Artifact Announcement Salt (Valve's CCG) - suck my ass Valve, Suck my hole ass!

[Sergeant Politeness]

which are clearly just transparent ways to gain money to fund actually interesting projects.

Boy, it's taken them a minute to release one of those.

They were releasing games on, at most, a two year turnaround up until 2013, when they released Dota 2. Four years ago. The people who wrote Half-Life and Portal are long gone from the company, and the Valve of old left with them. Valve wants to dick around with VR and peripherals and Steamboxes rather than release games now.

I don't exactly blame them, either. In-house games haven't been their primary revenue stream since the Orange Box, I bet. Steam will keep them afloat, no matter what. Quality stops mattering when you have no consequences for failure.

 

[Y2K Baby]

Quality stops mattering when you have no consequences for failure.

The fact that they haven't released a bunch of shit in mass is why I have some faith though. Valve is one of the most employee-friendly videogame companies on the planet and their philsophy of "wait till its right" has been fairly consistent. If they have to stand on a mountain of sperglord money for that, so be it.

 

[The Fool]

I'm pretty unbiased about VR but from what I've seen from it, it's really just a gimmick for now until technology can advance a bit more. If they're trying to actually invest in it, it's going to end badly. I haven't seen anything that was completely VR that didn't immediately sink into obscurity. It's just way too nonviable, you gotta have people buy an expensive headset and peripherals, have enough space to jump around like a spaz, and be physically fit enough to take part in it.

 

[Y2K Baby]

I'm pretty unbiased about VR but from what I've seen from it, it's really just a gimmick for now until technology can advance a bit more. If they're trying to actually invest in it, it's going to end badly. I haven't seen anything that was completely VR that didn't immediately sink into obscurity. It's just way too nonviable, you gotta have people buy an expensive headset and peripherals, have enough space to jump around like a spaz, and be physically fit enough to take part in it.

They said they'd fuck around with it but are 100% willing to abandon ship if it doesn't advance or isn't well-recieved. Again, Valve ain't exactly dumb.