In Training posted:

Holy gently caress...this dAy can't get any more epic. The latest announcement from Randy Pitchford just came in

Daikatana Ritsu posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVZg2fGvTRU

Lumpy the Cook posted:

Fredrik1 posted:

I'll tap two blast pits and use my Alyx once per turn ability to destroy both of your combine troopers, can't believe they finally released half life 3. Your turn.

ArfJason posted:

Liquid Drink posted:

Yeah Wolfenstein The New Order is so loving good. Like when you go to the concentration camp and the jewish guy is from a magic race of people who live in atlantis and have space technology and yet were somehow subjugated negating the horrors of the holocaust lol. Such a great game! HITLERS MOON BASE LOL! Monkey loving cheese

Syncopated posted:

That was dogshit. Real bad.

Lumpy the Cook posted:

Nearly all of Valve's senior creative staff- writers, game environment designers, concept artists, Source engine lead programmers, lead game designers, etc.- have been trickling out since sometime around Portal 2's launch, when Valve realized they could just pump out DOTA 2/CSGO cosmetics for eternity without having to actually put effort into making games.

Steam will probably be around long after we die, but what really made Valve Valve is basically all gone. The Valve that brought us HL2 and TF2 and the L4D and Portal games had no chance of making HL3 anywhere near great enough to live up to the massive hype behind it. What chance does the Valve that brought us CSGO and DOTA 2 have?

People really need to move on. The Metro games are better than Half Life 3 would have been. Vermintide is better than Left 4 Dead 3 would have been. Other developers, like Respawn, are using the Source engine more effectively than Valve is at this point. If Valve wants to cater to people with MOBA brain disease for max profit margins, that's their business. People who want to play games that are actually decent are free to look elsewhere.

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Talented 3D artists surged out of the woodwork, and the airwaves were saturated with feel-good stories of creators making very decent, livable wages off the sales of Demoman swords, machine gun skins and wacky couriers.

Valve themselves eagerly trumpeted that they had paid more than $57 million to Steam Workshop creators over four years — an enormously impressive figure until you realize that it's only 25 percent of the sale price, which means Valve just made $171 million profit from ... setting up an online form where you can submit finished 3D models.