honest thoughts on this man?

fat neckbeard

I sometimes wonder what would happen when he dies. It'll be soon I think.

steam is a good service, he's alright

>>388633498
He's no hero
He's no villain
Steam isn't evil
Steam isn't good
Valve is a business

saved and destroyed vidya james

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>>388633621
>steam is a good service

biggest anime betrayal

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lived long e

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>>388633498
corrupted by money like all of us

If majority of customers wants hats, they'll get the hats

jew

>>388634128
In what point of time this guy could be considered a hero? Shit image.

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>>388633498
evil

>>388633498
Gaben weighs heavy on my mind.

>>388634339
similarly to this if the majority of his employees just want to make said hats, then he seems content with that too.

>>388633498

A decent guy with the chance of being a litteral god in the gaming world but became evil and turned into a devil.

Also, the people at Valve became lazy fucks and cowards for not stepping up to the challenge of actualy concluding Half Life 2's story with Ep3.

>>388633893
What is wrong with it then?

>>388633498
A good man that was overtaken by greed and ended up becoming lazy.

He's a dude that runs a business

>>388633498
Was responsible for a bunch of great games before he realised he could make more money peddling virtual hats

The man who sold the world

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A great guy who revolutionised the gaming industry, the only true guy who is owner of the best gaming company ever existed, all of his games are top selling high rated games, he brought the gaming community together via steam, helped with indie developers getting big, made esports as it is today, when no one gave a fuck about it, and saved PC gaming.

Just a fucking great guy all around.

>>388633498
>man
>G-man
>Gaben-man

A guy who decided to prioritize money over making more games. In a way I can't blame him because I think many people would do the same thing if they were in his position.

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>>388637578
>Selling movies in his platform

Please.

He betrayed us

>>388634128
I hate this proverb so much its the most obvious shit why is it seen as profound

>>388633498
Absolute power corrupts absolutely

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BASED

>>388638519
Can you actually turn Jewish if you are greedy and cunning enough? Wouæd they accept you?

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>>388638519
Is it true? I dont own any of my games?

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>>388638880
>>388638753
>he thinks HE ownes his games
AY DIOS MIO!!

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post S to spit

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>>388639225
S

>>388633498
Seemed to fight for a better PC gaming scene, then decided he wanted more bags of Lay's and became a greedy fuck.

The End

>>388633498
Great businessman
Used to be a great game developer

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Fuck nuSteam

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>>388640074
Yo its me BASED Gabe N - cool, nihlistic and a wicked sense of humour!

>>388633498
I heard that you can no longer trade games on steam. Is this true?

>>388633498
FUCK GABEN HE KILLED HALF LIFE 2
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
EVEN AFTER ALL THE MONEY I GAVE HIM REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>388642023
you cant anymore, dotn think you can get them in your inventory anymore too, but if you already have them they get to stay there

>>388633498
IT WAS WORTH THE WEIGHT

>>388643083
why did this happen?

>>388643715
no idea, probably something to do with russians i think, or people buying CSGO on sale and keeping it in their inventory then giving it to themselves when they get VAC banned

Smart guy but his praised working code at Valve of only working on a project as long as the team is interested in it does not seem like a practicable idea in many cases

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>>388633498
I never liked him.
He didn't save PC gaming, he lowered the bar entry so any fucking casual can get a Steam account and try to run shit on their fucking toasters.

>>388635847
It's not a good service.

He helped PC gaming during a crucial time but he only did it for personal gain like everyone else. Valve is no different from Microsoft, Sony or Nintendo.

Fat faggot who used to matter

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I remember when was he praised to demi-god status here during 2008-2011 or so, and all I felt was "man, I'm out of touch with this board". Glad to see people jumped off the stupid meme bandwagon, though.

>>388646267
PC gaming was fine, faggot, it wasn't loitered with casuals like consoles are.

Now any faggot can get a good rif more easy and become a "lol whats up guys faggotlord here xD" YouTuber.

>>388633498
A once passionate man before he lost his soul and became a husk.

>>388646574
Steam is the reason PC gets so many games that would otherwise be console only. They managed to attract a lot of console players to PC.

>>388633498
He had noble intentions when he allowed Valve employees to do what they want but the lack of structure is what really led to Valve no longer making games.

I'm also curious as to the details behind the cliques within Valve that formed and decided as a majority to fire a bunch of people just because they didn't like them. Even if they were dicks that just screams hostile workplace where you can't risk going against the grain because you don't have a real boss or a real HR department to tell people to fuck off or deal with their petty grievances in a normal manner; instead you risk being ostracized and fired without cause.

>>388646815
>They managed to attract a lot of console players to PC.
And that's how you ruin something that didn't need saving.
It's like how consoles got ruined once casuals and their dudebros got their sticky fingers on videogames with the PS2 and ESPECIALLY the 360.

An icon of gaming once, a grubby online merchant nowadays.

Truly a fall from grace.

he seems to not really care, as long as whatever they do is profitable. Unless it causes people to bitch about it, which makes him go to reddit and do an AMA. Seems to happen every 6 months to 1 year.

>>388633498
I remember hearing him talk long ago. I recall him saying many great things, such as player created content being the future. I agreed entirely, remembering how players would create their own games within games like starcraft custom maps, etc.

But I misunderstood. He meant making hats and Dota cosmetics so that Valve can pocket from it. Turns out he meant from a standpoint of making money, not improving the quality of games and communities within them. Still a good businessman.

what's a better steam replacement?

>>388647640
>Whenever he does an AMA the reddit mods always push the users not to ask about HL2e3/HL3
I fucking hate reddit.

>>388648186
PS4

>>388648186
There isn't one. Some people say GoG, but their range of releases is limited and a lot of stuff gets pirated. Other online shops are spyware for companies that release them.

>>388633498
He is a good man but coward and lazy

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/v/ 2004-2010: called him fat
/v/ 2010-2013: praised him
/v/ 2013-present: calls him a fat jew
What's next for his career?

>>388646172
In what way is steam not a good service?

>>388648490
you know you can pirate the games on steam too right?

>>388638249
You're right! You can only rent those movies for like a week before they are removed from your library.

>>388633498
Great businessman, I unironically admire him

>>388638880
In 2012 the user agreement was updated in that you only pay to play the games from steam and none of it you actually own.

>>388643715
people buying russian copies for cheap

Snowdogs.

Faggot shit.

Cleveland steambox.

>>388633498
No longer video games

>>>/g/
>>>/biz/

>>388637728
You are man
He's not man

>>388633498
subhuman lardass kike maggot advisor

Love him for saving PC gaming. And yes, he did.
Hate him for making it a gold mine for jews

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he has great cock i would suck it

>>388649835
>Love him for saving PC gaming
He saved nothing, jackass, PC gaming was fine.
Hell, I'd ague it was better, because you could buy physical games and actually OWN your games.

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>>388650340
>PC gaming was fine.

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>>388650241
he's a big guy.

>>388633498
A piece of shit, I hope people always remember paid mods. Gabe and Bethesda should never be trusted again.

>>388650340

>PC gaming was fine

lolno

>>388650607
>>388651737
>Go to store
>Check games for PC
>Buy game, go home, install game
>Keep disc safe for future installations
>Play game

>>388652203
>Go to store
>Check games for PC
>Buy game, go home, install game
>have to register to GFWL
>takes 5 minutes to connect to GFWL
>Play game
>game crashes because GFWL stopped working

a true blue microsoft employee through and through.
Once at MS always at MS

>>388653546
>GameCopyWorld.com

>>388653873
It's 2017 and why aren't you buying games from GOG.COM?

>>388653954
>Implying I'm not
>Implying GOG isn't clearly better than Steam
>Implying like it's 2011

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he let me down

>Every game he puts out is great
>Made 2 of the best gaming engines to exist
>Made the most convenient PC gaming platform that has frequent deals and also doubles as a social app to allow the user to make friends/review titles/discuss vidya
>Great employer to work for
>Constantly innovating with VR/Source 2/etc.
He is great. Nu-/v/ likes to nay say him now since he inadvertently created a 12 year old gambling market in CS:GO and didn't sell you a 2 hour expansion to Half Life 2 for $40.

>>388633498
Real life Anakin Skywalker.

>>388654282
>Spot the paid shill
Tell me more about him as your employer and how much dick you must suck.

You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

I wish I made as much money as this guy

le Based Gaben never existed.

>>388654915
If the price is being as fat as him, I rather stay as I am.

>>388654508
>Everyone who disagrees with me is a shill
every game he's put out was genuinely great and i have no qualms with steam.

>>388655447
Yeah, how's Half Life 3?
Oh wait. Enjoying that cardgame m8?

>>388648232
Everyone does.

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>>388633498
a fat man who did what he had to.

>>388648658
It does not posses the qualities that service required to be considered a good one.

>>388655719
Funny, considering the large ammount of Redditors in this board.

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>>388655813
MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT

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He's like Hitler in the beginning he was a genius but at the end he went mad.

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>>388655828
Perhaps you could pontificate as to why you feel that the services rendered by Steam do not fulfill the requirements to please your sense of adequacy?

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It's not the sort of hurt that you feel right away, not all of it anyway. It's the kind that lingers in your mind like a thorn, the sort that holds back a smile, even if you've long ago forgotten why.
When I'm old and withered and sit on the park bench wondering why the cracks in the path seem so deep, if the leaves weren't always closer to brown than they were to green. For what reason the water on the window pane parts the way it does. It'll be the thorn that draws these thoughts from me. The thorn that saw my heart turn to ash even before my bones. An ache that weighs on the soul, until its last, most bitter days.

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>>388633498
He will release ricochet 2 someday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2ADkeCTlG0&list=WL&index=66

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>>388633498
I really wonder what's going on in his life. It's easy to call him a cunt.

Maybe he got sucked too far into the business world and lost track of what customers really enjoy. Surrounded every day by suckups who are after his gold, encouraging him to make more money that they can leech off him. Any suggestion that fills more pockets is met with cheer from his surroundings.

Maybe he got tired of all the negative feedback he receives. Make HL3, and get disappointed response because it doesn't live up to the other titles. Don't make HL3, and get equal disappointment. The longer this lasted, the more people shat on him. Being on the receiving end of millions of assholes doesn't make you want to humour anyone. He has money, and ways to fuck people over for even more. For many people, it would be a natural course of action.

>>388656221
>2012
Keep deluding yourself child

>>388634553
When he was dying, and his first thought was to leave money for his family.

>>388633498
there is no room for white males in modern gaming development

>>388633614
Same.
I think Valve will pass from being a company that does everything slow but good to a company just like every other, doing more games but in their case, it'll be more microtransactions based games, or maybe they will just stop making games and focus on services and become the Google of gaming; Which they already are, sort of.

>>388656709
Or maybe he just became a kike.

I wanna see his IRL knife collection. I imagine it is massive now that he has all that money.

>>388655828
kek

>made a lot of money
>his company has become lazy and unambitious
>too much focus on hardware division that's incompetent
>afraid/not interested to even try to make a new game because of people's expectations

There's the whole situation summed up for you. People liked HL2 and TF2 so much they made a meme out of the guy, they never stopped to think of whether or not he might not live up to their expectations. It's just a rich guy who runs a company, he was never out to be some great video game developing artiste. People worked themselves up over nothing.

>>388633498
?

>>388655968
Not him, but I've never really liked it either. Nothing about it's interface or layout is well designed and is always needlessly cluttered or janky.
The steam store is overwhelmingly saturated with uncurated content and trashy or incomplete cash grab products and every shitty point and click VN under the sun leaving the steam store nearly impossible to search for new games. There is no effective way to segment these products for filtering without unintended takedowns because the store relies on community generated tags.
The steam store (via the publishers on the platform) regularly participate in shady business practices by raising products to full price before a "steam sale" to give people the impression of better savings.
Valve takes an unprecedented percentage cut of all revenue on Steam, 30%, which is significantly damaging to smaller releases and indie developers while Valve does little with that money to improve the service. This results in inflated prices.
Any products you own on steam are tied to the platform by design and require it for access to goods that you have purchased. At their sole discretion they can bar you from access to these products or revoke them entirely.
This isn't even getting into their shitty trading cards and marketplace, which doesn't even let you sell games, proving that you don't actually own them.

Steam is just an unfortunate problem really. It's not doing any good for the gaming community and survives soley on the fact that everyone is already dependant on it for many of their games.

>>388633498
>valve
>selling dlc as a full game(l4d2)
should've figured it out just then that it'd come to this

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>>388633498
but op, isn't he a brony?

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You are changed, Gabe.

The man I knew in 2004 would never have gone back on his word. Would never have doubted the loyalty of his franchise.