ll have to stay tuned for more information as we work it into the games.

From: boris vanderbeek [mailto:[e-mail]]
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 4:57 PM
To: Marc Laidlaw
Subject: Re: 7hr

Yes, but the Roman Empire were all humans and as far as I could tell the Advisors and the Striders are two different species. What I'm trying to ask is if there is some evil overlord apart from dr. Breen that drove the combine into conquering the human race?

From: Marc Laidlaw <[e-mail]>
To: "[e-mail]" <[e-mail]>
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 4:18:49 PM
Subject: RE: 7hr

Hi, Boris,

“The Combine” is a name for a large organization. So asking if the Advisors are the Combine is like asking if a Roman Senator is the Roman Empire . There’s no one creature called The Combine.

Marc Laidlaw

From: Gabe Newell
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 4:10 PM
To: Marc Laidlaw
Subject: FW: 7hr

From: boris vanderbeek [mailto:[e-mail]]
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 4:04 PM
To: Gabe Newell
Subject: 7hr

Are the advisors the combine in their true form since striders and gunships are robots (I think), or will the true form of the combine be revealed in ep3?
[/QUOTE]

Maybe the combine are working with the Gman!
Either way, I'm exited.

[StoneFrog]

I once emailed Gabe about TF2 and he answered me. Since then he hasn't answered my other 20 emails. I'm almost certain it's one-per-address.

TO GMAIL!

[Riptide2]

fagballs

[Saxon]

[QUOTE=Gabe Newell]
RE: Secret&#8207;
From: Gabe Newell ([e-mail])
Sent: Tue 12/02/08 3:47 AM
To: 'wade arendsee' ([e-mail])

Argh. I knew I shouldn’t have worn my grranimals that day.

From: wade arendsee [mailto:[e-mail]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 1:26 AM
To: Gabe Newell
Subject: Secret

Dear Gabe,

I know your secret.

Also, Left 4 Dead is awesome[/QUOTE]
Emailed Gabe at 3:55 AM and got a response in about 10 minutes

[Captain Forever]

Someone email him this picture that I made.

[IMG]http://img116.imageshack.us/img116/1494/22640011ps3.jpg[/IMG]

[ZomBuster]

[QUOTE=Saxon]Emailed Gabe at 3:55 AM and got a response in about 10 minutes[/QUOTE]

what the hell is a grranimals

oh granimals

[i]wearing the same color shirt as your pants, without anything in between.[/i]