• Gabe Newell talks about what's happening at Valve
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you guys may be discussing how bad he looks but he's still millions of dollars ahead of you
[QUOTE=Antimuffin;41236609]So you take your whole opinion on "There are lots of things behind Valve's curtain that will break your heart" because of this single post? Valve has no management structure, and that is the reason why the devs love working at Valve. They can work on whatever they want. They have massage rooms, their desks run on wheels so they can team up with others quick and easy. Maybe they didn't know it was his stuffed animal? You don't know the exact story behind it. I dont know either, so making assumptions, that the whole company seems to be fake to the viewer based on a facebook post by one of the (ex-)devs is kinda wrong. If they would be a dick to me, then how about complaining? There is something called employee rights. I'm certain that the devs aren't dicks 24/7, because they all need to work in teams. Otherwise the whole company wouldn't even work. This would've come out much much earlier, if there would be such problems at Valve. Just look at the devs of Dungeon Defenders. Or at Rockstar and so on. I also guess he gets enough benefits for even working at Valve, that it compensates what they did with his stuffed animal. Valve fired the 25 devs because they worked on Augmented Reality and for Valve, as a primary game developer, Virtual Reality is more important.[/QUOTE] The pic isn't the foundation to say what's bad, just highlights something which is hard to believe without such facts. (edit: it could be viewed as an illogical fallacy, but it's my foundation for what upsets me) But reality some things you said are not true, not that you're misunderstanding the facts that were given to you, the story learning after the matter is far different. Except for the employee rights, you're under contract and those rights vary state by state, in fact they fired them with 24 hour notice. Which you have to ask and I think I do not have to beat around the bush on this, if they felt those employees were worth keeping wouldn't they have asked for them to stop before firing them without notice? Also valve is very secretive, to a point where some people are kept in the dark and you can't give any hints to what you're doing. I have to reiterate there are good hardworking people valve and those individuals should be respected, but it's not candy land. Honestly after knowing how valve really works I'm happy Garry Newman didn't get hired or he wouldn't have been or successful with gmod in the long run. Another thing this is becoming off topic to the video.
[QUOTE=01271;41230295]It's the programmer's curse. Eventually he'll look identical to Stallman. [img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/Richard_Stallman_2005_chrys.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] And now we just have to wait for Gabe to go completely batshit insane.
[QUOTE=01271;41230295]It's the programmer's curse. Eventually he'll look identical to Stallman. [IMG]http://filesmelt.com/dl/Richard_Stallman_2005_chrys.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] We will know once gabe starts eating his own feet. [editline]30th June 2013[/editline] [video=youtube;I25UeVXrEHQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I25UeVXrEHQ&t=1m52s[/video] (jump to to the 1:52 mark)
[QUOTE=Elv02;41228144]Can you elaborate on that?[/QUOTE] There's the firing of Valve's hardware team. I elaborated in [url=http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1238036&p=41252212&viewfull=1#post41252212]this post[/url] with a link to an interview with Jeri Ellsworth.
[QUOTE=Marlamin;41252717]There's the firing of Valve's hardware team. I elaborated in [url=http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1238036&p=41252212&viewfull=1#post41252212]this post[/url] with a link to an interview with Jeri Ellsworth.[/QUOTE] Ah okay, thought her comment was more kept private about that. The dysfunction at valve needs to come to light under common knowledge so they can admit they have a problem then just denying it and saying episode 3 is being worked on.
I think judging by how much of a beard he's got and how untidy his hair is, he's been doing a lot of work. I really think Gabe is such an awesome guy, I would hug him if I could! If I had one question for him it would be Half Life 3 but I think I'd get a disappointing answer.
Maybe his beard is an indicator on HL3's development. Possibly never ending.
[QUOTE=Roof;41249124]you guys may be discussing how bad he looks but he's still millions of dollars ahead of you[/QUOTE] [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabe_newell]About $1.5 billion ahead actually.[/url]
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