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Gabe says that, if Valve were to be bought by EA, EA will simply take their IP and Steam, and the company will be dead in two years.
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“It’s way more likely we would head in that direction than say, ‘Let’s find some giant company that wants to cash us out and wait two or three years to have our employment agreements terminate.”
I just wanted to take this time and say...
THANK GOD FOR THAT!
Valve is THE Best gaming company at the moment. They take so much love and care, and are always trying to push the medium forward.
I'm going to use this thread to point out why Valve is so great, and just really gush :3
- Steam is really the only platform for PC Gamers where one can socialize, play games, and Buy games at the same time. (Origin can go shove its EULA up its ass)
- Steam is a HUGE support for Indie games. Without it, I would not have ever known/bought games like Super Meat Boy, Binding of Isaac, Rock of Ages, Recettear, Limbo, Braid, Bastion, Lone Survivor, and many more. Honestly, each game can be it's own point!
- Steam Sales allows me to buy old classic games for extremely cheap (without the need to pirate it). Games like Bioshock, Psychonaut, Prince of Persia sands of time, etc.
- Steam Sales is just awesome in general. Remember how EA said Steam Sales "cheapen" games, and then they have their own Origin Indie sale, and are now trying to buy out valve? Yeah, FUCK You EA.
- Even some better Indie games from EA's "Indie dept" were sold on Steam. I bought WARP on steam. Suck it, EA Origin.
- Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2 release was really close together and got people angry, So what did they do? They made players from both games be able to play together, on ALL maps!!
- The Orange Box - Wow....
- Half-Life!!! ! ! ! ! !
- Portal 2 was amazing!! But they didn't stop there, they went ahead and made a LEVEL CREATOR For Portal 2!!!
- Team Fortress 2 is an old game.. But they've literally been updating it all the time!! Right now, they recently release Mann vs Machine!
- NO Other companies can love their games and put so much attention to them. The important thing is that they made sure every single detail of the game is well designed and gives their customer as much mileage as possible. The Portal 2 level creator was awesome and so easy to use. You hear that? Blizzard? Fuck your editor.
- Steam is also being updated constantly, recently with Game Hubs and Greenlight - Further providing help to indie developers!
- They listen to the community! They actually do!!
- Valve's business model has such an impossibly high reputation! Almost every game created by valve have become an internet meme. Valve is truly the real face of the gaming industry. Blizz, EA, activision and all of their "hardcore" shit can go to hell. I don't need shitty editors, and esports, and 14 year old kids teabagging me.
Anyway, not much to discuss other than that Valve is amazing.
Share your love here!
(Also, when I rant about blizz, I meant blizzard of today. Blizzard of yesteryear was just as amazing as valve. Too bad they sold out)
Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Sep 11 2012, 6:25 pm by UnholyUrine.
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