Remember when we worshiped this guy? What was the turning

>>377143019
Pretty much when they stopped producing games and never bothered fixing Steam.

>>377143019
When TF2 started releasing hats.

>>377143151
fpbp

>>377143019
>we
Speak for yourself kiddo

>>377143151
fpbp

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>>377143019
>we

>>377143019
When it went mainstream,

Felt the normies take the meme when he walked on stage when Half Life 2 won greatest game of all time during that awards show.

I still worship him.
He's the reason I have a job. although Id worship hm anyway

The attempt at paid mods.

>>377143019
When he stopped making any games at all. And when he and all his cronies went turbo bitch pussy mode whenever Half-Life 3 was mentioned.

>sweating profusely
>"We...uhhhhhh....have...n-n-nothing to say about Half-Life."
>looks around nervously

They are one of the most boring game developers now.

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/v/ of 5 years ago is completely different. Its not all liberal leftist cocksuckers here now. Just look at all the threads:

>fucking cartoon (manga?) games
>asian rpg games where all you do is choose texts
>bashing on good games just because they are popular
>retards still buying handheld """consoles"""

Literally 90% of all threads arent even video game related. Even when they are video game related they are about bashing some game or a "does /v/ approve of said game" thread.

Pic related, your average /v/ poster

>>377143151
/thread

>>377143019
>What was the turning point for you?
The entire shitstorm that was his damage control AMA on paid mods

>>377144070
>"actually money is how the community steers work"
>thousands of downvotes

Gotta hand it to him for pissing even goddamn Reddit off

>>377143019
I don't.
Valve's biggest success is Counter Strike Source, which is a newer version of a mod.

>>377143019
the phone number shit is honestly the most irritating fucking garbage.

-crates
-keys
-hats
-poor servers
-no Brazilian/Chinese servers to remove cancer off queue
-cards
-paid emoticons
-paid wallpapers
-no new game in years
-no half life 3 ever
-25% share to content creators instead of 75% it at least 50
-paid mods

Pick any.

>>377143151

A damn shame too

Said and did all the right things and just fell hard

He still has a chance though, we all make mistakes

>>377144481
>-crates
>-keys
>-hats
>-paid emoticons
>-paid wallpapers
Let's be honest here, I'd do the same. If you have a community of mouthbreathers willing to pay up, you'd be a fool not to exploit them

>>377144314
I disagree, nowadays CSGO is way bigger than what CSS could have imagined.

Portal is Valve's most successful work overall, though. It's been almost a decade and people on /v/ are STILL arguing about portal physics.

I'm a fucking baby and stopped jerking gaben off once I couldn't find any games I wanted from steam sales. Used to make out like a bandit, but now the games I want seem to only be 10% off.

>>377144861
I'm not talking about popularity.
And Portal did nothing but spam a fuckload of cancerous reddit memes, just like TF2.

>>377144271
He doesn't care about the modders getting paid though he just how big the modding community was and he wanted to monetize it

>>377143019
Paid mods, the way Dota 2's development was handled (took YEARS just to port all the original heroes yet took no time at all to shove the game full of thousands of cosmetics, many of which are Valve-made), early access, and the sheer fact that Valve doesn't make single-player games anymore.

>>377143019
I just spent 200 dollars on his compendium

>>377143019
When they fucked up everyones traiding retards and children who still manage to get scammed by russians on throwaway accounts.

>we

Just outted you fucking shitter

>>377143173

the first wave or two of hats were cool, they fit the characters, fit the art style, fit the '''''''''lore'''''''' but then it just got fucking stupid. they even hired a psychologist to come up with a way to get people to spend more money in the store which is where it all started.
theyre doing the same to dota 2 now, lately the cosmetics are absolutely ridiculous and dont fit anything in the actual game.

30% CUT
%
C
U
T

>>377143850
I'd have a hard time resisting buying some of those sailor moon figurines

>>377143019
I never had a turning point. Valve not really making games anymore sucks, but because of Steam PC gaming was completely revitalized and now we have gazillions more games than we ever would have without it.

I mean, I know people LOVE to bitch, but without Steam the PC market would be magnitudes smaller and with an incredibly less diverse annual library, so yes, while I miss the bi-annual Valve game, in it's place I have many many more, so I feel like it's a good tradeoff.

>>377145665
But Valve isn't the only ones that do this. They're staying competitive by following the industry standard.

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>>377143019

remember when sony profits were failing and they payed polygon a mere 20 thosand dollars to write an article bashing steam, that literally no one gives a fuck about?

its funny how no one gives a fuck about sony anymore too

>>377143151
What's wrong with Steam?

>>377144956
the developers set the sale percentage, not valve. although the 30% cut tends to make developers more stingy then theyre suppose to be.

>>377143019
he doesn't make games anymore

>>377146098
its not xbox live

>>377143019
I never worshipped him

>>377143151
At some point they just started doing everything wrong.

>>377143019
If they still made games I would still worship them. A new Left 4 Dead, Half Life, Team Fortress, or entirely new IP from Valve would be great, but they've gotten too comfortable with the steady flow of income from steam to bother creating new games anymore. They have gone from a game development company to becoming a game platform for other developers.

>>377145932
Its still bullshit. Its one of the reasons why we have clients like Origin, Uplay, etc. No one wants to give up 30% earnings.

no, only pcmr worshiped him

>>377143019
dota 2 updates and paid mods for skyrim (we are doing this for you!) was the final hit.

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>>377143019
Remember when we hated this cuck before reddit invaded and people worshiped him?


I'm still mad I have to install that shit to play most PC games

>we

Nice meme. At the end of the day he's a corporate jew. Worshiping corporate jews is something no one should do

>>377143850
Man I thought my books a million was shit

Why's half that store toys and DVD's, all I remember wasting space was usually a coffee shop or a fuckton of magazines

>>377143019
>stopped making games
>flooded all their games with microtransactions and marketplace faggot shit
>opening the floodgates to thousands of godawful games on steam (greenlight, early access)
>paid mods

>>377149005
no

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>>377144481
>paid emoticons
>paids wallpapers
>cards
All optional m9
inb4 hurr durr b-but i want my profile to look shiny tehehe xd
die

>>377150613
not to mention cards are free drops and you can sell them to buy actual games. people are literally complaining about free money

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>>377143019
tf2 went f2p
i remember this moment like it was yesterday
>turned on my pc
>open steam
>update window pops up
>'tf2 is now free to play guyz'
>'also buy weaboo sim for soldier katana'
>delete game content
And i was done. I also remember there was a thread on /v/ from guy who bought tf2 just day earlier and.

>>377143019
Paid mods, after that it became obvious he was a fat fucking jew.

>>377146098
It's not Uplay

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>>377144861
That is because Bfags are kidding themselves

>>377143850
>started going on 4chan in 2005
>leave /v/ around 2012-2013 because real life and got bored
>came back literally last week and been lurking since
>it's literally the same shit as 2012, almost same jokes as well
>same "videogames are shit" and "neo-/v/ is crap" threads

sasuga

>>377143019
When they stopped doing games

and they tried charging for mods

also when they killed TF2 with microtransactions

The tipping point for me was when Steam sales became an ordinary thing with literally no originality at all.

We used to have challenges, fun times, achievements for steam sales, minigames, hidden trivia, daily deals ("super" sales), etc

Nowadays what we get is a bunch of discounted games (that are usually on sale throughout the whole year anyway), the most interesting games are only at 20-30% off, and there's no super sales anymore. Remember the excitement of waiting every day for the clock to turn over and get new sales? Remember saving up for the final day for the most popular resales to buy those games that you might have missed in the previous days?

That shit doesn't exist anymore. Now all games are discounted once during the sale and that's it. You get new "front page" deals every day but those aren't discounted further, no, they are simply advertised.

And the most you get usually is just a shitty comic with shitty art and a bunch of summer/winter trading cards for a badge. No more minigames. No more treasure hunts. No more achievements to complete in some games to unlock further minigames. Nope. Fuck you gaben.

>>377155849
>wanting to wait more days for a deeper sale instead of getting the sale upfront

you are a retard

>>377143019
He is still pretty great, his latest actions to support devs and punish the devs that attack the users is just what we need. They are trying so hard to clean up in the mess thai is steam.

>>377155965
You're not getting a "deeper" sale now, you just get the same face value sale throughout the whole week timespan. It's just shit all around.

>>377155849
this

>>377145605
The best part is that there was no need to ruin their games with this bullshit. They get 30% of each sale in their store for doing nothing but hosting which is an astronomical number considering that pretty much every PC game is posted on the store. It's purely so they can buy afford a smaller yacht that floats in the swimming pool of a bigger yacht.

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>>377146098
>What's wrong with Steam?
I know right. I mean just look at their awesome customer support! that fat fuck gaben could have at least hired some fucking poo in the loos, but he doesn't even spend the pennies it costs to do just that

>>377143019
Never worship him once. I had to use his service because fucking games now runs on steam platform.

I miss retail non-steam games. The last boxed non-steam game i own is UT3 black and Crysis collection. I will soon go with GoG full fledge without stop like i should be day 1.

>>377143173
how shitty the updates started becoming with community created hats, then EOTL happened, and then paid mods were the final nail in the coffin that was valve for me

>>377149005
It was /v/ that got everyone worshipping the fat fuck in the first place. Reddit just copies whatever the hell 4chan does.

>>377155318
>also when they killed TF2 with microtransactions
was there any retail game before pre-f2p tf2 that had microtransactions? there are many cancerous trends in the industry that valve in one way or another played a part in bringing to fruition

>>377157258
This but now /v/ copies reddit. The cycle of shiteating never ends.

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>>377143019
I still like him. Steam is pretty great all things considered. I never really cared about half life and valve games are micro-transaction cancer except Portal so I'm happy if they don't make any more games and just get rich off Steam.

I worry that they'll eventually fuck up Steam though. Like how YouTube is currently fucking over all their content producers.

>>377155140
this.
I actually believe we are the only 2 guys left

>>377157389
>but now /v/ copies reddit
Nah. Faggots from reddit just spill over to /v/ more often then before.

>>377157309
I'm pretty sure Bethesda are the ones that started it with the horse armor in oblivion.

>>377143019
When the real sales stopped happening. I don't remember the last time a decent game went on sale for more than 75% off. Plus, there's mountains for garbage to browse through now which are artificially increasing the value of non-shit games.

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>>377157781
>same company in part responsible with the paid mods shit
it's like a match made in hell

>>377157649
I remember thinking how would 4chan end and how I would break the circle.

And here I am, one of the last few survivors from an ancient era. How was the end you ask? I did not notice, 4chan was dead when it started

We just grew comfortable, anon... ;_;

Valve is doing a lot of things wrong and they're still the best gaming company out there pretty much. I'm just scared what happens to Steam and Valve when Gabe dies or resignes or whatever. I don't buy much stuff on Steam because I'm paranoid about the future

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>>377157914
>>same company in part responsible with the paid mods shit

My god, you're right.

>>377157953
What are your alternatives, though? Re-buying decade old games on GOG? And if you want to play online, your game will be linked to a service just like Steam, be it Uplay, PSN, Battlenet, and so on.

>>377156750
You either get something good or nothing at all.

>>377143019
paid mods killed everyone's last faith in valve

>>377158343
I know, I hate everything with these services, licences. DRM etc... I use GOG when I can and pirate some stuff as well

>>377157914
>>377158189
I'm not entirely opposed to the idea of paid mods, but I doubt there's a good way to do it. I respect that some people would like to make money from modding, and if we had people who could mod full time like how some people are full time youtubers I think we'd all benefit to some extent.

But they way they tried to do it was bullshit.

I would like some sort of system where big mods like Enderal could be sold. But I don't want stupid weapon packs or fishing mods at $5 a piece.

>>377149005
>I'm still mad I have to install that shit to play most PC games
yeah, because you surely would want to patch games manually and download digital games in .parts

>>377159115
The thing about paid mods is that it's essentially a micro-transaction. But this time less regulated and more shit filled.

>>377159115
most full time youtubers are trash though

>>377143019
cosmetics/market

>>377159145

Back when you weren't born, games got tested and never needed patching. The first abysmal release I remember is Gothic 3, which was what, 2006?

>>377143019
When steam sales became wank

>>377143019
Still am, not turning point.

You couldn't even keep faithful to a religion, heretic.

>>377143019
When he started doing nothing

I always thought he was a fuckin fraud

Half Life 1 is overrated as fucking shit

Half Life 2 was a good tech demo for its time

TF2 stopped being good when hats were added

Half Life 3 is going to happen someday, it's going to be about identically as 'good' and full of stupid filler as Half Life 2 except the autistic Half Life fanbase is going to treat it as a gift from God and forgive all of Valve for spending twenty fucking years dicking around and doing nothing

>>377143019
>hen we worshiped this guy
Never ever fell for his shenanigans.

>>377159495
LOL, yeah right. Ultima 8 was broken and had to get patched on fucking floppy discs which were sent to your home address. This has always been happening

Why the fuck would I care about Valve when all the steam sales suck? It's not like they make games.

>Hurrr you already own everything

Bullshit. You can use price-tracking websites to see shit like fallout new vegas complete edition used to go on sale for $4.99 back in like 2012-2013 and now it only ever gets down to $10'ish.

I should never see 10%-15% off featured on the front page of a holiday sale.

>>377146098
Used to be lightning fast actually had a nice server browser and everything.

It's shit and bloated as fuck now.

>>377143173
I still thought it was funny when whoever gave him the birthday card from /v/ made him buy a key to open his birthday present crate

He doesn't deserve 30% of my customers' money.

>>377158743
>everyone's
Looking at >>377140234, there are plenty of Steamtards left.

>>377143850
>t. wasn't on /v/ 5 years ago

>>377160031
the source for that claim was Phil Fish

>>377143019
Once the Dota 2 jewery started getting out of hand.
This year's compendium actually having playable content you need to buy into was the nail in the coffin

>>377160220

Everyone knows 30% is what they take. Hardly a "claim".

>>377159897
>try to open link in new window
>it's a blank fucking page that never loads
>hasn't been fixed since the day I started using this piece of shit
How the fuck do they get away with this.

>>377160253
Yeah, some of this Dota 2 shit is insane. How much money would it take for someone to get all the cosmetics, skins, voiceovers, maps etc? There are literally thousands of items you can buy and they keep adding more

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>>377143019
paid mods!

>>377143019
I still thought they were a pretty decent company up until the whole Paid Mods thing. Gayben really showed his true colors there.

Also, does Gayben actually make any decisions in the company or is he just a PR guy?

>>377143151
>thread

time to sage, nothing else need be said here.

>>377144756
exactly, there is nothing wrong with charging people for useless shit. the fuck tards will fund other projects and make them cheaper for the rest of us. asethic crap is fine. Dlc and pay to win is different story, which steam so far doesn't do.

Left 4 Dead 2 made it clear they didn't care about making games at all.

>>377143019
No I don't because I'm not an American who wants to worship every celebrity they see.

>>377143019
Steam claimed there was fraudulent activity on my account and had me reset all my info. Which I did, but after that my Trails In The Sky SC was gone even though I was halfway through it. I didn't get a refund and Steam support has been ducking me for months

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>>377157950
Yeah, it was. 04-07 were the best years even though it was already dying for me. I even made some OC back in the days that nobody would believe me. Nowadays it doesn't even matter because everything is a "meme" now.
I still blame facebook and apple for everything.

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>>377143019

even though I never really played or like TF2, the mann co. update was a pretty obvious redflag, but what sealed it was the obvious jew scam the "release portal 2 early" scheme they pulled

Which literally didn't end up being early at all except for a few hours earlier for anyone not on the east coast. The most obvious scam aspect of it was how they was no transparency or proper explanation either beforehand, during, or after of when the "boosting" potatoes would kick in, which would be absolutely critical in proving if it was indeed rigged or not. But the fact they didn't allow for revealing the rules is the smoking gun that should be evidence enough.

Although there were a buncha autists that very closely monitored and calculated the inconsistent "effects" of number of people playing mechanic and how insistent they were not just between games but also the same game at different times and then suddenly speed up in effect as drawing closer to the original portal 2 release time (and even before the boosting potato thing kicked in). Which again, if the point of the potatoes was to be an "extra boost" to help release the game even earlier and faster, why didn't they kick in sooner? Answer: rigged from the start.

>>377159115
the problem with paid mods is it just ruins what is otherwise a community thing based on love for the game. because then everyone gets greedy and wants to make money off of mods.

it's just like how youtube became shit. because it went from being a hobby, to people trying to get famous and make a profit off of it

>>377157649
>>377157950
Better make that three, anons. Late 2005 reporting in.

>>377143019
I never liked Half Life, but I've always liked Gabe. Still like him.

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>>377159115
>t. I respect that some people would like to make money from modding, and if we had people who could mod full time like how some people are full time youtubers I think we'd all benefit to some extent.
if their mods are actually worth money they should talk with the developer for the game they're modding and come to some sort of agreement

worked for the AoE 2 expansion for example

>>377143019
I will forever be angry at this man until he allows me to play video games without broadcasting that I'm playing video games.

>>377159115
I think Firaxis handled this pretty well by paying the Long War modders to themselves. The mods of course remained free for the players.

paid mods

>>377166116
you can play games without signing into friends

>>377151132
i always forget tf2 is f2p :_:

>>377143019
It was literally always an ironic meme.

>>377160031
yes he does. if you dont think steam deserves a cut, then sell your game outside steam

>>377143019
Yeah, because of him and the steam I had to pirate games

WHERE4S HALF LIFE 3?

>>377143019
when he became fat

>>377160623
The fucking web helper application is a disgrace

>>377144481
>>377150613
>>377150729
I would complain about free money if I could ever get it
>need a mobile authenticator and don't have a smartphone, don't need one, don't need a phone in general
>some cards wont drop at all
>you also need to get trading cards to fucking have more friends
also did anyone else forget the fucking steam inventory getting rid of games as gifts?

>>377143019
>green light
>early access

That's all. Keys never really affected me as I only play csgo casually and don't care bout skins. The change you get from boxes adds up over time tho.

>>377143019
I still think he's a pretty cool dude.

>>377143019
I think Valve is a pretty cool guy. Eh sells games cheap and doesn't afraid of anything.

When I realized they are digital GameStop. Just as bad as GameStop with all the negatives of not being physical.

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>>377143019
The gaben greentext will never not be funny for me.
I still cherish the the times where /v/ loved him due to how much funny shit it spawned.

People always point to the Hats in TF2, but that was miles better than what CSGO skins ended up doing that eventually bled into TF2.

But the true downfall was fucking Dota 2. It killed the Valve we knew and loved. It's literally all the care about now. Even the great sales aren't as fun as they used to be.

>>377146098

indies

>>377170117
>But the true downfall was fucking Dota 2
Maybe, but the final nail was the whole paid modding fiasco.

>>377171714
At least he reverted that. I was seriously under the impression they were going with the old "tough shit" scenario.

>>377172781
It probably wasn't even his decision. For all we know the fat faggot would have done so. It was probably Bethesda looking out for their brand and not Gaben looking out for Steam.

>>377143019
I never cared for that fat jew but brainwashed americans (the average /v/ user) used to love him for fake steam sales