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[Kade]

His departure was rumoured when Erik Wolpaw left but that was because he was tagged in Erik's Facebook post about his last day. Now it's for real.

https://twitter.com/ValveTime/status/872247137937096705

https://twitter.com/chetfaliszek/status/872246521110122508

Some of his credits:

That's pretty much all or most of the well known members of the writing team gone now.

 

[Geek]

Who's gonna be funny at Valve now?

 

[Lightning_Roller]

Oh wow, didn't expect that.

 

[SoulUnison]

I can't imagine being a writer at current-day Valve was a very fulfilling job.

 

[CassidyIzABeast]

Is this the final nail in the Valve single player coffin?

 

[thecosmicfly]

So hold on... are you telling me there's a slight possibility that this might impact the development of Half Life 3?

 

[kadotsu]

Hope he returns to the games industry now. I like his style.

 

[labaronx]

So hold on... are you telling me there's a slight possibility that this might impact the development of Half Life 3?

Sadly it might be time for us to move on

 

[CalamityPixel]

Valve are wasting talent.

 

[Vital Tundra]

So there goes valves funny bone. Jesus. I guess people were bound to start leaving when there is shit to actually do aside from the occasional TF2 bit.

 

[Tagyhag]

I wonder if the wrote The Lab, if he did, Valve lost their primary humor.

 

[Syf]

Seems most of their top writing talent has left.

 

[Jarmel]

Is this the final nail in the Valve single player coffin?

That nail happened long ago.

 

[Hazmat]

If I had that kind of talent and resume I'd want to work someplace making games too.

 

[Plesiades]

Steve Jaros is still there.

 

[beelzebozo]

the past decade has been pretty heinous for valve creatively. ten years ago they had this influx of hilarious and great writing talent and i thought for sure it would never end. or at least produce more than two games.

 

[Vital Tundra]

If I had that kind of talent and resume I'd want to work someplace making games too.

Exactly. He's probably dying to write for an actual narrative.

 

[Deleted member 102362]

So after the departure of Valve writers Marc Laidlaw, Erik Wolpaw, and Chet Faliszek, I figured Jay Pinkerton's exit would only be a matter of time. Best of luck to all of them with their future endeavors.

 

[Izcarielo]

I would have never ever imagined that Valve would end like this. So anticlimactic. It feels like a bad joke honestly.
Do we even know what is Valve doing appart from DOTA and managing the store?

 

[Robot Pants]

I would have never ever imagined that Valve would end like this. So anticlimactic. It feels like a bad joke honestly.

Money corrupts

 

[sixteen-bit]

Onward and upward

 

[Syf]

I would have never ever imagined that Valve would end like this. So anticlimactic. It feels like a bad joke honestly.
Do we even know what is Valve doing appart from DOTA and managing the store?

They did say they're working on three games.

 

[Cubas]

It is so sad to see this happening to Valve.

 

[UnemployedVillain]

They did say they're working on three games.

Gabe says a lot of things. I'll believe it when I see them, and they aren't just DOTA2, TF2 and CS:GO rebuilt on Source Engine 3

 

[Lactose_Intolerant]

I would have never ever imagined that Valve would end like this. So anticlimactic. It feels like a bad joke honestly.
Do we even know what is Valve doing appart from DOTA and managing the store?

Supporting huge money making games?

 

[Mivey]

Money corrupts

How are they corrupt when they just want to do different things? People should stop being angry at Valve because they don't churn out single-player games anymore.

 

[Dyle]

They did say they're working on three games.

CS:GO, DOTA 2, and TF2 are three games, they just happen to be the same three games they've been working on years

 

[Alexander DeLarge]

Gabe says a lot of things. I'll believe it when I see them, and they aren't just DOTA2 and CS:GO rebuilt on Source Engine 3

We'll be seeing them at Steam Dev Days 2017.

 

[Drencrom]

At this point I'm happy to see talent leave Valve for greener pastures.

Being a writer at a company like Valve must be creatively soul-crushing.

 

[Crono27]

How are they corrupt when they just want to do different things? People should stop being angry at Valve because they don't churn out single-player games anymore.

What is this logic u speak of...

 

[jayu26]

How are they corrupt when they just want to do different things? People should stop being angry at Valve because they don't churn out single-player games anymore.

Can we be upset that they have stopped making new games altogether?

 

[Loomer]

Is this the final nail in the Valve single player coffin?

The coffin's been buried, hell, the corpse ain't looking so fresh these days.

 

[Creaking]

How much of Valve's original talent is left?

 

[Evil Monkey DTT]

Valve is a shell of its former self as a company to it's fans. It's just a store at this point, I couldn't imagine anything sadder I'm the eyes of gamers.

 

[Ploid 3.0]

So hold on... are you telling me there's a slight possibility that this might impact the development of Half Life 3?

This will actually speed up development of HL3. Before he left it was at 0.00000002304% per year, now it's estimated to make progress at 0.0000000235973% per year. That's quite the improvement.

 

[MUnited83]

I would have never ever imagined that Valve would end like this. So anticlimactic. It feels like a bad joke honestly.
Do we even know what is Valve doing appart from DOTA and managing the store?

Working on full-fledged development of three games.

Can we be upset that they have stopped making new games altogether?

They haven't stopped.

 

[jayu26]

They haven't stopped.

Prove it.

 

[Intheflorsh]

Working at Valve has to be a terrible experience for driven creative people that actually want to accomplish things.

 

[Syf]

Prove it.

They already told the public. But I can see that's not going to stop certain people in here from insisting they're lying anyway.

 

[Compsiox]

Prove it.

Dude. Please.

 

[Yearsoflurking]

dream is dead guys

 

[Banderdash]

I wonder if he's going back to Cracked?
Their Editor In Chief just finished up...

 

[Iced]

I had no idea he worked for Valve. I frequented his site in the mid-2000s. He had some solid material on there.

 

[MUnited83]

Prove it.

The onus is on you to prove they aren't. They already said they have three new titles in development. Are you saying they are lying?

 

[Bluth54]

Prove it.

https://www.polygon.com/virtual-reality/2017/2/10/14580932/valve-is-working-on-three-full-vr-games

 

[Zia]

Prove it.

They have a HUGE update on the way for Team Fortress 2, the biggest ever, after they left the game's matchmaking broken for an entire year and without a content update. Also, they just released a really half-baked campaign for CS:GO and Dota 2 gets updated with cosmetics literally all the time, so back off buddy.

 

[Lord Error]

Oh wow, didn't expect that.

lol

 

[Diddy Kong]

It's a good thing they already finished Half Life 3.... right guys?

 

[Maxinas]

Valve doesn't develop games anymore so not surprising.

 

[ymgve]

Working at Valve has to be a terrible experience for driven creative people that actually want to accomplish things.

Zachtronics dude was there for ten months, then quit. And after a few months of freedom he released Shenzhen IO.