Gabe Newell on Half-Life 3 for a decade [CrowbCat]

[MadmanMad]

The most depressing thing about this video is you can see the moment the half-life series died.

He was so ready to bring the world a game he believed hadn't been seen before, and then later the same year he didn't even want to acknowledge it.

[NoOneKnowsMe]

[QUOTE=glitchvid;52618362]Most of them aren't researched at all. They mention management (which there isn't, only a skeleton crew of HR to handle the actual hiring-firing paperwork), stock options (Valve is privately owned), and other obvious mistakes that make the AstroTurf apparent.[/QUOTE]

I am pretty sure you can still give stock options, even when your company isn't publicly traded. They are options, after all.

[Shift28]

grow some balls gabe.

[Glitchvid]

[QUOTE=NoOneKnowsMe;52619095]I am pretty sure you can still give stock options, even when your company isn't publicly traded. They are options, after all.[/QUOTE]

Stock 'options' are only good if you can sell them on an open market. What are you gonna do with .01% ownership of Valve?.

[Glitchvid]

[QUOTE=Vodkavia;52619695]*at its beginning.

So many key people have left and in that 10 years the culture and work ethic of valve has to have changed as the system "matures" and people figure out how to game it for their benefit.[/QUOTE]

Assuming the common argument that Portal 2 was Valve's last "good game" , then it served them for 15 years, and it's only been the last 6 that most people here take offence to.

[Luni]

[QUOTE=Megalan;52618153]I can't imagine how this company is still operational.[/QUOTE]

Because they sit on the eternal money machine that is Steam. They don't actually have to make good games, or any games at all, to survive anymore.

[thepain]

[QUOTE=ShaunOfTheLive;52617073]Imagine if the world stopped at World War 2 and World War 3 never came out. Oh wait, damn, it hasn't.

[highlight](User was banned for this post ("Shitpost - Terrible analogy" - Reagy))[/highlight][/QUOTE]
what in the fuck that's a real world event vs a video game and just uh no