So now that Valve is officially dead to us just like Half-L

fuck half life threads lets get 10x more WHAT DID HE MEME BY THIS threads

>valve isn't doing what I want them to do so they're dead to us, bros!
Fuck off to reddit with these "upboat me" threads.

>>388366751
What is valve doing for you, specifically?

>>388366751
to be fair Valve isn't doing anything for anyone other than putting money in their own pockets

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>>388366463
I will repost this every chance I get to spread the word:

Today, I went from an 88 game wishlist on Steam to an 18 game wishlist. I went through my entire wishlist and found the games that existed on gog, the humble store, and on consoles, and got rid of them one by one. For the 18 remaining, I will probably email the indie developers if I can pay them directly with paypal for a steam cd key, and for the non-indie games I will probably purchase them on g2a. If neither of those options exist, I just won't purchase them.

We can get our games without Steam, guys. We can give them the finger. You don't have to give up your current games, and you don't have to delete your Steam account, but you CAN stop all future purchases and you CAN ask your friends and family to do the same.

>>388367091
That's so cute.

Up next, convincing the Internet to start using vid.me instead of youtube.

>>388366846
>>388366865
Not much. I understand that it's a company, though. They obviously chose what ever makes them money.

Like look at this retarded shit >>388367091

>>388367302
>>388367364
You can't create change if you're silent. It's time to let people know the alternatives.

>>388366463
Fuck, I haven't listened to that song in ages. Valve got me into The National which made me start reading Pitchfork which got me to listen to In The Aeroplane Over The See which made me start posting on /mu/ more than /v/. So I guess Portal 2 was good for something I guess.

>>388367481
People probably know the alternative. There are other reasons they don't use them.
Also, it's not your job to that. Advertising is their resposabilty.

>>388367849
But why should they hold onto Steam so strongly? They don't care about what their customers want anymore. Artifact is the strongest proof of that. With L I T E R A L phone games being released these days as a secondary proof. Steam hasn't done shit other than MUH SALES. And you can get just about as good as sales on the Humble Store for at least MOST of your games.

>>388368190
Steam works fine and you don't know what Valve are thinking, you're just memeing. You may not like what they're doing, and even I don't care about it either, but their other shit is still good.
Why would I switch?

>>388366463
Did something happen with Valve recently? Did they de-confirm HL3 or something?

>>388369191
Why wouldn't you? Why do you have to stay with them? I'm not saying delete your account and uninstall your current games, I'm just asking you to consider purchasing from other places from now on.

>>388369483
It was some fanfic by a guy who doesn't even sort at Valve any more.
/v/ with the autism for nothing, per usual.

>people think they can boycott steam
I'll bet there are many games you play that you don't even realize use VAC, or SteamWorks. Good luck with that children.

>>388369483
The main writer for Half Life quit Valve a while back, and recently wrote a blogpost giving the gist of Episode 3's plot.
tl;dr Half Life 2+episodes were pointless because the Combine is just too strong to be defeated
He closed it by saying how Valve has completely changed

>>388369615
I've considered it and decided not to.
Unlike you, I don't have any kind of grudge with Valve and steam works perfectly fine.
Again, why would I switch?

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>>388369483
The writer behind Half Life released the ending of HL3 to the internet realized that Valve will never make it. The last paragraph is a subtle message straight to Valve and Gabe.

>>388369845
Like I said, you don't have to switch, you can purchase from other places, like the Humble Store. They give out Steam Keys after purchasing. If it's an indie game, you could make sure your money goes straight to the developer by asking if you can pay them directly through paypal for a steam key. I just want you to consider the alternatives.

>>388370113
Oh, don't worry, I do.
I'm still gonna buy most shit on steam, unless it benefits me to do otherwise.

>>388370309
Then I have said all I can say.

>>388366463
what's up with all the valve and hl threads going on? someone give me a quick rundown

i miss valve's old intro to their games with the guy with a valve in the back of his head. Now it's just a logo of Valve surrounded by tons of red valves.

>>388370879
half life is dead why the fuck are retards like you expected to be spoonfed

>>388369878
Read >>388371043

>>388367091
uh...why are you doing that, how has valve personally wronged?

I don't get why people give so much attention to someone who doesn't even work at Valve any more.
He obviously doesn't know what they're up to. I'm not saying hl3 is coming or anything, but why would this shit make any difference.

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>>388366463
what is next for valve?

>>388371332
They don't give a shit about what their consumers want anymore. Look at Artifact. Look at the recent phone games on the store now. What has Valve done other than MUH SALES recently? It's time to consider the alternatives

>>388366463
Oh, so only now is Valve dead to people? Not fucking years ago? Now?

Fuck off.

>>388370879
Spoonfeed yourself faggot

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>>388367302
>What is Myspace?

>>388371448
They have been working for a while on sequels for Portal, HL and TF.
They are all going to be released in a box.

>>388371448
VR and Hearthstone competitor.

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>>388371043

>>388371535
They provide a service that makes my life easier. Until the service dips in quality, I will likely still use it. This Half Life stuff is sad, but since there is no game to go wrong, nothing has wronged me.
>muh artifact.
It's not out yet, and I won't play it regardless, so tell me why I should care?

>Now
Try five years ago shit eater.

>>388371043
when they edited their logo so the guy turns around scared the shit out of me the first time i saw it

>>388367481
valve already has your money. deleting the games isnt gonna do shit

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>>388372007
>five years ago
Try again sweetie

>>388371941
>Until the service dips in quality
And when will that exactly be for you?
>It's not out yet, and I won't play it regardless, so tell me why I should care?
Directly from their employee handbook, it states that you only work on a project if you think the customer wants it or it's good for the customer. We both agree that Artifact isn't any of that. They don't give a fuck anymore.

>>388372078
I'm not asking you to delete anything, I'm asking to consider buying from their alternatives. Like gog, the humble store, or even g2a if you don't care about the developer. You could even email that indie developer for that indie game you've been wanting and ask if you could purchase the game straight from them through paypal for a steam key.

>>388371043
tch, gentleman with valve over one of his eye master race, go home nigger with valve behind his head plebian.

RIP Valve. Have fun tricking Russians to buy 500$ virtual knifes.

>>388367364
What's the matter? He's just voting with his wallet. If killing their franchises and promoting microtransactions actually costs them money, their practices will change.

>>388366463
Not for me, to be honest.
I don't give a fuck about HL. Never played it before and I will not play an old game.
I only like Steam as a store but I don't care about Valve as a videogame company. I'm 21 yo and I did't grow up with their games so fuck it.

>>388372143
>when
When the service no longer provides a wide variety of games with a good inrerface for playing games, with a friends system, which everyone already uses all of.

I know the valve makeup and handbook you are referring to, how they make games. In truth, I get where you're coming from, but since I care about the service, and not the quality of games they release as Valve, it actually doesn't matter if Valvee cares or does not care. As long as they host a good service, I couldn't care less.

You're just bearing a grudge and being irrational.

>>388366463
They were always greedy. Do you think Gabe got to 2.2 Billion net worth by being generous? Companies are not your friends. Gabe literally tried to trick some poor kid into coming to the USA by promising him a job so he could arrest him for leaking the HL2 code. And that was over a decade ago.

>>388372713
I am bearing a grudge, but I don't believe I'm being irrational. We don't have to use Steam to get all of our games. I promise you this. If you're fine with their service, fine. But I want people to be fully aware of the alternatives they could be making to send a message to Valve. A message that clearly states "Fuck off."

>>388367091
implying literally anyone anywhere gives a singular shit

>valve doesn't release HL3
>every autist on the internet screeches at valve

>HL3 gets released
>dissapoints due to the literal infinite hype generated throughout the years
>could even be literal perfection
>would still dissapoint
>every autist on the internet screeches even louder

there's no winning move for valve here.

>>388373052
I'm plan on getting the word out regardless. You don't have to get your games from Steam, guys.

>>388373408
install steam inventory helper, it lists the cheapest site where you can get any game anyways and it's usually not on steam. easier than messaging devs directly and all that other shit

Maybe if you fags tried out Valve's current games you would be having more fun

>>388373408
Thanks for sharing. Most people know this, but the convenience of steam is a value that you simply cannot undermine. So HL3 never came. Oh well.

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>>388366751

>Fuck off to reddit with these "upboat me" threads.

Funny considering it's usually redditors who suck Gabe's fat fucking kike cock.

>>388371360
Half Life isn't Half Life without Marc Laidlaw

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>>388366463
>Couple of years or so after the game came out
>Regular at an old computer cafe or what you call it, without the cafe part
>Used to hang out there after class till the place closed down and play HL, Starcraft and Virtua Cop
>Made friends with all the other regulars there and every Saturday we'd occupy all the PCs for the whole day and play Half Life
>Hours upon hours of snacks, HL and fun, favorites were Crossfire and Stalkyard
It was part of me, man

>>388372981
The alternatives are slightly to significantly less convenient, for hardly a cheaper price, you speak for yourself, unfortunately, though I do wish you luck. Things should always be challenged.

>>388372492

>Never played it before and I will not play an old game.


Dude bro totally with you CoD is where it's at brah!

What do you think of the story released yesterday?

Please vote here
http://www.strawpoll.me/13792045

>>388373601
It's still worth spreading the word about. Someone will think it's worth the inconvenience.

>>388371842

>Hearthstone competitor.

I really do hope this TCG turns into a big fucking flop. TCG is already over saturated. Unfortunately it won't do much damage to them considering how TCG is a safe bet to make. Cheap to develop and easy to profit off of. On top of this, Valve already has the assets for most of the game done via Dota2.

Isn't it wonderful that a man who's estimated to be worth 4 billion dollars is such a slimey cheap Jew who cuts corners and only will tackle projects that are low risk high reward?

>>388373696
Whatever kid. Now queue for your next dota/csgo match and we'll tell you who to play with

>>388373706
You may not find it at a cheaper price, but if you would like to give Valve a message, this could be a way to send it.

>>388374070
I doubt it'll flop. But man don't you think your description of Gabe is just a bit childish based on your anger over a dead game series?

>>388373715
WTF? I don't like COD either. I grew up as an Halo kid.

>>388374309
I can't think of a single person who's honestly looking forward to it.

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>>388366463

>When did you realize Valve started turning to the dark side and stopped caring about everything but money?

2009 was the first year where I noticed their Jewry started to fester. The announcement of L4D2 just a year after L4D1 (a game that was literally left for dead). I forgave them since I loved the characters of L4D2 and it was overall a better experience and wished L4D2 was L4D1.

But 2010 was the big year. Microtransactions started to appear.

>>388374309

>But man

New here aren't you? There's plenty to be upset about with Gabe outside of HL.

>>388374617
Was this merely the straw which broke the camel's back then? Why, it was based gaben not even month ago during the summer sale.

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>>388374397

>I grew up as an Halo kid.

That's pretty fucking obvious.

>nu-PCfags are being consumer whores as usual
This is why the modern PC gamer is a fucking joke, they bend over backwards and let themselves get reamed harder than even consolefags do.

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even robin williams was a half life modfag just like us

>In an interview with Zap2It in 2002 he shared the following:

>The mods are taking these games and basically redesigning it and doing it on their own thing. There’s a game called Half-Life and these guys made up a total different take on it using the engine to make a World War II engine called Day of Defeat with Germans and Americans doing kind of like a Normandy beach type thing. But these guys made it on their own and the company basically kind of gave them their blessing.

>Just to reiterate, Robin Williams modded Half-Life to play Day of Defeat. Can you think of anything cooler?

>>388372263
i understand that. i never NEVER pay full price for fucking anything. the developers/pubs get the absolute miniscule amount of money from me.

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>>388374482
Trading in TF2 was the beginning of the end of both TF2 and Valve as a whole.

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>>388374771

>Why, it was based gaben not even month ago during the summer sale.

Months ago? You mean fucking years ago. Valve's been on a constant spiral downward. Popularizing microtransactions, f2p, early access, the worst customer service out there ect ect. Go back to Redbit you nigger.

Also, anybody who uses 'based gaben' unironically needs to have their head examined.

>>388373260
I feel like the writer should've just kept it to himself

>>388374397
>tfw Halo kiddies are old enough to drink now.

Fuck I'm getting old.

>>388375076
Funny, only now do you choose to throw your hissy fit. You bought into the system. You used it, but you didn't get one little thing, and now it's evil.

>>388375137
Why do you feel that way? I'm glad that the writer cared enough to show us what he thought of the remainder of HL.

>>388375137
It's actually pretty nice that the writer was passionate enough about his own project he wanted to give everyone a conclusion.

>>388374821
Do you even know what you're saying?

>>388375210

>U Mad?: The Post

I've made it my goal not to ever purchase an Early Access game, i haven't used microtransactions since 2011 before the Summer in TF2, and most f2p is utter garbage meant to nickle and dime the consumer. No, I've known Valve has been evil for some time, it's only now that I noticed more people are waking up.

>>388375284
Because, like you said, everyone is crying and flipping their shit over it. Although it will probably subside in a month or two. The impact isn't as huge as I thought it would be. But really, Valve did fuck themselves over by not releasing episode 3. They caused this to happen, and if they did release it, a lot of people would still not give a shit and probably would still cry.

>have hundreds of games ready to download at any one time
>massive deals from a million different sources allowing you to buy literal bundles of games for a fucking buck
>or hacked steam clients where you can download all of the games for free if you're a brokefag
>company doesn't release the conclusion to a mediocre game that would dissapoint no matter how good it was
>suddenly everyone throws a hissy fit

remember when NES games cost 70 dollars and had less content than your standard 10 dollar indie game?

Why do people even give a shit about HL3, the story is mediocre at best and the gameplay was great for the time, but nothing that hasn't been done to death by now.

Anyone mind filling me in on why "we" hate Steam now?

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>>388375071
>>388375076
Let me explain why.

>>388375605
What have they done lately to make you love them?

>>388373610
I'll take your word on it since I don't browse Reddit.

>>388373689
I forgot he made the games himself.

>people not understanding how valve is structured
>WAAAAAAAHH MAKE THE GAME I WANT >:((((
>implying people at valve don't just DO WHAT THE FUCK THEY WANT TO
>implying gaben sits at a gold desk pointing his fat fingers saying "MAKE CARD GAME NOW"

fucking retards

>>388366463
Are you dense? The problem with modern Valve isn't that they are greedy, it's that they're complacent and not greedy enough.

>>388375654
I was just playing CK2 on Steam until a few minutes ago. I really like CK2, a lot.

>>388375586

> the story is mediocre at best

That's subjective and on top of that, it was more about the atmosphere that these games produced. Half-Life had an amazing blend of pace, soundtrack ambience, and interactivity on top of a very flexible mod friendly engine (gldsrc more so than Source) HL1 and HL2 were more or less a sandbox for larger communities.

>>388375815
You don't really make what you want at the company. You have an idea of what you'd like to make for the company and you have to convince coworkers that its worth working on it and consider if its a project that a customer actually wants. I honestly can't think why the majority of the company thinks making a Hearthstone clone is what the customers want.

>>388375849

CK2 wasn't creative by Valve.

>Y-yeah but I'm playing it on Steam!

Yeah and I'm using Windows 7. Does that mean I love Microsoft? Fucking no.

>>388375558
I can understand that for sure. The backlash made the writer do some damage control for Valve on his twitter. I don't think steam will suffer at all.

>writers writes small story about what episode 3 would have been
>it answers no questions besides what the borealis would be for
>people wouldve wanted half-life 3 still
the cycle continues

oooh wew... /v/ finally discovered that steam and valve is dogshit...
I play gog games and if the game is not in gog I pirate it

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>>388375654
Not selling the IP to EA for a start. Also getting rid of shovelware and dumb greenlight bullshit.

>>388375849
That's cool, but why does that make you love Valve?

>>388366463
Portal and Portal 2 are and will forever remain my favorite games. I don't give a single shit about what Valve does now . TF2 is a game that i got in a few years ago, and now i have 1000hrs+ in this abandoned game. Valve maybe was once a gr8 company, but what they are doing now... It just breaks my heart to see them take all that they have made, and throw it in the fucking garbage. People change, everyone does, for the better or worse, i just hoped that valve would stay the same.

Maybe one day we will see HL3 and/or Portal 3, no matter what anyone says, i still have that little bit of hope that maybe MAYBE they will see the error in their ways, not listening to the people who made them what they are, and make another Valve single player experience.

>>388376146
Dude, L I T E R A L phone games are starting to come into steam.

>>388376028
what the fuck are you talking about? less than 25% of people working at valve manage dota 2. the whole company doesn't just dedicate large chunks of people to one project because "a manager" says so, valve doesn't have managers.

>>388376042
You can thank them for steamworks, making modding easily available for thousands of games who otherwise wouldn't have it. You can thank them for VAC, which runs on far more games than you can think of. You can thank them for putting PC gaming on life support and saving it.

>>388374936
No one here has done anything.

>>388375071
Both alive and well, 2bh

>>388376279
I didn't say anything about managers though? I said they have to convince their coworkers its worth working on?

>>388376294
>Steamworks
That's what ModDB is for
>VAC
Isn't VAC kind of shit though? Ask any TF2 player.
>Putting PC Gaming on life support
Oh, come on.

>>388376356
then why are you talking about "a majority of the company" like someone is telling everyone what to work on? if people didn't want to make a card game, they wouldn't be developing a card game.

>>388366463
Only PC bros cares about Valve lol
That company did not exist on the console market.

>>388376515
Worker vote with their feet on a project, that's what I meant. If Valve is making a card game, that means someone was able convince enough coworkers that this is what the customer wants/needs

>>388367364
The objective purpose of all companies is to provide me personally with quality goods and services, if they're not going to do that then they can burn in hell for all I care

>>388376585
why would anyone work on a project if they don't enjoy it?

>>388376585
but it's not what I want REEEEEEEEEE

>>388376720
Is it what you want, then?

>>388376715
Supposedly, at Valve, you don't have to, but you gotta work on something.

>>388376538
But Anon... they tried to enter more than once.
But nothing works HL on DC/PS2, HL2 on XBOX and The Orange Box on PS3/X360 were commercial failures.
And average console owner doesn't give shit about Valve.

>>388376501
lots of games wouldn't even have the capability of modding if it weren't for easy steamworks integration

>>388376851
What makes you say that?

>>388376715
leaders and followers anon. Which are you? The leaders convince the followers to work on their projects. The chad dev will always have virgin codemonkeys underneath him to complete projects.

>>388366846

Nothing
He does it for free

>>388376294

>You can thank them for steamworks

So I can thank them for making it mandatory for many mods to having to use Steamworks? You do realize that Steamworks has major flaws right? Because Valve is a company, it has guidelines for what can be put on Steamworks so anything lewd or is based off another work will be taken down. I seen a CIV 5 Shrek nation be taken down because it had fucking Shrek ffs. Also modding communities had fansites filled with mods long (15 years) before Steamsworks. So no, I won't thank Steamworks.

>Making modding easily available for thousands of games who otherwise wouldn't have it.

Because they don't use google? How hard is to type in "Skyrim mods" to find sites like Nexus?

>You can thank them for VAC

Yes, a very out of date and shit anti-cheating program that constantly is one step behind the amount of cheaters that fill TF2 and CS with. You're acting as if anti-cheating software wasn't invented until Valve. Ever heard of Punkbuster (used in Gamespy hosted servers) among others?

>You can thank them for putting PC gaming on life support and saving it.

There's nothing to claim they'd have saved it. Valve got lucky with Steam in terms of digital distribution as they arrived in the gates early in 2003. It wasn't until 2007 that you saw major third party devs put their games on Steam. Had they not, someone else would've come in. GoG for example exists and so does Origin. Whether you hate Origin or not, the point is that as long as a market is uncontested, someone will fill in the void.

>>388377134
>Valve
>Doing anything for free

>>388377263
You realize other websites would be required to take down those mods, for example, shrek, if the company owning shrek filed a complaint right?

>>388376851

>lots of games wouldn't even have the capability of modding

Such as? There are far superior thirdparty tools out there for Skyrim then that of the built-in Steamworks program.

>>388376154
I wouldn't say that I "love Valve", but have they done something that I'm supposed to be angry about? I definitely feel like I'm missing something.

>>388371054
>>388371597
Back to /a/ you go!! You sound like faggots.

You're probably sore losers that get upset when someone around you asks you a question because it triggers your autism. Your life must be sad.

I'm a thinking and logical man. Give me a good reason why SPOONFEEDING is bad.

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>>388376248
Free browser games are on steam, and you PAY to play them

>>388378218
They attempted Paid mods, they made TF2 free to play (which sucks for people who bought it beforehand), they think we want a Hearthstone clone, Steam Greenlight and Early Access? Where have you been?

>>388378350
It created a generation of stuck up pussies who want everything delivered to them and thus don't possess half the abilities their parents and grandparents had.

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>>388378687

>>388378730
>Where have you been?
I've been around, but pretty busy I guess, because I have no idea what you're talking about. What's Steam Greenlight?

>>388378730
Doesn't sound enough to warrant the autism.
It's fine, though. No one is going to stop you from trying to boycott the company or whatever you guys think you're doing.

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>got Half-Life 2 for my birthday a few weeks after launch
>install game
>need to install something called Steam
>Steam won't let me play the game until it's updated
>my parents wouldn't let me use the dialup for more than an hour each night
>takes six weeks to download all the updates before I can play
Thanks gaben

>>388366463
>Corporations
>Not greedy
Nobody starts companies to do people favors, anons.

>>388367805
i had completely forgotten that portal was how i discovered the national. if it even was, i was a complete hipster tool back then.

>>388378350
Because your explanation was literally given several times before you posted. Why don't you quit being a lazy piece of garbage and read the fucking thread?

>>388378928
Do a search

>>388378929
Cool, see you guys tomorrow then

>>388373260
The winning move would've been to release Episode 3 on schedule. Valve blew it by delaying it.This is their own fault.

>>388371928
In VR it looks incredibly creepy.

>>388379406
Yeah, that shit looks agoraphobia tier.

Don't give a shit about HL3, but could someone run down what happened?

>>388380087
Yes

>>388380087
No

>>388380087
>>388369878

>>388380087
maybe

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is anyone else genuinely depressed by this? i haven't felt good for a few days. it felt like reading an obituary, at the same time, i could imagine myself playing it and some cutscenes, things i'll never get to do or see. half-life is permanently attached to my childhood and i became an adult, lived, and will die without seeing or experiencing a genuine outcome to this trilogy.

if the point behind this is to make everyone wait long enough to forget about it, then suddenly one day hl3 is released like we just traveled through time however many amount of years, it'd make artistic sense but it would still be extremely cruel. this game is never coming out. i hate you valve, and fuck you, gabe. you owe tens of millions of people an apology, and if you don't, stop a gaybreathing.

>>388373260

Counterpoint. Why would they give a shit about critical or community acclaim? They'll have mad back their investment on day one with pre-orders, guaranteed.

There's no loss at stake for Valve in releasing or not releasing. They simply don't give a shit about producing anymore, they're rather publish and make bank with little to no effort.

>>388375803

... the man did craft and write the entire series.

Remember what happened to Mass Effect when Karpyshyn was booted out?