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Doug Lombardi did not leave Valve. Stop hyperventilating and go read a book.
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The Grim Heaper
Member
Wow, this is crazy.
Yup
He's traditionally been the public face of the company when discussing their games, back when Valve took a more traditional approach to marketing and PR.
SteveWinwood
Member
He's the marketing dude.
This is big news because he's been there forever not because his job is relatively important.
robovanburen
Member
Isn't it possible he just, you know, quit? 13 years is a long time to work anywhere.
dragonelite
Member
Ken Masters
Banned
why are people linking him to Half-life's future?
dave is ok
aztek is ok
There is only one explanation. Gaben raged at all of them so hard for feeding in Dota 2, they all quit.
Joe Shlabotnik
Banned
When Valve says "50% - 75% off", they mean it.
slightconfuse
Banned
Everyone leaving epic and Valve weird things going on
Might not be all that dramatic, maybe he got bored?
I don't see Valve getting bought (they don't need the capital and are privately owned) but maybe they are looking into a merger with a strategic partner (hardware prehaps?) that meant the staff leaving were obsolete and didn't fancy another role.
I don't see Valve getting bought (they don't need the capital and are privately owned) but maybe they are looking into a merger with a strategic partner (hardware prehaps?) that meant the staff leaving were obsolete and didn't fancy another role.
quickwhips
Member
Looks like steam box is causing destruction at Valve. JK I wonder what is really happening?
Pureauthor
Member
One day Icefrog will get fired/leave, and we won't even know
SteveWinwood
Member
Because over reacting is fun.
Joe Shlabotnik
Banned
Not along with a bunch of other major people in the last month.
R
Rösti
Unconfirmed Member
These records are updated frequently but I do not know if Doug Lombardi has ever been on the following. Regardless, these are the current head honchos at Valve:
Source: http://www.sos.wa.gov/corps/search_detail.aspx?ubi=602290773
Yeah, this current situation is worrying. While Valve isn't obligated in any way to respond to this, it would be nice to know what has triggered these resignations and whatnot. If we aren't going to know more about this in the coming days perhaps they'll share more information come GDC in March.
Source: http://www.sos.wa.gov/corps/search_detail.aspx?ubi=602290773
Yeah, this current situation is worrying. While Valve isn't obligated in any way to respond to this, it would be nice to know what has triggered these resignations and whatnot. If we aren't going to know more about this in the coming days perhaps they'll share more information come GDC in March.
Depending on the person, it's either a joke because he put a gag on Episode Three/Half-Life 3 talk circa the release of Left 4 Dead or a genuine overreaction.
Ken Masters
Banned
thanks
The perfect Dark
Banned
Half Life was already fucked 5-6 years ago
I doubt that we will see a new Half Life in the next 10 years
BloodMoney
Banned
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.
Also known as back when they actually had marketing and PR.
If Lombardi's gone, I'm pretty sure Valve is exiting the development of new games. I mean, CS GO was already outsourced in large parts and almost all of their games are based on fan made mods anyway (except Half-Life, obviously).
They have Dota, they have Team Fortress and maybe that's enough for them. Pretty sure those games are way more profitable than i.e. Portal 2.
Salvor.Hardin
Banned
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??
What's with the over reaction??
Demiurge and TimeGate are slaving away as we speak.
Various Artists
Banned
Well this is interesting. I never met him in person but he seemed like a good dude. When HL2 came out my younger brother sent Doug an Email saying that he thought HL2 was great and it rocked. Doug actually wrote back to him and made my brothers day. I always admired Valve for being that customer friendly.
Good luck with that.
Have you seen the majority of the threads lately? EVERYTHING is a over reaction!
He's been there almost since the beginning and he's been the public face of the company next to Gaben?
ComputerMKII
Banned
What the hell is happening at Valve?
Jackben
bitch I'm taking calls.
Make no mistake, the overreactions are about Half-Life, Steambox and Valve going under as a company. NOT at how significant Lombardi's possible departure is.
He has been a major figure at Valve and was right there with Gabe since the beginning of Steam when Viviendi was still trying to pull the strings. I highly doubt he was fired, he likely left of his own volition.
His departure along with all the others marks a significant shift in the personality, talent and driving force at Valve.
He has been a major figure at Valve and was right there with Gabe since the beginning of Steam when Viviendi was still trying to pull the strings. I highly doubt he was fired, he likely left of his own volition.
His departure along with all the others marks a significant shift in the personality, talent and driving force at Valve.
Phoenician_Viking
Banned
My guess is that there´s a lot of infighting inside Valve because of the Steam Box.
Goldenroad
Member
I've said it before and I'll continue to say it until April 26; Valve is working with Microsoft on Durango. They will be the main digital distributor for games on 720. Of course it's pure speculation based solely on my own intuition, but Valve is definitely shifting directions.
This wouldn't have happened if Doug Lombardi had 8GB GDDR5 RAM.
Felix Lighter
Member
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.
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.
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.
ComputerMKII
Banned
After what Gabe said about Windows 8?