Orks da best said:
This thread is made up by people who are blinded by valve. A monoply in any form is always bad, no matter the creater or owner, monoplies are bad. Also doesn't help that eveen if you buy a game from a store you still need bloodly steam to play. (mad about Dawn of War 2)
EA, I have really have no quarrels with them, either I don't play games they make, or enjoy them immesely, which is more than I can say for valve games. Valve enjoying for shorts bursts, EA, I tend to enjoy longer, but than again it could be because I'am a gamer who enjoy playing games for a good while.
Also I think valve is trolling their fans for half-life 3 just because they can, after all, most valvies are blinded.
Seems to me it's the other way around. This thread (and by extension this website) is full of people blinded by their hate of Valve.
I love it when people go on tirades about Valve's "monopoly" on PC gaming. It's fucking hilarious. Especially when one considers how apparent it is these same people have no true grasp of what a real monopoly is.
Here's a useful link: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/monopoly
You'll notice the part that says, "Exclusive control". Not sure if you've noticed, but a vast majority of the PC games market is decidedly NOT under exclusive control of Valve.
When you can definitively point to a moment in time when Valve
does have complete control over every game in the PC market, then you can sit on your high horse of "superiority", look down on us poor pathetic Valve fans, and tell us they have a monopoly. Until then, please try to cut back on the rhetoric.
I'm also noticing that a vast majority of the people in here voting for Valve as the "most evil" publisher (ha! people think they're a publisher? hilarious.) are claiming so because they aren't fans of Valve's games.
So let me get this straight. Valve is the most "evil publisher" because you don't like their games?
Oh yeah. Seems
totally legit.
My God. The levels of lunacy the Valve hate on this forum has reached is bordering on laughably insane.
Also, Valve isn't "trolling" their fans about Half-Life 3. A vast majority of the "trolling" is coming from people who enjoy picking on Valve's fan base. It's truly pathetic.
So maybe you should turn your "hatred" towards the people that deserve it. I.E. the more immature portions of the gaming community.
SonOfVoorhees said:
Smithburg said:
Valve has 11 people voting them the worst... wat?
Maybe cos people are dumb in believing there will be a half life 3. Their wont. Valve started episodic gaming yet cancelled HF Ep3 cos they couldn't be bothered. I dont get why people have this jesus complex with valve, they do fuck all. Yet people worship them.
Valve didn't abandon Half-Life. They abandoned episodic game design. They came to realize it didn't conform to their design philosophy.
How anyone thinks them moving from "episodic" to "games as a service" means they abandoned Half-Life is absolutely beyond me. Seems like a complete failure of logic.
But, for clarity's sake, here's a link: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/04/23/gabe-on-ricochet-2-delay-but-he-doesnt-mean-ricochet/
And, conveniently, it's from April of this year. So it's not like it was something they said a long time ago.
One last thing: "Valve...does fuck all"?
Oh yes. They are the laziest developer on the planet.
I mean, it's not like they've shipped at least one game every year since 2003, designed, built, and updated the worlds largest and most popular game distribution platform, provided hundreds of content updates to just about every title they've released, free of charge, etc, etc. All with a total employee count of about 250. (little known fact, they currently employ people from WETA workshop, PIXAR, and Jim Henson Company)
Yes. You're right. They "do fuck all". And are clearly deserving of all of our ire.