LISTEN UP BOYS This is how we are going to bring back old valve

>>388236348
upvoted

>>388236348
You forgot the part where you have to kill dota 2. Good luck with that.

>>388236348
tl;dr
Don't use steam

I'm already doing that

>>388236348
not possible, steam is already at the top. why bother?

Even though I feel HL3 is confirmed dead at the moment, I still have hope for a game release in the future. The fact Duke Nukem Forever got scrapped like 5 times and the company died out and it STILL manages to see a release is still way more far fetched to me than a company with zero financial troubles and a popular franchise in their hands releasing a game eventually. Even Grimoire released. Anything is possible. They could start from scratch on development 5 years later from today, you never know. I feel like the game eventually has to exist. Something has to come out but who knows when. I just hope Laidlaw releasing the plot didn't finally remove all drive from a Valve picking the project up. There's still a lot of shit unexplained by Laidlaw and it'd still be a great ride.

>durr hurr challenging an already established thing
This never works you hopeless rebel.

>>388236637
>>388236717
>trump and brexit

>>388236664
You're delusional.

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>>388236848
yeah and both worked out perfectly

>>388236938
How is it delusional? Would you have called someone stating Duke Nukem Forever or Grimoire will release eventually delusional? I'm not saying it's confirmed to release, I'm simply saying I find it very likely but who knows how long it'll be before they do it.

>>388236348
I don't use Steam and haven't bought a Valve product since Portal 2.

>>388236664

>still in denial

It's like that chick that got kidnapped, raped and then fell in love with her kidnapper.

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You should never have installed Steam in the first place idiot.
I can't believe peoples didn't saw this coming back when HL2 came out.

Even if your pathetic half assed boycott happened now, it wouldn't accomplish anything.
Valve already lost most if not all their competent FPS devs. They lost all the main HL writers last month in fact.

>>388237130
Valve will never make another half life game. Let it go.

>>388237395
It's more of speculation than denial. It find it more likely to release than not. Just because it's been pushed back and even completely cancelled at points doesn't mean it will never exist.

We need to kill off Dota 2 to bring back the old Valve. We have to accomplish this by hyping up the competition and playing up every single flaw present in Dota 2. Make shit up if you have to, as long it helps accomplish the objective to kill Dota 2.

>>388237505
They will at least make products in the same universe, I'm pretty sure they already confirmed one Half-Life product.

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>>388236348
>We are alyx and Gordon throwing the borealis at steam
>It will do literally nothing to stop valve

>>388237415
(You)

Let's say /v/ has 3,000,000 unique posters.
Let's also say that all of them used to purchase these things, but now won't.

That's still a fucking drop in the stream bucket.

>>388237629
Post proof.

>Stop buying cases keys, hats, cosmetics in TF2, CSGO, Or the upcoming cardgame
Yeah, I'm sure all the dudebros and kids who watch crate unboxings and gamble with skins are gonna drop it all for a game they don't even give a shit about

>>388237672
We will just have to spread awareness through social media. Make a big uproar about it, word your messages to make Valve look like the most vile and evil gaming corporation (which isn't even difficult considering Valve's inhuman anti-consumer policies) and do everything to generally crash Valve's public reception.

I think it's hopeless, but we should be doing everything we can to stop this whole retarded hats thing and muh crates.
This shit is completely destroying gaming.
The reason Valve isn't even making games anymore is because people keep buying their hats. TF2, Dota 2 and CS:GO are such large money cows it's insane. Other companies are copying their model.
The only reason they are working on a card game right now is because they want in on that Hearthstone market. They want to sell packs. It has zero to do with any artistic integrity or fun, they're just working on a card game because they saw that in Hearthstone they sell a lot of packs and some cosmetics. Valve's card game will try to outdo them and make even more money by having more shit to sell.
This will continue and this will become more common unless people do something about it.

Never buy crates.
Never buy packs.
Never buy hats.

>>388237505
You could have worked for Valve on HL3 itself with concrete insider information that HL3 was cancelled and even then you'd still have no clue if Half-Life 3 will ever be made. I'm not talking about the scrapped product. I'm saying it's a super popular series and it seems extremely likely they will revisit it in some way in the future and with potential closure.

>muh HL3

wtf I hate valve now because muh dated physics game

>>388237672
>3 gorillion
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH
It's 9000 at best, no way there's actually more

>>388237960
>>388237629
>>388237130
Stop lying to yourself, it'll only make it worse.

>>388238169
Are you denying the holocaust, goy?

>>388237930
Never buy from Steam.
Pirate all Steam exclusive games.

>>388238169
I was being generous on purpose, relax.

>>388238169
What 9000?!

>>388237960
what we received was closure from a disillusioned lead writer that has been with valve since PROSPERO. everybody who cares about HL or worked on HL LEFT. give up, it'd be shit anyway. just read the last paragraph from his closure. it's straight flame leveled at nu-valve, gabe, and the people that may want to make a new HL game.

>I'd rather have my favourite series ruined instead of dead

>>388237786
It was in the conference some people had with Gabe earlier this year.

https://www.google.com/amp/www.eurogamer.net/amp/2017-01-18-gabe-newell-teases-a-new-single-player-ip-in-the-half-life-universe

Here's some random article, I don't feel like scanning through a long video to find the exact part.

>>388238229
The problem isn't Valve selling games on Steam.
The problem is Valve ruining the gaming industry by popularizing and advancing the hat model that is making them millions of dollars per second.
I don't care if Steam has a monopoly on the digital distribution market and they take a 30% cut from the sales. It doesn't matter.

>>388238434
People aren't used to ending on a high not for a beloved franchise. They want something to be hammered into the ground to give people a reason not to care.

Even then there will be people saying "the next one could be great IF..."

Just get one of the Half Life games into the top 10 most played Steam games.

A daunting task, but it might yield interesting results.

>>388238313
I think the only realistic outcome is the very faint possibility that someone might pursue making a hl2 mod based around the ending. Beyond that half life is dead, it's time to lay it to rest.

>>388238479
you're deluded if you think anything valve has ever said. especially regardling half life at this point will ever come true lol

>>388238479
Just because he's teasing at one, doesn't mean that they're working on one or even thinking about it. He's just trying to play nice with shareholders.

Valve has not been a game developer for over 10 years, and they never will be.

>>388238313
You may be right, it very well could be shit. I still believe it will exist one day though and when it does come out I'll give it a try. At that point you will find the next big vaporware game to state will never ever exist.

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>>388236348
You underestimate the power of gambling addiction.

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>>388236348
>buying cosmetics in the first game
if you have ever done this you are responsible for the death of half life

>>388238676
But they are confirmed working on four games right now. How does making four games equate to not making games?

>>388238657
i dont doubt there's already spergs on the source SDK right now revving up that old leaked borealis map trying to figure out how to do the time warp fuckery

>>388238814
Patching and updating =/= game development.

>>388238505
>The problem is Valve ruining the gaming industry by popularizing and advancing the hat model that is making them millions of dollars per second.

?
Let's see, they found a way to make F2P games without P2W and make players/viewers have control over the prize pool of tournaments
What's the issue?

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>>388236348
>Millions of people are still doing this, a small minority of people seeing this thread and actually taking this advice won't do shit
>See above
>See above, again

You can't change anything through a minority, Valve is fucked and so is Steam, you just have to suck it up and deal with it

>>388238479
>It's worth noting that Newell was also replying to a question about a new IP, so it's doubtful he's referring to Half-Life 3. Sorry.
It's time to let go.

>>388238853
And apparently I'm the one who is delusional for saying there's still a chance of HL3 existing. Artifact isnt a patch, it's a game. They have also confirmed three full experience VR titles, not just tech demos. Actual games with some form of length to them, not like the others with 30 minutes of content.

>>388238857
The issue is that they don't care at all about the gameplay part of their games. Valve literally only ever makes hats, hats, hats, hats, hats, hats, hats, hat, hats, and more hats.

>>388237116
>le funny political joke

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>>388238687
the hard part is letting go

>>388239060
valve doesn't even make the hats

>>388239058
Artifact is a carbon copy of Hearthstone. They're literally just retexturing Hearthstone. You can't seriously call that game development.
>VR titles
You can't seriously call "We remade these games, but in VR!" game development. Are you insane?

>>388239060
Don't CS:GO and Dota2 get updates/balance patches though?
I mean sure, they have a hat patch each week but those are just cosmetics

>>388239183
VR is a gimmick in its current state.

>>388237654
Does any more of this pic exist anywhere, anon?

>>388238935
Let what go? My only point with that article is to show Valve is still working on in universe stuff. Just because it's not Half-Life 3 in particular doesn't negate the point I was trying ti make with that article.

>implying i ever started

vote with your wallet they said

>>388239274
Updates and balance patches don't count, we've already established that.

>>388239183
>Artifact is a carbon copy of Hearthstone
They've shown gameplay? I only saw that shitty teaser

>>388239274
csgo gets (((updates))) assfaggots gets actual updates and content that is well thought out and balanced
csgo is valve's red headed step child that is fed table scraps and tf2 is the autistic gremlin locked in the basement nobody talks about

>>388239183
>Artifact is a carbon copy of Hearthstone.

Do you have anything to back that up?

>>388236348

You have my sword, OP!

https://youtu.be/97EtqEejCxI

Do you like

>>388239373
>>388239434
It's a Hearthstone clone. You don't even have to see any gameplay of it to know that.

>>388239183
Hearthstone has laning, creeps, and controlling 5 heroes positioning and attacks? I'm pretty sure it's not Hearthstone. I don't even like TCG and CCG but that is one of the most retarded comments I've seen all day.

>>388238857
The problem is no games.
Valve used to make games. All companies used to make games. Now many companies are trying to copy Valve and just put out something that preys on cashcows.
The whole industry is going that way. The hats are not that much different from season passes and DLC.
In the past the goal of companies was to make a game and sell as many units of the game as they can, so the game had to be good. That is changing now as more and more companies are less concerned with putting out games regularly that are good enough to sell well, but they're more concerned with putting out one game and milking it to death.
In the past the game was the product. Company A makes game called B and sells 6 million units, great, company A goes to work on their next game. Now the game is just a front for the real product which is cosmetics and DLC.

the only thing that could get HL3 to get made by this point is an outright act of terrorism

I am going to boycott Valve. I disapprove of this company's direction. As a consumer I have that right.

>>388239361
>>388239382
>game updates don't count
Why?

To be fair, CS players don't like change.

>>388239496
Stop talking out of your ass then.
No reason to give a shit about artifact yet

>>388239292
I dont have a source, sorry.

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>>388239608

Just buy your shit from G2A or Greenman Gaming to spite Valve for this betrayal.

>>388239817
Just playing on Steam is helping Valve. You become a statistic that they can use for marketing. Buy all games you can from GOG and other DRM free providers and if you need to use Steam, use it in offline mode only.

>>388236348
>Okay guys, here's the plan.
>Stop doing things I don't like.

epic

>>388239664
Good luck with that.
Companys pulling off worse shit get away with it

>>388240175
Nobody can do worse than Valve.

>>388239183
Stop talking out of your ass, retard.
Obviously they're trying to bank on the Hearthstone craze, but Artifact isn't going to be a Hearthstone copy. It's going to have ''lanes'' and all sorts of stupid shit taken from Dota 2.

>>388239805
cs players would be more receptive to change if it went through the proper channels that the csgo dev team doesnt even try.

>see: the m4a1s being the defacto best gun when it came out, the cz replacing the p250 slot, the pocket scout deagle update, the revolver destroying the game for a couple days, nerfing the awp movement because of a particular playstyle that was only possible because of skill

all of the above could have been avoided if they just simply talked to pros or had a fucking beta. also AFAIK during csgo's beta there was a private pro forum where pros would actively discuss the game and valve straight up ignored it or some shit and made a lot of 1.6 pros really disillusioned with the game but it was a CGS type deal where the money was in go so people played it anyway.

as for

>game updates dont count

because its mostly maintenance and they don't add a heap of new content every couple of updates. for go it's community made maps and weapon skins every once in a blue moon, for doto its community made cosmetics at a rate im not familiar with so i wont comment.
tl;dr laziness at maximum efficiency

>>388240456
Valve sued smaller devs/publishers just so they can't make games, get in their way every opportunity, milk them dry after finally buying them out and closing them down afterwards?

>>388240767
Valve probably does that shit in private, given how evil, remorseless and soulless they are.

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>>388241041
Just stop it.
We would have it much worse with EA or Ubisoft in control.

I don't even understand what's so bad about Steam, most games don't require it to start
Anymore

>>388241350
See, the difference between Valve and these two is that at least EA and Ubisoft would make video games. Valve haven't been making games for a long time. The Hearthstone clone don't count.

>>388236348
>Stop buying cases keys, hats, cosmetics in TF2, CSGO, Or the upcoming cardgame
Never did.
>Dont use the steam community market
Never did.
>Try and buy the games from different platforms
IF the game I want to buy is on other platform, I always did buy it elswhere. Basically, I only have Dark Souls trilogy on my steam...

>>388241676
Jilat lubeng jubo ak dulu woi

daily reminder that half life was always a mid-tier first person shooter

>>388241676
So as long as they make games anything else they do, isn't as bad?
No matter how good or bad the games are?

Shit, EA even sells "updates" as new versions.
Ubisoft sabotages every new M&M project themselve

>>388242064
I believe this.

>>388242064
Completely untrue. Half life 1/2 was and will always be near perfect shooters

>>388242112
And that's preferable to Valve's downright abominable business model.

The only people who buy skins and other cosmetics in valve games are 13 year old boys that watch youtubers that open cases. These fucking shit kids are ruining the gaming industry

>don't use steam community market
excuse me? I have over $500 worth of CS:GO items that I got in drops or free and I'm about to sell them.

fuck off.

>>388243358
Sell them using an external website so you get actual cash. Fuck Valve.

>>388243358
>$500
>in steambux
lol

>>388243752

how exactly is having a free $500 (before steam tax and steam fees) bad?

that means I can buy all the new FOTMs /v/ shills for at least a good year.

>>388236348
Good luck getting millions of people to do that

>>388242264
Are you serious or just that salty?

>>388244026
having store credit is worse than just having money

One thing, how the flying fuck are we gonna convince the little slav shits to stop?

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/v/ is so dumb
https://twitter.com/marc_laidlaw/status/900960760481726464

>>388237926
I've been on 4chan for 10 years and this is the saddest post I've ever read.

>>388244354
The dumb one here is you

>>388244354
You're a dumb valveshill and you know it.

>>388239292
It's not porn, it's the cover from a fan fiction some guy wrote.

>>388236348
>>Try and buy the games from different platforms
This will never happen. There are enough cretins out there that refuse to buy games from anywhere but steam

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>>388238479
Can't wait for the Half Life trading card game.

>>388245795
Hell yeah my man. That shit will be lit.