This is why there's no updates. Valve wants it free, Microsoft wants money for them.Floodclaw said:
Valve hates console gamers?
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Yeah...Pebkac said:
And I hear that apart from eating endangered species,
he also eats baby kittens.
Still alive and breathing.
Damn you Gabe!
Seriously though, Gabe isn't Valve, Gabe isn't Steam, there are more than enough other people who also have plenty of influence concerning those projects.
The audience simply loved Gabe, so they gave 'em Gabe.
I actually think that's an excuse to get away with the whole thing. Valve honestly dislikes console gamers. Its been 2 years, they are never going to do it.Ciarang said:
Most western game companies prefer PC, except the first-party owned companies. But yeah, the PC lot will get special treatment purely because Valve are better people than Microsoft and don't want to make money as much as make the most awesome game they can.
Except it's the truth. They just don't like consoles, but they do like their fans (even though they complain about everything *cough*L4D*cough*). However their main fanbase is on the PC, it seems Valve has pretty much abandoned their console players in favor of their PC audience.gof22 said:
That makes a lot of sense from a business standpoint, go with your largest base.
They are trying to get around the memory limit for the 360. Also, L4D got the DLC before the PC...
Chances are Valve actually makes like half what they get from the PC... because anyone and everyone who plays a Valve game on a console is an idiot. They probably get a lot more money out of Steam then they do selling shitty console ports of their games.Madshaw said:
'Honestly dislikes'? Implying that a gaming company dislikes part of their fanbase for no reason other than they bought a console instead of a PC is perhaps a mite strong, isn't it?megapenguinx said:
What the good fellow meant comrade was that they didnt port it for the PS3 themselves.. Valve outsourced it because PS3 coding scares them.. and ate their kittens.. ;___; which explains why the port was utterly terrible.. and them not 'making' (read: porting) it for the PS3..The Shade said:
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I think you're misinterpreting business decisions and platform hang-ups for an emotional response.
Most of the issues Valve have with the Xbox 360 lie at the feet of Microsoft having rules and system limitations on the system whereas Steam is a Valve product therefore they can do with it what they will and charge whatever they feel like charging for content (which is largely nothing).
As for the PS3, by now we are all well aware of how difficult it is to code for in comparison to the other consoles, so if things take a little while longer or aren't quite as good I would say a fair portion of the blame lies with Sony for trying to re-invent the wheel or as someone else hypothesized trying to become the new standard.
Most of the issues Valve have with the Xbox 360 lie at the feet of Microsoft having rules and system limitations on the system whereas Steam is a Valve product therefore they can do with it what they will and charge whatever they feel like charging for content (which is largely nothing).
As for the PS3, by now we are all well aware of how difficult it is to code for in comparison to the other consoles, so if things take a little while longer or aren't quite as good I would say a fair portion of the blame lies with Sony for trying to re-invent the wheel or as someone else hypothesized trying to become the new standard.
Time plays absolutely no role in whether Valve will update release a game etc... You could argue the same thing for the PC. At the rate valve is going they will be supporting TF2 for the PC 2.5 years after release. October last year they updated HL. At that time Half Life was out for nearly 10 years.megapenguinx said:
So far Valve has released 2 games for consoles. The first of which they nearly pushed the 360 to its memory limits and to add more stuff, have to change almost everything. This means they haven't updated more than simple bugfixes. The second game they have updated with the PC and have even gotten one of their major updates to be free despite Microsoft's money grubbing hands.apsham said: