Dr. Benton Quest
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It'd be a shame if some of their computers were 'lost' in transit...
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Valve moving to new office next May
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cheezcake
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Two fantastic games, the best large scale digital storefront in gaming, pioneering VR gaming technology development.
I'm ok with this.
I am so depressed right now.
LelouchZero
Member
Wow that sounds massive! I wonder what new things they're working on?
The push for SteamVR is really big, I wonder if they're planning on releasing a new game which takes advantage of VR?
The push for SteamVR is really big, I wonder if they're planning on releasing a new game which takes advantage of VR?
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Do they have teleporters between buildings now?
Wow, to this day Civ V still gets so much players eh?
..What do you think the normal Konami is at this point?
What is their Dota 2 and CSGO?
Wow, to this day Civ V still gets so much players eh?
Benjamin1981
Member
So much office space just for a store team...
sono
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Dreams-Visions
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With all this Dota money, they should be able to buy the damn building outright. Fuck renting.
The day you need to worry about Valve is the day they go public and become beholden to shareholders. Until then...we good.
The day you need to worry about Valve is the day they go public and become beholden to shareholders. Until then...we good.
RandomSeed
Member
Bwhahahahahaha!
Don't forget the extra space for Gabe's new blacksmith forge. I also hear George RR Martin is going to rent out an office there so he can really up his output.
Auto-Reply
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How else are you gonna test Half Life 3 efficiently?
This sentiment has been around for so many years. Still waiting for it to happen. If the recent moves in VR are anything to go by, with OpenVR and now the SteamVR tracking opened up with no Licence fee, and the same with Source 2, I don't really know what to tell you.
Doesn't sound closed to me
Only Microsoft could even attempt making PC gaming more 'closed'
Valve isn't evil, just lazy as fuck and only moved into action by money.
RealityCheque
Banned
"Microsoft", the company name you're looking for is "Microsoft" .
Valve is very much near the end of the list of companies for which I'd worry about that. They are not publicly traded, their VR API is open, they just gave away their tracking technology royalty-free, their OS is built on Linux, and most crucially, their client and store succeed because they offer more features and options than any of their competitors.
Gabe and GRRM are probably so good friends GRRM gladly adapted Valve Time.
Ban Puncher
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Floor Nineteen.
Knife Floor.
Knife Floor.
I used it last fall. Took 3 months to get a response that had nothing to do with my issue, but they did manage to answer my reply and fix it a week after that.
Not that that is good or perhaps a recent experience.
Theonik
Member
I heard they are putting the customer service division on floor 3.
It's always funny seeing people who act worried but don't even do 5 minutes of research.
Valve is going to have the most open headset of all 3 expensive headsets, but apparently they're the new Microsoft!
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)
343 industries, ArenaNet, Motiga, Wargaming and Monolith are all within 15 miles of those buildings. The pokemon company is down the street from there too.
Same for NoA and MS headquarters. Bellevue area is very packed with game companies. And then there are a ton in Seattle too.
That new tower they're going in is crazy fancy. I've seen them build it over the past couple years. Great view too.
Does that mean they have a "crowbars den" too?
LUFTRAUSER
Banned
I guess now that Valve can't do the online gambling thing anymore they have to become a real video game company again. Especially since Microsoft seems to be planning an aggressive expansion into the PC gaming market!
I'm excited. I can't wait to see what their future output will be.
I'm excited. I can't wait to see what their future output will be.
I can assure everyone that this is not for game development. Valve quit games because people voted for micro-transactions instead. Valve can't multitask. Gabe needs to manage the Steam OS and avatar skins. The undertaking would be too costly. We wouldn't want those avatar fans to feel abandoned. They are the ones that launched Steam first and foremost, not those sassy Half Life hand me down peasants.
Idle Storm
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Hmm kind of odd. I just toured valves current offices in may as part of a college game developer program. They showed us off a bunch of new installments in the offices that thry just added for "long term office improvements". Guess long term means a year?
Shotgun Kiss
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Somebody accidentally wrote "Half Life 3" on a white board with permanent marker instead of an erasable whiteboard pen, so they had to move out.
Heebie Jeebies
Banned
As dead as HL3.
DalikSkywing
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TRIGGERED
Maiden Voyage
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Civ V is a really good game. Really good.
Chittagong
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Moving in May (Month 5)
to their 2nd major office
5-2
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to their 2nd major office
5-2
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3
TheTylerRob
Member
Remember when we all liked valve?
As a Valve fan since the beginning, I'm not really sure what they do anymore. They must obviously have some big sequels in the queue, but it seems to me they are more miss than hit over the last three or so years. Steamboxes never quite took off, the controller is not so hot, and Steam is kind of stagnating. Disappointing since there was so much innovation at the start. I guess the game developer's utopia they created internally (no management, work on what you want) was counter to innovation in the long run.
