Valve Not Interested in "Selling Out"

[SaintWaldo]

But nobody takes it too seriously because although Valve is slow, it's also unerringly brilliant.

OK. Detente time here. If you game journalists will agree to stop making unsupportable blanket assertions like that, I'll stop calling you out for them.

This is your one pass.

 

[Ldude893]

Does anyone have to be psychic to know what the biggest bombshell is?

Wrong thread

 

[bam13302]

/applause
id rather have a late game then a **** game
dont sellout valve, i love u the way you are, and iv given you enough money to prove it >.<

 

[maturin]

Christopher Walken has played a major on-screen role in an ancient game called Ripper. Go see the review on the Spoony Experiment. He's ridiculous.

 

[Arcanist]

I'd totally buy up some VALVe stock if they went public, but I have deep respect for any company that knows who they are and what the people they cater to want. Good for them!

Also, I'd hate to lose VALVe time. It's the only constant we can count on in this topsy-turvy world.

 

[Vhite]

Well, I'm glad they're still super cool.

I would love to see Christopher Walken in a Valve game.

This guy... he's un-fucking-believable.

+30 internet points if you get that reference.

Come on, everyone who knows Spoony knows his Ripper(or something like that) review. You cant give away so many internet points just like that.

 

[Nosense]

Cheers Valve *raises glass*

 

[SFR]

This isn't even trolling. I'm not joking. So here it is: Who's Christopher Walken?

Wait, don't tell me, I'll just wiki it quick (ha, that's a funny if you understand Hawai'in.)

EDIT: Oooooooooooh, so that's that guys name... Yeah... not sure about that one. He'd have to play someone sort of specific. Also this thread needs more cowbell.

 

[Iron Lightning]

Well, I'm glad they're still super cool.

I would love to see Christopher Walken in a Valve game.

This guy... he's un-fucking-believable.

+30 internet points if you get that reference.

Come on, everyone who knows Spoony knows his Ripper(or something like that) review. You cant give away so many internet points just like that.

Sorry, I should have mentioned that I measure internet win in retropoints (rPts); 30 of which are roughly equivalent to 5 achievepoints (aPts)

Note that retropoints are derived from high score placings on arcade machines, thus they are inversely proportional to win.

Win = D/rPts = D(aPts/150) where D is the difficulty variable.

So... yeah, I'm not quite sure what I'm going on about here but the point is that I use different metrics and I'm make a note of that next time.

 

[RvLeshrac]

While I would personally own VALVe stock, I am really glad to hear this. When companies go public, they have the responsibility of answering to their stockholders and not to their community.

They would be forced to deliver products before they were completed and polished, and that just isn't their style. Also, God forbid they ever decided to replace Gabe... The gaming community might rise as one and bring about the apocolypse.

...like to own a piece of their action but they're right: if they went public, their decisions would be based on what "the board" wants and not what their fans want. It's the reason we have halfway functional consoles and halfway finished games this gen.
Board members are only concerned about the bottom line (raising the stock's prices for shareholders) and not about the consumer's wants and needs. It's one of the major flaws of capitalism.

What's an IPO?

IPO = Initial Public Offering, where company offers public shares for the first time, prompting much speculative buying

Though publicly traded shares can be a great way to accumulate a bankroll for a major game project, the downside is that voting rights typically are awarded on a 1-share = 1-vote basis, which can lead to voting pressure to focus on short-term gain, whilst damaging their long-term viability.

An interesting idea had been put forth to introduce voting limits on newly bought shares, such as not allowing them to count towards voting for a certain length of time (e.g., months, or a year). The counter argument to such schemes is that voting limits would discourage investors from buying shares in the first place.

Going bankrupt is generally a FAR, FAR better idea than going Public. External shareholders are almost universally short-sighted morons, excepting those with no voting power. The best idea is to scrap the regulations requiring that companies act in the interest of shareholders, replacing them with ethics regulations carrying extremely stiff penalties.

 

[ObsessiveSketch]

VALVe + torturously long wait-time = amazing game?....yeah, I'm okay with that

 

[Mayu_Zane]

I often wonder how other companies see Valve. I mean, Valve operates and behaves so differently from many other game companies, ValveCorp must look like this bizarre magical money-making alien that defies their understanding of how to run a game company. They give out free updates and extra content (on the PC, anyway), continue to survive despite having long development cycles, and are very in touch with consumer demands.

 

[Corpse XxX]

Valve is instant win as they are, even though they are slow, they always make up for it with free updates

If i could i would marry Valve!

 

[BloodRed Pixel]

Valve, I said it before is one of the few company that just seem to make everything right.

They keep the decisions to themself, they put their money to good use to develop the best games and services out there and take their time to get everything right, their DRM is really acceptable
(And I !H A T E DRM!) AND they interact with the community.

And they essentially REVIVED the Mac gaming scene. It´s not perfect yet but it´ll come.
Macs have seen more releases in the last 4 months than in 3years before.

So who cares if they are slow?

This is very rare these days.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Didn't Gabe already sell out when he totally changed his attitude about the PS3 once he had product to shift on it?...

Given your username, I find your choice of words ironic.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

You should read your bible good sir.

I prefer my fiction to be entertaining.

According to the Gospel of Judas he was asked by Jesus himself to "betray" him since he had to be crucified for mans sins.
Since Judas was his most trusted disciple he was the only one Jesus could rely on to do such a task and have people cursing his name for all eternity.
A great and greatly misunderstood man was Judas.

Some might say that Gabe was asked for a similar duty by Kevin Butler...there's a theological construct to work on.

Look at him! Look how sad he looks. ;.;

I'm not sure but I don't think the middle-eastern Iscariot would be in a leather jacket...