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Valve's Director of Business has left [GAF Rumor: TF2 Art Lead, SFM Head Gone, More]
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Alexios
Cores, shaders and BIOS oh my!
This likely has nothing to do with the hardware side, which is a side nobody so far loves Valve for as it's been nonexistent so it is no big loss if their plans for that changed (though if they've been scrapped I guess they've lost whatever they had invested).
Who ever said it's okay to post "fuck Origins"? People can post constructive and reasoned criticism of whatever company or service they want, whether it's Origin or Valve or whatever. Your post, however, was neither constructive nor reasoned.
ElectricBlanketFire
Member
What are the chances we'll get any sort of comments from Valve regarding these stories?
Zuhzuhzombie!!
Member
Maybe Gabe woke up and realized that his Steambox/Linux utopia ain't happenin.
They amount of downplay Steambox received after that miniPC reveal they did a few weeks back was already pretty surprising.
They amount of downplay Steambox received after that miniPC reveal they did a few weeks back was already pretty surprising.
balladofwindfishes
Member
lol/10
GoddyofAus
Banned
I think people might be trying a bit too hard to sensationalize this. Lets at least wait to hear from Valve before we start giving News Ltd. tipoffs for their next blazing headline.
My understanding was the Greenlight is taking a long time, isn't as automated as they hoped. I can't imagine it fully replacing actual humans any time soon.
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
And one that is probably going to shift how indie devs interact with Steam.
diffusionx
Gold Member
Sounds like the Steambox is no longer.... full steam ahead...
yea i got nothing
No, 6% of the workforce is actually quite a bit. If they are centered in one or two divisions, it means that the company is changing course.
yea i got nothing
Concept17 said:
No, 6% of the workforce is actually quite a bit. If they are centered in one or two divisions, it means that the company is changing course.
Probably, but considering how little we tend to hear about this kind of stuff at Valve, a whole heck of a lot is happening at once.
balladofwindfishes
Member
it's nice they don't have stocks to worry about. Today would have caused a plummet in them for reasons nobody really knows yet.
shinobi602
Member
That would make me think wtf Valve is doing so incompetently to where so much money is being wasted. I also can't imagine why these 2 figureheads would be fired/resigned after working with the company for so long if they didn't "fit in" anymore.
ElectricBlanketFire
Member
That's what I thought.
Interfectum
Member
"Other people get to troll stuff so I'm going to do it too!" is not a good reason, IMO. I don't set policy here and I rarely post in Origin or UPlay threads. But, without fail, I see you pull your stunt in virtually every Valve thread. To top it all off you seem like a fairly decent poster otherwise.
soundscream
Member
Zuhzuhzombie!!
Member
Glass Rebel
Member
Maybe they're going back to their Origin and trying to reinvent how uPlay. Please GOG, let it be this.
Fragamemnon
Member
sell your couriers it's all over.
seriously though, I think that valve itself actually changed some time ago, and it's just now that we are seeing some people inside the company realize this change. I personally am more than satisified in their continued evolution towards a services and platform provider first and game developer second, but I can see how some people wouldn't be happy with that.
seriously though, I think that valve itself actually changed some time ago, and it's just now that we are seeing some people inside the company realize this change. I personally am more than satisified in their continued evolution towards a services and platform provider first and game developer second, but I can see how some people wouldn't be happy with that.
cutting costs in places where they don't see current or future financial gains it seems
Stallion Free
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Jeri wasn't even a figurehead at Valve.
For a man who likes to slow cook ideas, Gabe sure changed his mind pretty quickly on this one then. Still thinking some kind of partnership will be announced soon.
Or not.
Again, not necessarily a bad thing. It's confirmed to be a restructuring of priorities of some sort. Usually shakeups like this are exactly what a company needed, which is why they happen in the first place. They're almost always positives.
We're being sarcastic because we don't actually know.
GoddyofAus
Banned
That we hear of. We all know how notoriously secretive Valve are. They've probably sacked plenty of people over their history that hasn't even registered a blip on the doppler.
Wouldn't a hardware team, an android team, and a director of business (relations with third parties) actually all fit tremendously well with a service and platform provider though?
balladofwindfishes
Member
they don't have shareholders, all their reports are private
The truth is that nobody knows.
The indication and speculation is that Valve is reversing course on their hardware initiative, so we may never see the fabled "Steambox".
Supposedly Valve has exactly one shareholder: Gabe Newell.
Glass Rebel
Member
OrangeYouGlad
Banned
Well his company was just making some weird and unnecessary decisions lately (Greenlight,Steambox) If this is Gaben stopping that before it affect and change the company then it's actually good move.
dark_prinny
Banned
I agree.
les papillons sexuels
Banned
no, but i definetly want it.
diffusionx
Gold Member
Except Newell was talking up Steambox not that long ago - last month. It's not like some out-of-control underlings were running around off-script. So maybe they've thought things over and decided to change course.
If I had to speculate, I'd say the lukewarm CES reception might have made them rethink plans.
Unless Gabe was behind the Steambox & Greenlight decisions and they didn't play out like he was expecting so he killed them quickly.
Tokyo Rain
Member
Uh this is the company that publicly stated they hire talent and then let them decide on their own what they want to go work on. They hire talent and not for a particular position. That's weird. A sizable portion of their staff would be labelled "researcher" anywhere else. Free money! They also have said they have no managers or anything like that.
NullPointer
Member
As they don't have shareholders or a stock price to placate, it's unlikely that they'll say anything until it's ready for the public. There's no reason for them to talk about any initiatives until they're ready for consumers.
Unless you means leaks?