Gabe has said that the community is the best at creating content. Greenlight was a failure but he still wants to allow groups set up their own storefronts (like a NeoGAF store). Visual content is created by users for stuff like TF2 and Dota 2 now. I think a lot of people at Valve were left redundant because of this.
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Valve's Director of Business has left [GAF Rumor: TF2 Art Lead, SFM Head Gone, More]
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Gabe has said that the community is the best at creating content. Greenlight was a failure but he still wants to allow groups set up their own storefronts (like a NeoGAF store). Visual content is created by users for stuff like TF2 and Dota 2 now. I think a lot of people at Valve were left redundant because of this.
shinobi602
Member
I can see firing a few people maybe, laying off dozens of employees, firing your senior hardware engineer, having your director of business leave the company, your SFM lead and TF2 art lead gone too, all around the same time, doesn't seem very normal to me.
CoffeeJanitor
Member
Holy shit, people are overreacting in here. Valve just laid off 25 people (maybe they were bad workers) and one guy left the company. Come on people.
My friends uncle works at valve and he told him valve just filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy yesterday.
I'm literally in tears. Valve was my favorite team of hat makers. Sad we will never see hl3 either.
RIP in peice valve
1994-2013
i never got to tell steam i love them 5ever
You own nothing!
Dude, come the fuck on. He's trolling.
It's no more ridiculous than most of the speculation, I like it.
You don't have to be so violent... I was telling the guy that Valve isn't dead but they are reorganizing in a chapter 11.
Well leave it at that, you don't have to be so violent about it.
If you didn't notice I said Troll or Not? at the top....
GoddyofAus
Banned
If this somewhat overstated drama means Valve is doomed, then the great gaming crash of the 21st century has arrived in force and we should all prepare our sphincters for a very rough time.
grimshawish
Banned
Read the last two pages.
hidden offline
Neo Member
I can't wait to find out what has caused this shake up.
Zuhzuhzombie!!
Member
Because the sources on the net say Hardware and Android dev was hit the most and the specific person we know of was a hardware engineer working on transposing kbm input to a couch comfortable input method.
Quick. Anyone know what J Allard's been up to?
Ace Harding
Member
I can't wait for the great, well-researched story about this
two years from now.
Lionel Mandrake
Member
What the fuck?!
Which is weird so they are not aching for money.
He's going to be playing a numbers-based puzzle game?
Joe Shlabotnik
Banned
Of all the people not firing you today, Gabe is the MOST not firing you.
civilstrife
Member
Valve is going first party.
Microsoft first party
Robot Pants
Member
I completely made that up. Sorry guys :/
Can Crusher
Banned
Valve is riding cash folks, they aren't going under and neither are they getting bought.
Reason enough to quit gaming forever.
dark_prinny
Banned
les papillons sexuels
Banned
gabe is just going back to his roots.
dave is ok
aztek is ok
Obvious troll. Come on man.
Backfoggen
Banned
RIP Valve.
Not cool bro, I have 200+ games tied up into Steam that's a lot of money to lose if something did happen.
Considering they are a private company we have no idea how well they are doing financially.
Half Life 3 being a PC and Durango exclusive would be pretty hilarious.
Interfectum
Member
PhoenixDark
Banned
Is there a chance Nintendo can step in and make Valve a first party? Seems like it would make a lot of sense.
Hey, genius. They've fired some of the most talented, " name" employees in their stable. Read the thread. Something is very wrong.
Not normal but it's starting to seem like whatever change they want to make is meeting some heavy resistance with other people and they're leaving. That's my guess anyway. As long as steam isn't going to be disrupted I couldn't care less really. Their games never meant anything to me anyway.
Visualante2
Member
Source Film maker isn't finished yet ._.
Crazy prediction: Valve splitting from Steam.
Crazy prediction: Valve splitting from Steam.
Haha.
These were my exact words.
dark_prinny
Banned
Are you his Financial Manager?