Valve's Pricing Experiments Result in Time Travel and 40x Increases in Sales - Polidicks

[QUOTE=Mr. Scorpio;32944594]Gabe Newell, 2% body fat, 80% brain.[/QUOTE] His brain musta expanded so much it started growing throughout his entire body.

Damn I love Valve, you can really tell they're a really smart bunch of guys. I mean, their way of thinking got them Steam, which they're basically dominating the digital distribution market with. I can only hope they continue be this awesome.

valve best gaming company in the world i shouldnt have to pay 70 fucking dollars for mortal kombat

Gabe use that money to help lose weight Please !

[QUOTE=hunter_killah;32944190][img]http://cdn.geekwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/newellfries.jpg?7794fe[/img] [i]Valve's Gabe Newell, left, and former Microsoft game chief Ed [B]Fries[/B].[/i][/QUOTE] [img]http://i.imgur.com/6arzJ.jpg11/Mr_Freeze.jpg[/img]

There's no way EA and those other guys can hope to compete with valve.

We need someone to raise little gabe's and create the best industry in the world.

[QUOTE=noobcake;32944818]where's the other 18% then[/QUOTE] Heart.

[QUOTE=D0C H.;32945206]So wait..... Gabe found a way to charge people [I]less[/I] money for games they want, [B]and make a profit[/B]? This is awesome.[/QUOTE] It's not a wild concept by any means, but, in this economy, most people are too scared of hurting their bottom line to break free of the expected norms. Gabe literally risked the fate of his entire company on this business model, and it paid off big-time. Dude's a ballsy genius. Mad respect.

Even his chair is unusually fat.

[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;32945842]It's not a wild concept by any means, but, in this economy, most people are too scared of hurting their bottom line to break free of the expected norms. Gabe literally risked the fate of his entire company on this business model, and it paid off big-time. Dude's a ballsy genius. Mad respect.[/QUOTE] From what I've heard, nearly everything Valve does is a risk to the company.

Why does he always have his arms crossed? Well he's always doing that arm thing

They've mastered time travel. So why isn't Episode 3 out yet? [QUOTE=Dr.C;32946235]Why does he always have his arms crossed? Well he's always doing that arm thing[/QUOTE] He's actually the ancestor of Commander Shepard.

[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;32945842]It's not a wild concept by any means, but, in this economy, most people are too scared of hurting their bottom line to break free of the expected norms. Gabe literally risked the fate of his entire company on this business model, and it paid off big-time. Dude's a ballsy genius. Mad respect.[/QUOTE] It would have been a calculated risk. I guarantee they have people working for them coming up with "worst case scenario" plans to bail themselves out in case the risk goes sour.

[QUOTE=Dr.C;32946235]Why does he always have his arms crossed? Well he's always doing that arm thing[/QUOTE] He has no idea where else to put his arms.

[QUOTE=Dr.C;32946235]Why does he always have his arms crossed? Well he's always doing that arm thing[/QUOTE] He's had a USB drive containing Ep3 under there for the past 3 years, waiting for someone to move his arms and reveal our beloved Episode 3.

[QUOTE=Dr.C;32946235]Why does he always have his arms crossed? Well he's always doing that arm thing[/QUOTE] I do that too Real bad asses do that.

[QUOTE=FPSMango;32944465]Sorry to be "that guy" but, still waiting for Half-Life 3 Gabe...[/QUOTE]Sorry to be "that guy" but, it's Half-Life 2: [i]Episode Three[/i], not Half-Life [i]3[/i].

[QUOTE=timman;32944244]That picture made me think Gabe Newell stepped down as CEO. Iwaslike nooooooooooooooo[/QUOTE] Gabe is too fat to step down. But we love him still :v: [editline]24th October 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Lordgeorge16;32947202]Sorry to be "that guy" but, it's Half-Life 2: [i]Episode Three[/i], not Half-Life [i]3[/i].[/QUOTE] I am waiting for half-life: white shift. In this game you will play as a scientist

[QUOTE=Lordgeorge16;32947202]Sorry to be "that guy" but, it's Half-Life 2: [i]Episode Three[/i], not Half-Life [i]3[/i].[/QUOTE] I thought they dropped the episode format.

[QUOTE=SSBMX;32947248]Gabe is too fat to step down. But we love him still :v: [editline]24th October 2011[/editline] I am waiting for half-life: white shift. In this game you will play as a scientist[/QUOTE] Cure cancer, Cure blindness Genetically modify yourself into becoming the ultimate super soldier badass, fail, become a mutated fucked up deformed hulk looking thing.

Well, I wasn't expecting gabe and valve to be the ones who discovered time travel. This article makes me want to buy more valve games.

So, sales on Steam actually generate shitloads of money? Sweet, maybe that will result in more sales...

[QUOTE=Agent Fedora;32947512]I thought they dropped the episode format.[/QUOTE]If they did that, they'd have to rename Episodes One and Two to something entirely different and make each one about three times longer. The HL2 Episodes are designed to be short continuations to the series in the form of a trilogy, ergo, the next game has to be called Episode Three.

[QUOTE=Lordgeorge16;32947921]If they did that, they'd have to rename Episodes One and Two to something entirely different and make each one about three times longer. The HL2 Episodes are designed to be short continuations to the series in the form of a trilogy, ergo, the next game has to be called Episode Three.[/QUOTE] They dropped the format years ago when they discovered they weren't following the episodic formula correctly, later on in an interview with Gabe, he stated Episode 3 may as well be called Half-life 3 since they dropped the whole episodic idea.

When Valve makes risks, they've gotten to the point where there can't really be any great consequences financially. With their near unlimited money making machine that is TF2 and the fact that they don't even have to make anything new besides bug fixes and maybe balance tweaks here and there. They've set up a system that rewards content creation and it also gains them profit with little to no effort besides a roundtable meeting and some clicking. Along with major studios having sales every 3 weeks and the mid weak/ weekend sales usually being worth it, they're just swimming in cash right now. One of the reasons why some publishers and distributors are trying to paint them like the bad guy and say that their majority is a bad thing, when time and time again they prove that they care about the customer and getting people a better experience since they understand the system.

[quote]penetrating the Russian market.[/quote]

Well, that explains why I meet so many annoying Russian kids on Garry's mod and TF2.

[QUOTE=Last or First;32946276]They've mastered time travel. So why isn't Episode 3 out yet?[/QUOTE] Time travel is a two-way street. When they siphoned CS money from the future, it ripped episode 3's release date to take its place.

[QUOTE=Lordgeorge16;32947921]If they did that, they'd have to rename Episodes One and Two to something entirely different and make each one about three times longer.[/QUOTE] No they wouldn't. That would be stupid. Why would you think that? [quote]The HL2 Episodes are designed to be short continuations to the series in the form of a trilogy, ergo, the next game has to be called Episode Three.[/quote] Oh, that's why. And that's stupid as well. Episodic content was designed so that each episode would be released in less time than it would take to make a full game, and Valve failed on that end, which is why they're dropping the "episodic" thing. Besides, just because they [I]originally[/I] planned on it being a trilogy [I]doesn't[/I] mean they [I]still[/I] plan on making a third episode instead of a whole new installment to the franchise.