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Doug Lombardi did not leave Valve. Stop hyperventilating and go read a book.

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gdt

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BloodMoney said:
uhhhhhhh. WTF is going on with Valve. They haven't released a monumental game since Half-Life 2... my fear is they are now totally focused on Steam, and don't give two shits about the Half-Life community.
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Portal/Portal 2? Left 4 Dead/2? DOTA 2 isn't up my alley but that'll be huge too. TF2?
 
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Jb

Member
Salvor.Hardin said:
Are people actually freaking out over Lombardi? If his job has no influence over game development, and his departure just signals a shift in relationships between himself and others at Valve, shouldn't we just leave it at that?

What's with the over reaction??
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You seem awefully well informed.
The reason people are reacting this way is because a bunch of people have left the company abruptly and they've been stonewalling the press about it. Of course gamers are going to try to fill in the blanks.
 
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hey_it's_that_dog

benevolent sexism
Gabe has been talking a lot lately about leveraging systems and economies (as opposed to individuals) to produce desirable outcomes. It's possible that Valve no longer needs a human being to do most of their marketing.
 
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JaseC

gave away the keys to the kingdom.
gdt said:
Portal/Portal 2? Left 4 Dead/2? DOTA 2 isn't up my alley but that'll be huge too. TF2?
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By "monumental" I assume he means a concerted, many-year project... which Portal 2 fits nicely, actually.
 
Jackben

Jackben

bitch I'm taking calls.
StuBurns said:
It's true that his departure is more like the White House press secretary leaving, which no one would care about, but it's following a bunch of other departures.
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I'd disagree with the first part of that. I think it's less about his actual job title and more about him as a personality and driving force at Valve. Lombardi has always been synonymous with Valve in a lot of their efforts right next to Gabe. I believe him leaving is significant enough to say something big is going on behind the scenes.
 
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StuBurns

Banned
WinFonda said:
Can't help but feel company morale is insanely low. They don't have the same drive for developing games anymore. Just about everything they work on is in development hell / limbo. Maybe they have set a standard that is too high for themselves internally. Valve/Steam needs less worship as a digital platform and more tough love criticism as a games developer.
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People can't line up quick enough to suck off Dota 2, and Portal 2 wasn't even two years ago at this point. Valve's games are fine.
 
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Joe Shlabotnik

Banned
Felix Lighter said:
I don't want to be alarmist and I don't want to overreact but when you have so much invested in a companies service, it's hard not to get a little worried when you hear about major shake ups like we've heard about recently at Valve without an obvious cause to point to.
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It's true, but on the other hand there's no evidence Valve isn't still raking in money hand over fist.

What's troubling is that it looks a bit like Valve may be bailing on in-house game development. But there's no chance that Valve itself or Steam is having any existential concerns.
 
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SteveWinwood

Member
Jackben said:
I'd disagree with the first part of that. I think it's less about his actual job title and more about him as a personality and driving force at Valve. Lombardi has always been synonymous with Valve in a lot of their efforts right next to Gabe. I believe him leaving is significant enough to say something big is going on behind the scenes.
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Considering many in this thread didn't know who he was, but certainly know of valve and gabe, I would say you're selling him a little strong.
 
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Guri

Member
Phew.

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https://twitter.com/mroahrig/status/306085822199906305/photo/1
 
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ghst

thanks for the laugh
valve falling apart
windows 9 is touch only
blizzard going console exclusive
sony bringing out a machine that beasts any PC

show's over guys.
 
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alphaNoid

Banned
Damn Valve is falling apart. Doug is pretty much a founding stone of that company and huge part of Steams success.

enzo_gt said:
Could you imagine if Valve buyout was announced at MS' conference? The Internet would collapse.
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I would love to see the meltdowns lol
 
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metsallica

Member
Uh, he's still listed on their employee page (and they were pretty quick to purge that a few weeks ago). Why doesn't someone email him?
 
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shinobi602

Member
Looks like it's not true. What a weird way to put your work history. I don't know anyone who puts the date they started up to the current month. Everyone just says "Present".
 
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Baron_Calamity

Member
We need to create a list of who or what positions are no longer at Valve.

Doug Lombardi - Marketing
Tom Leonard - Source 2 developer
Jeri Ellsworth - Hardware Engineer
25 employees in Hardware and Android development
A bunch of people in character design

What change can we piece together from these layoffs?
 
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DaBuddaDa

Member
Don't ever use Linked-in as confirmation. It's a horrible website that people frequently use incorrectly. Many times, instead of "Date - Present" being displayed, if the user enters the data in the wrong field, it will show "Date - <current month/year>," which looks like an end date but actually isn't. For example, if Doug doesn't touch his Linkedin account, on March 1st that entry will say: "January 2000 - March 2013."
 
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EatChildren

Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Firehead said:
Alright, what the hell, Valve? Gabe, you got some 'splainin' to do.

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Oh, yay!
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Yeeaaaah suuuuure.

Typed by Gabe Newell as Lombardi bleeds out under the desk.
 
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