Valve on future Artifact updates: 'We're in this for the long haul"
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Make it F2P and the player count will probably shoot up.
Count me in. I'll check with my buds on Steam too.
This animation is looking more and more prophetic by the day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=632kyLysP6c
What servers does you dad play, I miss HL2:dm
Portal 2's co-op probably killed any interest they had in Left 4 Dead. I don't think it would be impossible for Valve to monetize L4D in a way they like but I also don't think they care enough to try anything
more than what they did with P2 (which wouldn't work) and I certainly don't expect them to do much of anything for free.
your dad has good tastes, heres my hours on HL2:DM
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/58135/dc18fe4e-03c8-48eb-9a28-15baf3f4d8d9/hours.jpg
I just went to find out, and it's not even a UK based server apparently.
He plays hl2:dm every day on an american clan server, which makes it all the better
Imagine if that server fills up (harder and longer than it is, if it already fills) for the next several months from being mentioned on FP.
HL2 Dadmatch
This is literally what every other dev would say knowing their game is going to die soon so good to know that Valve's attempt at damage control is useless as always
and will shoot back down in the next week
Holy shit this video is 6 years old
Looks like the players aren't in it for the long haul!
Im surprised this joke hasn't been made yet
Get paid to do nothing? Sounds great!
I mastered bunny hopping in HL2:DM years and years ago and all of my friends hated me for it.
L4D DLC characters would be impossible due to the amount of voicelines the game has. They would have to do what Payday 2 did and cut all the voiceline conversations and variety whatsoever, leaving only gameplay callouts.
And the sad part is the animator is currently doing more interesting shit than Valve these days. He was responsible for this year's April Fools Rick and Morty "episode."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6yg4ImnYwA
A Valve-game released 9 years ago
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/110384/4b96382c-19c2-4ffc-a2b9-f92ae76b383d/image.png
A Valve-game released 18 years ago:
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/110384/d34c8931-ef02-46a1-a91f-bf76daaf0630/image.png
A Valve-game released less than a month ago:
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/110384/1cd2abe1-0445-41ff-a9c9-54896deff688/image.png
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Their first major update for the game released and it increased the player peak today by 22 people.
I thought i read 22k there for a moment.
We could just do a general "Valve's forgotten children" day, play HL1DM, HL2DM, and DoD:S.
It's a pretty welcome update apparently, includes a lot of stuff the community has been asking for and more and it even lays out a timeline for the next update (next week):
"While finishing this update we've also been working hard on the next update, that we expect to ship next week and which is focused on a skill-based progression system."
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Feels like most of you are salty that they just aren't making the games you expect them to make.
Us, and apparently everyone else considering Artifacts garbage player counts.
I hope you're happy. I cut myself on all this edge and now I have to go to the hospital.
....And? When you're a fan of something, which a lot of people posting on Facepunch probably are fans of Valve or well versed with their games and history, it's extremely disappointing when their latest release years their last product launched is a lackluster, expensive sinkhole when you think about all the wasted IP's that Valve seemingly cares to do nothing with and showing no signs of developing anything new beyond the conceptual stage.
People generally dislike when companies make bad games yes.
Fundamentally speaking, he's not wrong. People are mad that Valve made a game no one wanted. Technically speaking, Artifact also is not a bad game in terms of the core mechanics and design.
But Valve created a game for an audience that didn't exist, put it behind a $20 admission fee despite being a spinoff of a mod turned into a free-to-play product, and then skullfucked the design of it by heavily enforcing an attempt at a self-controlled market of card distribution and deck building, which did not fly over well at all. And trying to make sure that if you invest in the game at all beyond the basic training decks by opening your own free starter decks and card packs, you can't refund the game anymore regardless of their otherwise refund rule for every other product.
Valve can stick to it for the long haul if they want, and who knows, maybe a year or two from now the game will be respectable. But as it stands, they not only fucked up but are blatantly showing a greedy, scummy hand and they got fucked for it accordingly.
I expect something that's actually good.
If you enjoy playing this garbage, go right ahead.
Make shit game, get shit results.
More like valve is long-hauling their asses off a cliff.
The refund restriction is to prevent people from buying the game, selling off the cards, then refunding it.
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