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[Bluth54]

It was announced on August 3rd that Valve will be moving to a newer, much larger office in May of 2017.

Kemper Development Company (KDC), confirms today that Valve has leased 225,000 square feet of prime office space in the new office tower at Lincoln Square’s 1.5 million square foot expansion site. With the lease of floors 11 – 19, the company will encompass nearly one third of the total office space available in the new tower which features 710,000 square feet of Class A space.

The move to Lincoln Square from its current location represents an increase of approximately 100,000 square feet of space. “This lease puts Valve on the list of the largest companies in terms of office space in downtown Bellevue,” says Melby.

Valve is scheduled to move into the new space May of 2017.

That's a big increase in the amount of space that's going to be leased by Valve. It seems like they may be planning a good sized expansion of the company.

 

[kulapik]

And Half Life 3 will still not be in development.

Hopefully Steam Support will stop being shit, though.

 

[lucebuce12]

Gabe Newell: "We need more hats."

 

[Hasney]

Ramping up for something. HL3 or a good customer service department?

Pahahaha. The latter is even more ulikely than HL3.

 

[Sir_Crocodile]

this is all to do steam support and half life 3 dev hires OF COURSE

Spoiler

NOT

-edit

god damnit Hasney. DELETE

 

[Hasney]

Actually, would be funny if they just needed the extra space for more people to dick around with room-scale VR.

this is all to do steam support and half life 3 dev hires OF COURSE

Spoiler

NOT

-edit

god damnit Hasney. DELETE

 

[Jezbollah]

"prime office space"

we spending that compendium cheddar.

 

[artsi]

Maybe they just wanted a larger Vive play area.

 

[Theonik]

Will they rename the street to '3 Valve Way'?

 

[AzureSkies]

Maybe they just wanted a larger Vive play area.

this is the depressing truth, isn't it?

 

[ShadowOwl]

Maybe they just wanted a larger Vive play area.

Maybe they have all their employees now working in a virtual reality office. They need space for all those acoustically isolated boxes.

 

[BibiMaghoo]

 

[Mivey]

Will they rename the street to '3 Valve Way'?

It would be "10 Valve Way" in ternary. Clearly Valve has no 3 in their numeral system.

 

[Nudull]

100,000 feet. Companies always give it their all, 100%. If we take that out...

000

III

3

...Oh my god. o.o

 

[Theonik]

It would be "11 Valve Way" in ternary. Clearly Valve has no 3 in their numeral system.

That's 4. Perhaps you mean binary!

 

[Mivey]

That's 4. Perhaps you mean binary!

Corrected it. But thanks.

 

[MineralCraver420]

Ramping up for something. HL3 or a good customer service department?

Pahahaha. The latter is even more ulikely than HL3.

They're ramping up for

Spoiler

becoming fully focused on CS:GO and DOTA 2

Seriously, fuck Valve. They're the western Konami at this point.

 

[maquiladora]

the company will encompass nearly one third of the total office space available in the new tower

nearly one third of the total office space

one third

third

 

[ShadowOwl]

Seriously, fuck Valve. They're the western Konami at this point.

 

[Fret]

They're ramping up for becoming fully focused on CS:GO and DOTA 2

Seriously, fuck Valve. They're the western Konami at this point.

millions of people play and love those games buddy

 

[Roshin]

It's coming.

Burn the heathens, Gaben. I never stopped believing.

 

[Bitch Pudding]

 

[fantomena]

More space needed for customer support amirite!

 

[Tovarisc]

millions of people play and love those games buddy

Now they only need reboot Team Fortress and L4D series and they will have 4 huge games in their hands.

 

[SchrodingerC]

Ramping up for something. HL3 or a good customer service department?

Pahahaha. The latter is even more ulikely than HL3.

Good customer support should be mandatory considering their platform, but that would require Valve to break their principles and to give enough of a shit.

 

[Lucreto]

Gabe needs a bigger money vault. He is upgrading to a Scrooge McDuck size.

 

[robotrock]

just gotta wheel the desk over there

 

[SpaceWolf]

We're all going to be dead before Half Life 3 gets announced, aren't we?

 

[Forkball]

They need all that space for the casino.

 

[tioslash]

We're all going to be dead before Half Life 3 gets announced, aren't we?

Probably. Which is sad. :/

 

[jediyoshi]

They're ramping up for

Spoiler

becoming fully focused on CS:GO and DOTA 2

Seriously, fuck Valve. They're the western Konami at this point.

..What do you think the normal Konami is at this point?

What is their Dota 2 and CSGO?

 

[AcademicSaucer]

Hopefully they wouldn't lose the Half Life 3 source code while moving

 

[Hasney]

just gotta wheel the desk over there

They should do that instead of a moving van.

 

[Bluth54]

Now they only need reboot Team Fortress and L4D series and they will have 4 huge games in their hands.

Team Fortress isn't going to get a reboot, TF2 is still the third most played game on Steam, has a thriving economy and has recently had updates designed to increase the playerbase by adding both casual and competitive matchmaking. They're trying to grow TF2's playerbase.


However every rumor and leak we've gotten out of Valve seems to suggest that Left 4 Dead 3 will be the first new game we get on Source 2.

 

[dh4niel]

They need more space for servers to store all those god awful Steam Greenlight games.

 

[GrayChild]

Hopefully they wouldn't lose the Half Life 3 source code while moving

That would imply there is some work done on Half-Life 3 already.

 

[Visualante2]

Maybe they can outsource office cleaning to the community in exchange for Steam profile badges.

 

[Bluth54]

They should do that instead of a moving van.

Valve doesn't need moving Vans they got sword vans.

 

[Vigilant Walrus]

They're ramping up for

Spoiler

becoming fully focused on CS:GO and DOTA 2

Seriously, fuck Valve. They're the western Konami at this point.

What the hell are you talking about? So because they have not announced anything in a while, your entitled ass have to make these whiny shitposts?


Valves primary income is Steam. They said more than half a decade ago that they were transistioning to being a multiplayer focused company. Many people still play L4D, L4D2 and TF2 as well. Saying that they are fully focused on CSGO and DOTA2? Ignorant horseshit.

 

[RealityCheque]

Extra space to play virtual hacky-sack on the vive.

 

[SJRB]

It was announced on August 3rd that Valve

It was announced on August 3rd

August 3rd

3

 

[dalin80]

New offices: 90% hat closets.

 

[veloxStrix]

This is right by Bungie, isn't it? Like literally right by them?

 

[Bluth54]

New offices: 90% hat closets.

Valve has a hat wall at their current office. They aren't going to downgrade to hat closets.

 

[Pie and Beans]

Hope when they turn up theres a bunch of newly hired managers waving spike bats and saying "fun times over".

 

[Roshin]

All these hat jokes were hilarious years ago.

 

[LiK]

Someone take a pic of Gabe moving all his knives please.

 

[CypherSignal]

This is right by Bungie, isn't it? Like literally right by them?

Well, they're about a block away already.

I want to say there's one other major studio in that area of Bellevue, as well, but I can't remember what it is. I know ArenaNet is a couple km down the highway, so that's not who I'm thinking of.

(also I feel like Sucker Punch's location is wrong; I coulda sworn they were in the same building as Valve...that's just what Google Maps shows)

 

[Hasney]

All these hat jokes were hilarious years ago.

Exactly, they're timeless.

Well, they're about a block away already.

I want to say there's one other major studio in that area of Bellevue, as well, but I can't remember what it is. I know ArenaNet is a couple km down the highway, so that's not who I'm thinking of.

(also I feel like Sucker Punch's location is wrong; I coulda sworn they were in the same building as Valve...that's just what Google Maps shows)

See, they can wheel those desks over. They could surf them over even.

 

[AJ_Wings]

How is Valve's customer support lately? It's been a while since I used it and they promised improvements, so any recent experience from anybody in gaf?