What the fuck happened?

his barber's the same guy who's working on HL3

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>>376766284

Anyone remember 2010 when this guy was god here?

A fuck was given under no circumstances.

>>376766550

the sales were better too anon

We made too many fat jokes.

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Literally more wealthy than the most powerful man in the free world

He predicted this as Steam grew and realized he can't take any chances doing or releasing anything that would heavily damage his or his companies credibility as a distributor or developer (Half Life 3)

It hurts me, but at least I've moved past it.

Now Metal Gear hurts me every day

>>376766687
>more wealthy than the richest man in the world
??????

>>376766284
People are mad that a business that sells products,attempted to sell a product. I mean really i can't believe this shit

>>376766476
requesting the alternate version of this pic

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>>376766687

>won't make half life 3
>sits on the CS:GO and Dota 2 cash bin spawned from tf2 hats faggotry
>lets any developer that will give him money onto his platform to sell literal asset flips
>is being sued by a different country every year

how do we stop this mad man?

>>376766758
more wealthy than the most technical powerful man in the free world

>>376766906
Which would be the man with the most money in the free world.

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Half life 3 will be the premiere game at this years e3 2017, 10 years after Half life 2 EP 2 ending.

Don't believe me. Check the 3 at the end of this post number.

>>376766284
Gabe still has friends at Microsoft. He was made aware before just about anyone of the existence of Windows 10 S and Microsoft's plan to make it the primary version of Windows long before anyone else.

Knowing that this would kill PC gaming as we know it, he started pouring all of the resources Valve could spare into making GNU/Linux into a viable platform for PC gaming.
The nature of this sort of thing meant that Valve had to announce their initiative long before it was ready for mainstream consumption in order to get some kind of support for it which led to a lot of people writing it off as a failure or a foolish waste spurred on by paranoia.

Until a couple of weeks ago when Microsoft tipped their hand announcing 10 S. Now the wisdom of Gabe starting years ago is apparent. 25% of the entire Steam library, Nvidia drivers on par with their Windows counterpart, and Linux-exclusive AMD drivers that are actually good isn't a bad starting point.

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>>376766598
>censoring "fucking"
Where did you get this?

>>376767109
Half life 3 will NEVER come out you stupid faggot

>>376767196

IT WILL COME OUT, OR SO THESE DUBS HELP ME

I've stood by this theory for years, but I think that he won't shave the beard until Half Life 3 comes out.

>>376766476
>piracy is a service problem
>steam was a great platform (originally) but had no effect on piracy.
>becomes Jewish

Fucking pirates ruined Gabe.

>>376767135
Windows 10 S?

why make things and get millions when you can do nothing and get billions

>>376767153

what did you expect from a reddit screencap? they cant even get that right

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>>376766284
>for every new steam user, his wizard powers grow more powerful
>for every refund he grows older
>will soon set his sights on Microsoft

>>376766897
with milk and cookies

>>376767483

>Steam OS
>OS

SOON

GABE WANTS DIRECT CONTROL

>>376766603
This. I miss the crazy developer sales.

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>>376767109
>9
>3*3=9

OMG

I know they've really died down lately but I'd appreciate HL3 coming out just for it finally killing the fucking jokes.

>>376767437
A stripped down version of windows on prebuilt hardware to compete with chrome books that can be unlocked to full windows with a cost cheaper than buying a new copy of windows.

I.e. Nothing that will effect most pc gamers but /v/ still goes into autistic screeching about.

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>>376767676

>76767676

>>376766476
Does gabe get a new pic now for changing how gifting works so he can fuck over G2A?

VR and Windows Store paranoia

>>376766284
Food

>>376766284
They make a lot of fucking money off the Steam store. Like a lot a lot. Why make games when you can make "services" that make way more money way more consistently?

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>>376767676
Nigga

>>376767516
>>>376766897
>with milk
go back to /pol/

>>376766284
Why make games when you can just make 30% off everyone else's while doing jack shit?

They refuse to hire new people. Nobody at left at valve could feasibly program a high profile game to meet modern standards anymore.

All they can do is dick around with what they already have and exploit community workshop stuff.

>>376766897
Drop a colony on Australia.

SIEG ZEON!

>>376766897
I don't know, you and I made him who he is today?

Does /v/ ever stop to consider how much WE play into why the vidya industry has problems?

>>376769279
>Nobody at left at valve could feasibly program a high profile game to meet modern standards anymore

Sure they could, it's just that doing what they're currently doing is a much more profitable use of their time.

If you are a creative employee with a great idea for a game, you have to pitch it to Gabe based on how much money it will earn. It could be the greatest game in the world but they won't make it if they don't think it can be turned into a cash cow.

>>376767135

Complete bullshit. Valve just didn't want to be held to the whims of Microsoft and whatever changes they made. Additionally the writing is on the wall that Xbox will eventually be merged with windows support, or rather visa versa.

Really Valve's only real competition would be if microsoft decides to double down on their xbox market and bake the xbox software into win10 allowing for their games to be played on either a console or PC. One digital purchase and it would work on either, simply tied to your microsoft account. Overnight they would have a HUGE userbase. With everything being X86 it would only be an issue of driver support and comps being beefy enough.

Valve just wants to not be under microsofts thumb if they become a legitimate competitor, so they opted for fucking linux with it's lacking driver support and API's in the hopes that if they brought he audience the support would follow.

So with the recent gifting changes, I know friends from other countries on Steam can no longer gift you games but could a friend log into your account from another country and buy the game?

>>376767709
There's no way that 10 S stays confined to a limited set of hardware. Outside of PC gaming hardware its likely to become the norm as Windows OEMs race to the bottom.
Without the normies PC gaming as we know it will go from a 150 million or so users, to something more like 20 million.
That would be good for Linux gamers, they'll go from 1% to 10% pretty quickly as the Windows population on Steam drops like a rock.
It also means though that there will be a lot less money in PC gaming so we'll have another mini crash like the one we had in the early 00s after the Xbox came out and before Steam.

Should also point out that if you want a stripped down OS ChromeOS already exists, and getting it running desktop Linux stuff doesn't cost anything. Google even made the user experience better by using Wayland (next-gen Linux graphics layer).

>>376766897

key his porsche 911 turbo S. it's red

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>>376767676
>76767676

>>376766284
he realise that he can win money without doing anything

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>>376767305
NEVER

EVER
VER
ER
R

>>376766598
-2365

kek

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>>376769936
>Really Valve's only real competition would be if microsoft decides to double down on their xbox market and bake the xbox software into win10 allowing for their games to be played on either a console or PC.

If you hadn't noticed, that's exactly what Microsoft are doing. 10 S can only run applications from the Windows Store and coincidentally Microsoft is putting Xbone games onto the store.

>so they opted for fucking linux
Its the only real option out there other than making yet another BSD which would require more work for less support, or building an OS from scratch which is basically impossible.

>with it's lacking driver support
This is no longer true. The Nvidia driver is the same one as Windows and on-par in performance in apples to apples comparisons. The AMD driver is better than AMD's own, and continuing to improve.
The only time you see lower performance on Linux is when you take games written for Microsoft's non-standard APIs and porters have to retro-fit them to the standard. Its like back when people thought IE was a better browser because there were all those pages with 'Better with IE' badges that fucked up in Chrome because they were non-standard shit.

>and API's
Vulkan is technologically superior to everything else available today. Microsoft's insistence on forcing people to use inferior console graphics solutions is as horrible as Apple's attempt to force mobile graphics on the desktop.

>>376766419
KEK

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>>376767676

neat

>>376767676
legendary my mate

>>376770205
>implying steam won't end up on the windows store.

>>376767387
I would not say that it didn't have an effect on piracy. I used to pirate all of my games, simply because it was more convenient. I was never really short on money, so when Steam started getting big I bought all of my games on Steam and I haven't pirated in years.

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>>376771153
The whole point of the Store and 10 S is that it doesn't allow Steam. What would Steam even do if it was in the store but you couldn't install and play games with it?

Microsoft won't even allow Chrome or Firefox on the store and you think they'd allow Steam?

>>376771470
>The Whole point of the store and 10s is that it doesn't allow (insert 3rd party app)

Oh wait. iTunes just happened.

>>376766284
Dota 2 became his cash cow so he made all 300 of his employees work on it while other valve games stopped getting attention, updates, or people to work on them.

>>376771758
iTunes isn't a front end for installing third party software.
Read up on the history of Microsoft and Apple. Apple is Microsoft's one chosen token competitor they keep around to keep regulators off their back.

Also wouldn't be surprised if that Windows 10 iTunes has to use Trident instead of webkit. That definitely wouldn't be fun for the devs.

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>>376767676
motherfucker you just cracked the davinci code

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>>376767676
The end is neigh!

James was an ass, much like Gaben.

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>>376766897
>how do we stop this mad man
Stop using steam, is simple

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>>376772496
>microsofts token competition has almost double the market cap and free capital of itself.

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>>376767676

>>376773483
Microsoft's losing control is exactly why they're locking things down.
I guess you could look at it as the roles now being reversed.
Apple wants into the Windows Store to hurt Google and GNU/Linux and let them show off Windows as their competition.

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>>376767676

>>376767135
>>376769936
This isn't entirely correct afaik. Gaben talks about it somewhere, he basically states that based off the success of the apple store it was inevitable that Microsoft would create their own store. He notes that by ensuring a closed system they can maintain and profit based off who is on the store.

>>376766284
Greed and Gluttony are one of the worst sins for a reason.

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>>376766598

Reminder that Gabe was right.

>Team Fortress and Counter Strike, two Quake mods, are sold as standalones and become extremely popular
>in-game shops in TF2, CSGO, and DOTA 2 sell community-made mods to players and split the revenue between Valve and the mod creator, nobody takes issue with this and MANY MILLIONS of people use this system
>Valve takes WHAT THEY WERE ALREADY DOING a step further and lets average joe Workshop mod creators charge for mods (Steam is, after all, a platform for selling digital IP)
>community flips shit because they mistakenly think that Valve is putting an end to free mods
>everybody conveniently forgets the fact that nobody bought the Skyrim mods in question even though Valve pitched them super hard, proving that the uproar over "paid mods" was unnecessary

>>376766284
He looks like such a piece of shit now with his new glasses and haircut.

>>376774223
the fear was that content creators would stop putting their work up for free on sites like the nexus and loverslab and swap over to the paid modding model. The initial trial failed before it even took off, and during this time there was severe damage done to the modding community. People were taking free mods off the nexus and uploading them as their own to steam workshop for money. The whole thing was a shit show.

>>376767676
Nice

>>376766476
Piracy is not a service problem. It's a social one.

Reminder Valve don't make single player games any more because you keep buying hats.

>>376774053
Totalbiscuit got thinner huh

>>376774463

It's an ease of use and availability problem.

Between Amazon Prime, Netflix, and Hulu I hardly pirate anything anymore.

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>>376767676

>>376774223
This >>376774426
It's not like there weren't a few people who did actually try to cash in, either, by producing middling-effort mods that they would previously have just released for free, for an entirely unreasonable price. Thankfully as far as I know barely anyone fell for their shit and last I heard on the situation most of them had their standing/reputation within the modding community severely damaged by their own attempts at jewing the community.

>>376774426
If their intent was to do paid mods they shouldn't have simply opened the floodgates; instead they should've only opened up paid mods on new games, so modders knew what they were getting into and existing mods didn't get fucked with.

Paid mods are fine

>>376774426
Literally nobody cared about that, not least of all the posters in this image >>376766598

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>>376766889

>>376773956
That's some illuminati level shit you are selling yourself.

>>376774980
The vast majority of pirating is communist level "I shouldn't have to pay for something" shit.

You're ease of access situation is barely the norm.

>>376776128
You understand Microsoft and Apple have gotten in serious legal hot water for way more convoluted schemes than that right?
Microsoft is the company who were so scared shitless over BeOS that they went around to OEMs and threatened them to only ship Windows or pay full price. That effectively killed Be even though its still in many ways technologically superior to anything else around.
Apple are so afraid that desktop hardware will scale down to challenge their mobile success that they've blocked vendors from offering anything more than the 7 year old OpenGL 4.1, or their mobile graphics API on MacOS.

>>376776332

Except piracy has been going down drastically since platforms such as spotify, netflix, etc. became popular and full of content.

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>>376767676

>>376770675

yeah dude epic keks. i wish we had an upvote point system here on teh chans

>>376767676
I'VE GOT YOU IN MY SIGHTS

I'm glad the "praise le gaben XDD" shit died down.

As his wealth grew, so did his jewdom.

>>376766476
Can people stop with the Anti semitism? I thought you faggots hated trump and pol

>>376767676
M-MASAKA

>>376776332
What?
The vast majority of pirating is "i cant afford to waste money on something frivolous like video games" and not getting completely fucked as a consumer.

>>376777107

haha dude me me as well making epic keks over here

>>376769346
but I stopped playing PC games when Steam came out

>>376767694
It's sad to think of all the people who have died never seeing Half-Life 3.

>>376766284
He made it nig and now he's set for the rest of his life. Of course he's gonna stop giving a fuck after getting rich.

HL3 confirmed for e3, check my trips

>>376766687
This literally
>Steam already picked up steam after HL2
>The IPs Valve has are making money, people are buying CS gloves and DotA shit while he butters his rolls
>Everyone wants HL3 but he doesnt need to do shit as it would just cost $$$
>There's no way HL3 will meet 10y of expectations
>it won't *really* affect the future viability of steam
rats ass given by Gaben: 0

>>376779714
no

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>>376769284
No, dont do that man.

>>376774053
Cuck. Why would anyone have this picture saved.

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Reminder that Gabe has a serial killer sized knife collection in his office.

I bet he has a girl w dragon tattoo style dungeon in his mansion too

>>376774223
>counter strike
>quake mod
It was a mod of half life you nitwit

>>376781032
Do they base the CS:GO knives on his collection?

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>>376766284