Valve Outgrows Its "Episodes Phase"

[Doclector]

I'm guessing that's not the only thing Gabe Newell has outgrown

Im one of the last people who should've laughed.

I still did.

I hope this doesn't mean even less attention given to consoles. Sure, if they don't want to release a game on consoles, it sucks, but it's their call, however, if they release a game on consoles then leave tge servers to rot, and game breaking glitches to be exploited, all while the steam version quadrouples in content for free, we're really getting the shaft.

Yes, i am stil angry about tf2 360. I always will be.

 

[Phishfood]

I'm sure 300 angry valve fans have beaten me to it buuuuuuuuut
"In general, our approach to our customers is, every day, to ask what we can do for them."

Make! Episode! Three! RRRRRrrrrr!

 

[Roxor]

I wonder if finishing Portal 2 will see the conclusion of the HL2 episodes, or better still, the HL2 episodes amalgamated into HL3, with a free patch to HL3 for anyone who owns the episodes.

 

[WanderingFool]

"We went through the episodes phase, and now we're going towards shorter and even shorter cycles," Newell explained in an interview with Develop. "With episodes, I think we accelerated the model and shortened development cycles with it. If you look at Team Fortress 2, that's what we now think is the best model for what we've been doing. Our updates and release model keeps on getting shorter and shorter."

I think Valve failed to take one thing into account, their episodes idea spawned two episodes over a period of several years, when it was intended to release new content every 6 months. Their episode idea failed spectacularly.

Dont give me a fuck-ton of useless hats and tell me its an update...

...you know, im half tempted to post a picture making fun a Newell with this...

 

[Lord Beautiful]

I'm sure the fans are ecstatic about this change. Now instead of waiting 4+ years for a quarter of a game, they can wait 1 year for one hour of gameplay. Progress!

 

[RuralGamer]

In Valve speak it means "IT'S NEVER COMING OUT, HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA *strokes a white cat*".

My thoughts exactly; perhaps this is actually Valve saying "Yeah, we can't be arsed with Half Life any more so... Yeah, don't expect to see it." As for the stroking white cat, I'd have more thought that from Steve Ballmer or Howard Stringer; actually wait, maybe Newell has been the evil genius all along, playing both sides till the Steam console is ready to take over...

 

[zombie711]

Well perhapse they will get episode 3 out faster now.

anyways now have have an excuse to post this

 

[NickCaligo42]

I'm guessing that's not the only thing Gabe Newell has outgrown

Ha ha! Gabe Newell is fat indeed... well played, HankMan, well played...

See, what bugs me about this release is that they failed at the Episode model and abandoned it after pumping out two short expansion packs. How long's it going to be before Valve abandons this model?

"entertainment as a service."

Urgh!

I'm probably overreacting to this, but those words conjure up the nightmare world that so many game publishers are trying to push us toward where you never stop paying for a game and yet never own it. Because it's not a product, it's a service!

And that's why I see it getting abandoned.

 

[SomeBritishDude]

Does this finally confirm Half Life 3? Will people now stop talking about this Episode 3 now? I doubt it.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

I wish they would have done that with L4D instead of making L4D2. I know they are pretty much the same, but L4D2 is pretty shitty, while L4D was amazing.

Plus this sounds like it would mostly be for PC. I know they said TF2 doesn't get the updates on 360 because Microsoft was requiring them to charge after a certain amount of free stuff...

 

[Hungry Donner]

Shorter developement cycles you say?

Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. I'll believe it when I see it.

 

[XandNobody]

So, no more episodic type games. I see this as a good thing, seeing as they really seem to suck at them anyways.

Oh Episode 3, will I ever get to play you?

 

[teebeeohh]

ehm valve? releasing two games CALLED episodes does make up a phase. especially when you totally missed the point of episodic releases with those.

 

[DTWolfwood]

be nice if he wasn't so damn vague and addressed the 800lb guerrilla in the room. IS EPISODE 3 COMING OUT OR NOT?!

 

[dragongit]

cue trollface Gabe and some text about Episode 3...
*looks at watch*

 

[GeorgW]

They should have realised this a lot quicker. Valve has a way to state the obvious as some new convention. Still good news. Hopefully they'll give up on episodic gaming, they really suck at it! I assume this means they'll skip ep3 and go directly to Half life 3.
And Valve, we want constant Portal 2 updates!!!

 

[Atmos Duality]

It would be nice if Gabe Newell would stop lying/dodging the question and just admit that Episode 3 isn't going to happen.