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Valve on Piracy and Episode 3

[Sep 15, 2010, 9:49 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

We ask Gabe Newell about piracy, DRM and Episode Three on PC Gamer interviews the Valve boss along with Erik Johnson and Doug Lombardi. They discuss the upsides of the Steam service in smoothing out customer relations issues and preventing piracy to the extent that they don't give it much thought. They also ask about Half-Life 2: Episode 3, the long-lost final chapter in the Half-Life 2 series. Gabe responds with silence when asked about it twice, and when pressed says: "I understand, and I have to not say anything."

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Re: Valve on Piracy and Episode 3

Sep 16, 2010, 20:44

Bhruic

The "sense of entitlement" garbage is a common tactic used by anyone who wants to deflect anything negative said about a developer they like (or work for) back to the person saying the terrible, horrible things Total bullshit. I don't particularily like Valve. HL2 was horribly overrated. They've totally fucked up the whole "episodes" issue. They screwed people over by releasing L4D2 so quickly and not supporting L4D1. I'm not trying to defend them in the slightest. If what you'd done is come in here and say they were making an idiotic business decision, I might have agreed with you. I might not have, because neither of us actually knows the situation with their HL development, so hey, they might actually be doing the right thing. But I certainly wouldn't have an issue with someone who thought so. What I do have an issue with is people who insist that the developers owe them information. And yes, there are a lot of people who do that, especially on this particular website. you are now displaying a rather unbecoming arrogance by deigning to tell me what I feel Yeah, I'm totally arrogant because I actually quoted what you said. If you didn't actually mean what you said, you shouldn't have said it. It's the same with Half Life. The series has been left to rot while Valve decides which business model to try next. Meanwhile all of the fans are left struggling to remember why they were fans in the first place. Again, total bullshit. If Valve made a big HL announcement tomorrow, all of those fans would be all over it. And the reason people were fans in the first place, is presumably because they actually liked the games. That's not going to change simply because Valve isn't hyping their next game in the way that you seem to think they should.

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Comment [quote="Bhruic"Sep 16, 2010, 20:44]q[The "sense of entitlement" garbage is a common tactic used by anyone who wants to deflect anything negative said about a developer they like (or work for) back to the person saying the terrible, horrible things]q Total bullshit. I don't particularily like Valve. HL2 was horribly overrated. They've totally fucked up the whole "episodes" issue. They screwed people over by releasing L4D2 so quickly and not supporting L4D1. I'm not trying to defend them in the slightest. If what you'd done is come in here and say they were making an idiotic business decision, I might have agreed with you. I might not have, because neither of us actually knows the situation with their HL development, so hey, they might actually be doing the right thing. But I certainly wouldn't have an issue with someone who thought so. What I i[do]i have an issue with is people who insist that the developers owe them information. And yes, there are a lot of people who do that, especially on this particular website. q[you are now displaying a rather unbecoming arrogance by deigning to tell me what I feel]q Yeah, I'm totally arrogant because I actually quoted what you said. If you didn't actually mean what you said, you shouldn't have said it. q[ It's the same with Half Life. The series has been left to rot while Valve decides which business model to try next. Meanwhile all of the fans are left struggling to remember why they were fans in the first place. ]q Again, total bullshit. If Valve made a big HL announcement tomorrow, all of those fans would be all over it. And the reason people were fans in the first place, is presumably because they actually liked the games. That's not going to change simply because Valve isn't hyping their next game in the way that i[you]i seem to think they should. [/quote]

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