Source 2 games by Valve

>>>/SomethingAwful/

What?

Fuck my fucking life

When I don't want to play a story based game I'll play Pacman on Atari.

Literally impossible, Alyx was very clearly shown to have the hots for Gordon. Now, she may also have a thing for Dog and maybe a vortigaunt or two (seeing how they energy-fondled her profusely in Episode 2), but there'll still be room in her bed for the strong, silent type.

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“Yep. They’re coming.”

“The number 3 must not be said.”

“I personally believe all unidentified anonymous sources on the Internet”
ITS OVER GOYS, I REGRET HALF LIFE AS A SERIES, ENJOY THE JEWJEW MOVIE

well it finally happened

We memed too hard guys

What a fucking wonderful time to live

WHY GABE

WHY DO YOU DO THIS EVIL THING

Actual nig posting? Now I know any rebuttal won't be understood. Enjoy being a wrong person about this topic.

I'll just call them out right now

*>Ricochet 2 VR

Of course its a lie. Every time they tease some Source2 bullshit without actually showing anything they pop a "sale" and make mad dosh.

Its been fucking years, no one gives a shit about half life anymore and anyone who does would experience Duke Nukem Forever tier disappointment as it could never live up to expectations at this point and they know it.

Was it in development? Yeah, definitely.
Is it still? Fuck no.
Valve started going south when they took on that kike financial advisor after the first big summer sale.

tbh a movie will do a better job wrapping everything up than any game CY+2 Valve could possibly deliver.

i will never buy a steam gamer again

I dont get why Gabe gave off that response, what the fuck did he think was going to happen when there's been no official news about it for YEARS, almost an entire decade now.

I'll believe it when I see it. Even then though I got a gut feeling its gonna be more VR tech demos, multiplayer games with microtransactions or mainly done as a response to the CSGO gambling shit, not because they actually wanted to do something of their own will.

Guys, I need unrelated help, I cannot enter the Rainbow Six Siege thread, it 404's me.

Same

POST YFW YOU NEVER FELL FOR THE HALF-LIFE MEME

I just wish Valve would stop pretending they're still in the business of game development. They really aren't, no more than EA is. If they spot something they want, they buy it and release it as their own. They could do absolutely nothing else but keep Steam operating and make more money than God. They have no need to waste time and effort gambling on fickle market tastes when owning the entire market is far more reliable and lucrative.

Despite the fact that Dota 2 is not my game, it is solid and it did used to be the most online fun you could have for free.

I am still excited by anything made by valve, especially if those games aren't multiplayer.

Nigga you haven't pre-ordered HIJK?
Shit is viral as fuck, I mean nigga, this shit will have you feeling ill, your skin going to bruising and piss full of blood, that's how fucking sick this DLC is.
Pre-order NOW!

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Wow, thats fucking great. Can you, or we, or whatever pronoun Holla Forums isnt angry about, call a mod to fix it?

You're stuck in the past, moderates have no place on an imageboard

I think he is just baiting.

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For fuck's sake, Marc Laidlaw is the only reason I like Half-Life beyond Opposing Force. Just fucking give him the IP and let him make a book concluding the series at this point, I JUST WANT TO KNOW HOW IT ENDS.

Nigga you haven't pre-ordered HIJK?
Shit is viral as fuck, I mean nigga, this shit will have you feeling ill, your skin going to bruising and piss full of blood, that's how fucking sick this DLC is.
Pre-order NOW!

Fuck this fag ass thread.
KILL YOURSELF NIGGER SPIC DUNE KOON CHINK NIP FAGGOTS

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like come on guys really

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A short history of Source 2 by VALVe, a "Video Game" "Developer" and Online Distributor:

> L4D2's engine is totally Source 2, as was L4D. Sorta. Thanks Turtle Rock Studios. We'll make you the other Valve location now. Oh fuck, that didn't go well. Never happened :^)
> Wait, make that Portal 2. See the improvements? $60 for 6 hours tops but it's got hats. Wait fuck that this was a terrible idea.
> Actually CSGO runs on Source 2. Some of the files are named after Source 2 so it's Source 2. Let's start putting files that allude to Source 2 in TF2 updates and bait the HL3 crowed!
> Maybe might want to give that Source 2 label to DOTA2 and update CSGO to that version of source Source 2.

Why would I believe anything Valve says?

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Some threads on Holla Forums have mysteriously been broken as well. I thought it was just a mod having a hissy, it might still be.

Everyone dies, the end.

Damn son, the hotpockets are square today.

It was basically over when they tried out the episodic shit.

I remember how excited everybody was when HL2 released, I really doubt there would be as much excitement if HL3 was given a release date tomorrow. They should have just put out something years ago.

Ship sailed a long time ago. 2012-3 was the absolute latest they could have pulled it off.

Because its Gaben, why woukd he? :^)
Funny how we're really going to get Left4 Dead 3 before an Half Life 3.
5 years and this video is still relevant

Likely due to the short 1 minute the site went down.

>>>Holla Forums

I just wish they at least outsourced original IPs or new/revival genres.
They have the money and the platform, but not even that.
At least 3D audio and VR might be a thing in a decade

If they had rekeased Episode 3 within 2 or 3 years after 2, it would've been fine.
Hell, even if they have no clue how to end the story , an open end would've been enough.
But by now it's too late, since everyone is expecting the nexxt big thing that will blow everyones mind in a way that's unimaginable.
they made their own bed, and at best would never release HL3, unless they're about to close down or Jewben is about to retire.

It kinda pains me how those playing HL2 today think it's a boring run of the mill game. They have no idea why HL2 was new and fresh back then because everything after it borrowed a bit of the formula and features.

I played it back then, shit then, shit today. HL1 was way better on every way.

my dad works at steam, gabe newell died 2 years ago the person doing the AMA is an impostor.

Yeah I agree HL1 was better for its time. You don't think HL2's introduction and creative use of physics wasn't groundbreaking though?

I, for one, am disappoint we'll never get crowbar skins and banana hats. Imagine the opening scene only the "wake up and smell the asses" guy is wearing a traffic cone on his head! Valve sure is leaving a lot of lulz on the table :(

It was the only good thing about that game, blasting enemies with a saw blade was entertaining.

REMINDER
Who gives a shit about Valve, Steam and HalfShit.

3D audio was a thing more than 15 years ago.

Until Creative killed literally every other company.

And its as predominant nowadays as RTS games.

I hope he's making a game about furries. They would be fun.

Didn't they even buy up the super resource-cheap and realistic shadow tech from Doom 3 and FEAR?

NEVER

EVER

Ebin trolle fellow redditor

Who gives a shit

I do

Is it just me or did these trailers looked better than the final game? There is this one video where most of the enviroment is destructable and it looked pretty cool.

Whelp, it's over

Check this amount of detail

Seinfeld

soo… half-life the new never ever?

I'd pirate it

Yeah what about it

Ricochet 2
Portal 2 1/2

WHAT WILL VNN SAY NOW

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Maybe I'm extrapolating a little bit here but could he possibly be referring to the fact that he cannot help but find fault in his own work when he says he harbours regrets? Regrets over what he could have done looking back? I'm not sure what regrets they may actually be, which is the worrying part of course, and of course his opinion and mode of thought has probably changed sincd he first made it, but even he surely couldn't feel the negative sides of such actions? I feel as though if he had truly admitted that what he had helped accomplish was a mistake, he would also have had to accept the fact that half life 2 helped secure Valve's place in the industry than it ever could have hindered them.

I'm not defending the guy - I just think that saying one of the greatest things you could have ever done was a mistake –without even looking on the positive sides of that feat – is absolutely retarded.

Tons of postprocessing. Source Film Maker basically came out of this need for good looking trailers.

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why not the original rouge

Likely the fact that they were under Sierra to publish their game and their orgnization and methods were completely different to what they have now when still consolidating themselves as an independent private company.
One such organization method being Gabe at the helm of most decisions when making Half Life and 2 +Episodes/Orange Box.

He thinks Half Life is an outdaded game with outdated development methods, especially considering the current state of the company.

Its fucked laddeh

Likely not into thick midget furries
aka hes got shit taste

What sheboon actress will play Gordon Freeman?

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Woah

HALF LIFE 3 CONFIRMED
NICHIJOU S2 CONFIRMED
SPICE AND WOLF S3 CONFIRMED
in Gensokyo. See you there.

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Either way, it's still probably a .45 and will get the job done.

Don't play with me like that you piece of shit.

She just can't catch a break

Where did all the good taste in Nipland go?

b-but all he needs is one person out there who'll get him out of that horrible, ignorant state and show him what Half-Life really is, a-and then he'll… get it, right…? He'll lose his obsession with "freemium" "social" gaming; he'll stop letting Valve's "B" employees hire "C" employees who'll hire "D" employees; he'll… get Valve to actually do something other than trying to play the kike, r-right?

tfw you're still stuck on your hl3 plot outline

Kyoani has no one to blame but themselves.

I have my doubts about current year Valve, but surely they could do better than a bland, safe template plot sprinkled with kike indoctrination.

Maybe in a few decades someone will leak what was intended for the HL3 ending :^)

Not into furries.

ACKCHYUALLY

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Seriously, how hard is it to make a decent shooter and a conclusion to the fucking story?

fixed that for you

No, you'll blow your face off and survive as a disfigured blind person.

They have a fucking monopoly in pc gaming

The game has been done for years. Gaben is just trying to figure out a way to get people to pay for micro-transactions in a single player fps.

I'm sure rapidly expanding air to the nasal cavity would cause further damage.

HL3 would be the worst video game ever made, it wouldn't stop them from making hundreds of millions of dollars off of CSGO/DOTA2 skins and the cut of the profits they make from the bazillion games sold on Steam.

It'd still cause a massive shitstorm.

It would cause impotent whining.

That implies there's still actual interest in that series outside of fanboy circles. The current gen is filled with casuals who would probably buy whatever was put out for geek cred and move on after a few months. Valve could release some fps with a half-baked ending for the series investing very little with it and still make their money on it.

What will come out first: Evangelion rebuild 4.0 or a new game by valve?

Good news: Porn confirmed for Steam.
Bad news: Completely uncurated.

What if Evangelion rebuild 4.0 ends up being a game made by valve?

Death of the universe

Even outside of pornography this needs to be in steam anyways. Are they just refusing to publish porn because it would mean they'd have to actually make their store halfway decent?

I'd love a Evangelion Visual Novel. That way Asukafags, Reifags, Misatofags and Kaworufags could finally be happy.

DoD source 2? I don't know if I'd like it seeing how shit CS:GO is.

I remember playing HL2 years ago and was blown away by it, thought it was the best game ever but I was young and naive. Played it recently and it's a really mediocre game, and the guns were all weak and sounded like shit, especially that stupid fucking pistol. I don't know why I was so blown away by it, maybe it's because it was my first PC game?

Combination first PC game and having fantastic physics.

You can say that about any once revolutionary game

Yeah it's gotta be that. Had some neat physics I was blown away. I actually haven't played episode 1 or 2, but I've come to a point where I don't want to waste time playing video games nor do I care to, although I come here out of pure boredom and nothing else to do. Although playing videogames is at least somewhat more productive than browsing chans.

Good, don't. Dictionary shows an Ep 1 screencap as definition for "forgettable", Episode 2 ends on such a massive and fairly abrupt cliffhanger that it still rumbles my autism to this day.

She will be the funny sidekick to strong women Gordona Freeman.

Jewllywood only allows niggers two roles: -Funny Sidekick, for niggers antics are funny.
-Wise Mentor, for nigger have nature connections and live in forest and shit.

And remember Goyim, YOU are the racists ones.

Yeah i'll believe that bullshit when I see it.

Heh that bad huh? Maybe it's for the best we don't get HL3. Valve only made one good game Half life 1, the other games aren't even their original creations they were mods before Valve bought them. Don't understand why the internet loves them.

I remember hating how it kept interrupting the fun. It was really fun at parts, then it would just abruptly stop and force you to do a physics puzzle just to remind you they built a physics engine, then back to the fun.

Yeah I remember that now, they should have found better ways to show off their physics instead of using puzzles.
I downloaded Minerva a HL2 mod which is supposed to be really good but ended bored with it, the guns in HL2 are just shit I couldn't play it.

Don't forget

Now everyone is using Unreal 4 because of a better feature set and no lock to any device or platform (and despite Tim Sweeney being batshit crazy). No one wants to use Source 2 now because not even Valve has any sort of product that demonstrates what it's capable of.

I'd be surprised if they are still in VR by the end of this year since HTC looks like it's done and VR being so slow on the uptake means it will have to be done with a new partner.

Well, there were a shitton of mistakes made in 2/Episodes.

Seriously, those games did not age well. Half-Life 1 on the other hand…

if your animated series costs more than used car to buy all the blurays you need to reevaluate your business choices

What about L4D3?

Valve has a very loose definition of "in development." Some years ago it was claimed that the development system they had was "work on whatever," so there's probably some skeleton of a half-life 3-like game somewhere.

But Steam is a console.

Oh boy, (((they))) do look for each other after all!

Interviews withValve ex-employees are out there, people with seniority (5+ years, +10 years in the company) call the shots. Reality is GabeCo doesn't care about anything but operating their money-printing storefront nowadays.

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Fucking hell, Why do they keep giving this jew jew peice of crap opportunities to make movies. he's fucking terrible! there is no doubt in my mind its because he's a fucking jew!

Just…

Just have a higher focus on Alyx. That's all that's necessary for Diversity Focus.

Also apparently Valve keeps it's lay offs incredibly quiet. The guy who used to supervise OpenGL tech for them before leaving said most of the Linux team were quietly let go in 2014 and SteamOS was run by a skeleton crew. There's very little course correction if a product is going to fail like Steamboxes as well.

Oh and the entire "OGL and Linux is better" blog post Gabe made was to Saber rattle Microsoft into action. They never seriously intended to support it and it became even more evident once Gabe got a former co-worker and friend into the head of gaming slot of MS (Spencer supposedly was going to leave MS for a producing job at Valve at one point till Robbie Bach talked him out of it) and Gabe basically gets everything he wanted out of Microsoft and more these days.

He's a businessman at the end of the day. Nothing more, nothing less. And the AMA just proved it.

I wouldn't be shocked if Source 2 is a go nowhere project and devs tell him to go fuck off because they are already way entrenched in Unreal.

Honestly, I tried reading through the AMA, and I can't get behind this interface at all. These fucking people use this site every day and they don't have an issue with such a poorly designed interface? The comments buried in boxes that you have to expand, the upboats and downvotes, trying to read all of the nested shit to try and find Gabe's answers… After only 5 minutes, I have to say "fuck it."
It seems like the only good formats are either flat thread design like 2ch/4ch/8ch or as some kind of video/stream. Trying to use reddit is a fucking mess and a hassle, my only time ever visiting that site and I wish I hadn't bothered.

Probably its worst "feature" is that every comment thread is self-contained. If you update a page to get the new posts, then you either have to lose all thread information by sorting by newest first, or read through every thread to find the new posts. I don't know how anyone thought it was a good design. 8ch's method, for reference, is good since you can immediately see the thread a post is in

Human life is a joke.

GabeN was worth over a billion dollars before he even started Valve, he was a Microsoft founder. That said, it's not like they've done "absolutely nothing," aside from the people who implement and makes games with him, do you think that Gabe just plays video games all day and forges knives all day, and that he does nothing at all? He owns Valve, it's not a publicly traded company, if he wasn't doing anything he would just appoint a general manager and stop showing up altogether.

ITT: Gabe is and always has been a shrewd, morbidly obese business man.

Man, what a shock. It's almost as if he said those things about piracy and consumer rights early on before he had a stranglehold on PC gaming just so that he could gain support and a larger market share in the industry…how strange. I literally cannot wrap my mind around why he would do such a thing. :^)

Valve has been teasing a "pyro update" for TF2 for fucking months now. Still not out. Wanna guess what the next update for CS:GOYIM will be? Cosmetics? Good fucking bet. Valve is and always have been extremely good with PR, so people buy into their bullshit. It'll stay that way too.

Every single executive could come out and literally say "We hate games and we just want your money you dumb fucking shitters." and people will still love them.

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>>>/bog/

I used to be happy

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Also it has been confirmed that Half Life 3 is in development hell if not even abandoned because of following reasons:

1. Valve fears negative publicity from bad game/game that doesnt meet fan expectations like Bethesda got and Bioware got for Mass Effect 3

2. They are making shitload of money from existing games like TF2, Dota2 and CS GO to the point they no longer need to make new games when the old ones with microtransactions are making insane amounts of money for them

HL3 is never gona come sadly.

Good. Alien: Covenant looks like a hot, steamy, fresh pile of turds from the trailer alone.

you're forgetting those games are getting old and people want something new. they have to release source 2 or become irrelevant.

accoring to Valve and their customers they dont have to release anything new, Dota2 is giving them too much money, for The International tourney Valve takes 75% of compendium purchase and only 25% goes to prize pool which is huge

Go back to Reddit

What the fuck is actually up with gay ben and the number 3? Is it a clever PR stunt, some autistic principle or just occasion?

So some recruiter put out an ad on reddit to hire shills in Bellevue WA, specifically to shill and take moderation activities on 4chan and reddit.

reddit.com/r/SeaJobs/comments/5oe4k5/seeking_reddit_and_4chan_experts_with_an_interest/

One of the running theories is that this may be for shills either for Valve (based in Bellevue) or Microsoft, Nintendo, or Bungie based in extremely closeby Redmond.

The recruiter herself has seeming interest in VR tech or at least attends VR meetups as a networking kind of thing.

I'm leaning toward it being some kind of community manipulation (shilling) regarding something to come soon from Valve (considering the timing here after the ama) or panic damage control from Nintendo (the reception of switch hasn't been perfect and communities like Holla Forums or various reddit subs can turn things into jokes, things that companies have invested a lot in to)

Of course some on Holla Forums think it's about other stuff (jews) but I think it has to do with gaming, Holla Forums and reddit subs are shilled endlessly and there's enough links here to suggest that's what it is

Prolly should drop this in its own thread but meh

(don't remember how to properly link to a thread on another board)
8ch.net/pol/res/8824675.html

If the money trail leads back to a Jew, then it's obviously Jews. It's not hard to understand user. Nice try in hiding your Newfaggotry hyperlinking to another board is the same as the arrows only it's three and the /boardname/postnumber once you figure that out there is no forgetting it especially because there is an actual guide on how to post these things.

FUCKING THIS
Anybody who talks about Half Life 3 being the best game ever and that's why it needs to come out has NEVER played Half Life.
If they had then they would know that the SINGLE reason that people want it is because they want the story to finish

You don't fit in, fam.

I haven't linked to another board in over a year. Take it or leave it

And if you look at her past posts on reddit it seems she hires for community mods on xbox live, but the last two posts ask specifically for 4chan users or "reformed chans" so there's something weird there. I still think it could be for shilling in gaming communities.

As for "does it lead to jews", what's your measure of that here? It led to an IT recruiting firm and some random blond from WA with a man jaw

the story in HL is nothing to write home about though

C'mon HL's story, as shallow as it was, execution was great for a game. Then there is HL2… which fucking sucked on all departments.

Man I wish I could do that for a living, what a dream job.

HL2 had its conclusion before they fucked it up with the "american-indian-xen shamans" shit to make "Episodes".

fixed
Scott is a sci fi hack like George "Poetry" Lucas

Yeah, you ever only hear about the people who managed to gain some sort of prominence at a point (like Laidlaw, Antonov or Swift).
The only way is closely observing Glassdoor, LinkedIn and various sites that host art portfolios which is one of the ways HL3 concept art and other fragments from started and discarded games like Stars of Barathrum/Blood has been discovered.

That's a given at this point. Frankly, given what a poorly documented mess Source was I'm suprised it was even picked up in the first place.

Send her some pizzas

You need help

If it's a data gathering operation. I'd assume it's independent agency and it's going to be sold on to Valve, MS, Sony and Nintendo. Those companies usually use the same data collection and corporate intelligence agencies.

The bad news is that it's not shilling. They would talk about direct action if it was (Plus any company who wanted to was send that to a skeevy PR firm who can hire some 3rd world country data factory to do it).

Job's More based on stats collection and logging data than interacting with the "Digital Natives" (God the buzzwords are shitty)

The blog was by was Rich Geldrich who was Not officially head of Tech at Valve but close to that position (lol Horizontal Structure) since HL1 who blogged about how Valve supporting Linux and OGL was only just to trigger MS into action and not really any indication of long term support

richg42.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-faster-zombies-blog-post.html

You don't hear a lot about the people who left Valve but a lot of them seem to have a lot of grievances with how Valve is run like the AR team going public after Valve canned them how they were making progress and suddenly Valve started diminishing their budget and driving them out of the company before they just got rid of them.

I wouldn't be surprised to see the Source 2 team and the tech teams gone this year since Source 2 is basically vaporware at this point (Respawn's moving to Unreal 4 instead for their Star Wars game according to their job listings) and it barely sounds like they are working on any gaming projects outside of updating DOTA and CS:GO.

It's basically a shitshow but they own 95% of the market so they can be as incompetent as they like.

Yeah, the interview with Jeri Ellsworth was quite interesting. But most of the time people simply keep quiet because the game dev industry is insular as fuck and being too loud about these things will get you marked and end your emplyoment propects.

Yeah, they are Nintendo-tier at this point and can probably coast by on cash reserves and market inertia for a decade or two now.

yeah, if you have autism

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The nested post system isn't the best, but it beats in line posting when you have a large amount of people discussing different topics or who can't moderate what they post. Livestream threads on 4chan are an example of what happens when a group like what sites like Reddit are made to deal with is using a board with in line posting, you get 30-60 posts per page refresh normally if you leave the refresh rate at 30 seconds and sometimes the post rate hits 10 posts per second, it's basically unusable. As for reading the AMA, I personally read the AMA by opening Gabe's post history and opening each post he made in the time frame of the AMA with the "context" link in a new tab.

Reddit was never that great due to being circlejerky, but it wasn't this bad a few years back. The problem is that most of the user base today is approaching or reaching Youtube comments tier with no ability to moderate what they post and are just flooding popular threads with what might as well be spam. Interesting fact, Reddit in August of 2013 had just as many connections per month as 4chan does today, and 4chan in August of 2013 had about 1/3 the connections it currently has per month. Proofs:
rank2traffic.com/4chan.org
rank2traffic.com/reddit.com

If I remember they spoke out about Valve because Valve acquired their AR startup and then dismantled it so they were a bit bitter but they went quiet quickly when they moved to other companies and a few of that team moved to Microsoft to work on their AR.

I don't think they have as much as that. I saw a few reports saying they lost a considerable pile of money on VR and will probably lose a bit more trying to keep the Vive spin-off alive as HTC is not long for this world and probably won't see the end of 2017. While overall Steam spending was flat in 2016 due to some of the biggest PC games coming out on other clients (Battlefield 1, Forza Horizon 3 and especially Overwatch). They aren't an invincible billion dollar war chest company since they were active in spending and have been frugal enough to kill projects they didn't want to spend more money on. A lot of developers didn't seem to come out from Steam Days 2016 too happy either as there was no re-assurances regarding promotion of their games or stemming the tide of Early Access asset flips (And lack of curation is really starting to hurt Steam).

I suppose competition might open up a bit more this year as it's rumored Activision is going to cancel putting COD on PC and release Destiny 2 on the Blizzardnet Client instead of Steam. Ubisoft has been removing their back catalog and may ditch Steam and Capcom announced they will start shipping games on Windows Store starting with Resident Evil 7 which will be "Xbox Play Anywhere" (Which now means you get a digital copy that will play on any PC, Xbone and Scorpio you sign into). Phil Spencer said they have more companies and games TBA through the year on that as well.

At the same time, while it might be a wake up when companies fracture the market to try remove Steam's grip (And I have to say that while UWP and Windows Store is a current horrific shitshow. XPA is a really fucking great idea and people will buy into it). I'd just see Gabe start cutting deals for less monetary share and allowing more API's to hook into steam instead of losing active users. He's proven before that he's just trying to get Microsoft to act in his best interests and I'd imagine MS can get him to back into their interests as well (Valve was the first company outside of MS to see Project Scorpio, even). He's more likely to try bring MS, EA, Ubi and Acti to the table than telling them to fuck off.

GDC is going to be interesting this year. Especially as Valve was not at CES 2017 after being there for the previous five years.

I played HL2 when it launched at it felt like boring tech demo even back then. Or well it started out interesting but with no coherent story or explanation what was happening it didn't leave positive impression.

Steam is shit but that's hardly competition.

She's scorch the inside of her mouth and nasal cavity, blow off her nose, and pass out from the shock/pain. If medical personnel are close enough, they'd easily be able to rescue her without any risk of death. Without them close by, it's likely that most of the wound would be cauterized by the hot gas, and the nose likely would clot fast enough to keep her alive.

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She's a magical girl. In the movie she shoots her self in the head (though not from that angle), heals herself, and gets back up.

True, it seems like a bunch of Normalfag dudebro shit. But the problem is it's adding up and creating a "Death by a thousand cuts" scenario. How long before 2K decides they don't want steam as their primary platform and creates their own client for Rockstar and 2K games based off social club and starts exclusively selling through there. It would be shit, but it takes more power from steam. And it sounds like the second big size 3rd party publisher who will be on Windows Store and supporting "Xbox Play Anywhere" will be Paradox (They have an announcement regarding the Xbone release date of Cities Skylines and working with MS at GDC that's expected to be XPA support along with more titles heading to W10 store) and more following like Team 17 (I believe Yooka Laylee is an XPA game as well).

You also have to take into account that some indies are getting fed up with Steam's lack of curation and early access shovelware are looking into GOG and Microsoft's curated versions. Or trying to get a deal with Sony or Nintendo for a console debut on their title to ensure it gets coverage because Valve has royally fucked up and the only way a dev can get kicked out for producing unplayable crap is to threaten Valve with a lawsuit.

Not even the home computing era of ZX Spectrum and C64 had low fucking standards like that (And that was one or two guys bedroom coding and selling tapes they duplicated using a double deck tape recorder).

Sure, Valve could carve a niche by allowing some AO rated games like Hatred and Genital Jousting a platform. I doubt they would allow outright porn (Sorry Eroge fans). But if the problem is, the industry is realizing they need Valve less and less every month.
CSGO and DOTA have a healthy userbase and steam will remain popular but if Purchasing was flat in 2016 and there was only one new release that sold over a million on Steam in 2016 (Civ VI) while the competition were absolutely roaring without Valve. Publishers and developers are going to ask if they really need Steam when Valve is doing nothing to improve the platform and even outright making it worse? Why not go it alone or double dip on a different platform like GOG or Windows Store that has additional benefits for users? That's going to be hard for Valve because it has the potential to split sales and hurt their bottom line if it's avaialable on more stores.

Which one of these mongolians would u fug? I would the one to the left.

L4D3 never ever

Go back to >>>/trs/ Alt-Kike Christkike

The only thing Half Life had going for it was the mods, Valve knew this very well and even made entire games out of the mods people made. The seriewa itself was fairly meh after the original.

>L4D3 never ever

Would you seriously want a L4D with microtransactions?