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Valve's PSN Comments Disgusting ; Steam PS3 Campaign Opens

Justin D. of Neocrisis writes: "Only a few days after Gearbox's Randy Pitchford made comments about how Valve's stubbornness about PS3 development is only an excuse, it seems like Valve's answer to my question of whether they would prove either Randy or HipHopGamer right seems to sadly be the former answer.

CVG recently conducted an interview with Left 4 Dead project lead Chet Faliszek, and he made a comment that no one should ever make in the game industry about ANY community of gamers. This was aimed at the PS3 gamers, insulting them yet again by saying, "In hooking up with your friends and the community aspects, I think the Xbox 360 is head and shoulders above the PS3. The 360 and PC are on par, right?", and that Left 4 Dead 2 will be exclusive for that reason alone.

Never mind the fact that the community in Uncharted 2 seems to disprove Chet right "cheir", but it's also an amusing claim when you look at what the 360 community is made up of sometimes, and why Chet couldn't be any further from the truth, and should be fired for the comments. Meanwhile, we're going to do our part to make sure that Valve realizes their mistake...on Steam."
Updates:
The Steam campaign is at: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/fansforps3

You will have to copy and paste it for now, since external links are for some reason being appended by a Neocrisis link and we're not sure why. Owner has been contacted and we'll update when it has been fixed.
darkpower - contributor
Published: 62 days 4 hours ago | Article | PlayStation 3 | Xbox 360 | PC
 
 

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1 acere | 62 days 4 hours ago - deleted by mod -
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solar - 62 days 4 hours ago
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so there is a ps3 support group on Valve's Steam service. ok.
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Morituri - 62 days 4 hours ago
3 - Sincerely, from the heart, Valve can shove it.
I'm really tired of their arrogant comments. Luckily, the PS3 library is such that we do not really need their titles to have a well rounded diet of games. Certain American developers need to take a tip from their Japanese counterparts and conduct their interractions with the public with more class. I for one will never give these obnoxious people any of my money.
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Schobeleth - 62 days 3 hours ago
3.1 - Agree wholeheartedly
You see this when you compare Turn 10 and Polyphony Digital. Turn 10 was and still is talking a massive amount of trash talk while Gran Turismo 5 isn't even out yet. They might be sorry if it comes out shining even more brightly than Forza 3, especially since Kaz and the rest of the guys there have a MUCH better outlook on games, as an art form, and proper business ethnics.
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Consoldtobots - 61 days 17 hours ago
3.2 -
it's not arrogance, it's bitterness.

arrogance comes from a position of superiority not the other way around.
Maybe someday some gifted sociology professor will highlight the REAL competition between EAST vs WEST and how it was played out on one front by two different companies that competed in the console arena. This is more a case of one culture (the west) being high on their own supposed superiority and getting a painful wake up call from a far more humble, dedicated and intelligent culture.

ouch.
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Jsynn7 - 62 days 4 hours ago
4 - It never ends....
ANOTHER PETITION?!?! WTF! It's like petition season in the gaming industry. Have any of the past 1,000 petitions made some company change their mind about anything?? Give it a rest already. Seriously, this is retarded. Sony does not need Valve games. Sony has 20 1st party studios plus support from the major gaming devs in the industry. If you want to play a valve game so badly, pick up one for the PC or the 360. Valve has made perfectly clear that they don't want to develop games for Sony so why bother petitioning them? right now, they're probably laughing at the "fansforPS3" guys and their petition. The Ps3 is coming out with some stellar stuff in the very near future. Enjoy that and screw Valve.
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darkpower - 62 days 3 hours ago
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You...DO know they responded to the L4D Boycott petition, right?
5 NaiNaiNai | 62 days 4 hours ago - deleted by mod -
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00 - 62 days 3 hours ago
5.1 - that
could be said for all sides of the "war" except wii fanboys cause they don't exist.
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NaiNaiNai - 62 days 3 hours ago
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PSN community does suck. T_T I mean really...All you guys ever do is trash devs and games...I go over the 360 or wii section they enjoy there games, they don't always trash it.

Just like ODST, fans on the 360 enjoyed the game, while ps3 owners trashed it.

Same goes for Forza 3 and so on.

I don't see much trash talk on UC2 now do i...from anyone.. Barely any bad things from the media either.

so in truth the psn community is horrible.
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Godmars290 - 62 days 3 hours ago
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The only reason the PS3 community is talking about it is because Valve opened their mouths first. Just like Turn 10 who couldn't stop comparing Forza 3 to GT5 though its not out.
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ryan2107 - 62 days 4 hours ago
6 - What is wrong with that man's face?
He looks like half a werewolf that suddenly decided to stop growing hair in the middle and instead start turning red.
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baraka007 - 62 days 4 hours ago
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I'm trying to join but it wont let me load this group... anyone else having a problem?
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darkpower - 62 days 4 hours ago
7.1 -
Here: http://steamcommunity.com/g...

Click on that. I've already contacted Jazzking about this. Apparently the system is tagging on some weird ass URL next to the actual URL I was trying to direct to in the article, and thus it's directing to some "Breakfast Brawl" page that has nothing else on it.
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Boty - 62 days 4 hours ago
8 - What ever happend to being professional?
Now I've defended valve before(check my comment history) but-
I'm sure Valves Professionalism wouldn't pass Sony's quality services inspectors.

To be honest if some company told me that I can't have a product because I supposedly don't have friends and don't play games then I would give them a swift kick in their money maker and tell them were they could put that game.
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Bodyboarder_VGamer - 62 days 4 hours ago
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Let them be people, you just can't shape the world the way you want.
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divideby0 - 62 days 4 hours ago
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only in the gamming industry,,,,professionals can act like complete idiots, release completely broken and untested games and just run their mouths like a babbling brook

psss...Watch Ted Price and learn how to be a PROFESSIONAL in your industry.....

maybe Gabe one day will put the pizza down and learn
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Biggunz - 62 days 4 hours ago
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jleack - 62 days 4 hours ago
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Awesome article. A+++.
13 Dellis | 62 days 3 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show
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Biggunz - 62 days 3 hours ago
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Jamescagney - 62 days 3 hours ago
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Uh oh, it's campaign time. Can we include dressing tortoises up in dresses? It's a dreadful practise, and I vote that we outlaw it.
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kelvin22 - 62 days 3 hours ago
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Valves a considerably ugly man with a horrid game line up left 4 dead is nothing to brag about the psp can do better i know that for a fact.
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00 - 62 days 3 hours ago
16.1 - I
didn't know valve was a person.
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LONEWOLF231 - 61 days 21 hours ago
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Keep telling yourself that buddy MAYBE youll one day believe it yourself. If the games are horrid as you say then WHY has this petition to bring VALVE games to the PS3 started???
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00 - 62 days 3 hours ago
17 - oh the drama
on this episode the fanboys are pissed over something they really shouldn't give a damn about. when will the conflict end? when will Picard return? who is the man in the mask? find out in the next episode.
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killer_pwned89 - 62 days 3 hours ago
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Wow this is just sad and to think i was about to be nice to valve and buy there half life package. Well Gabe thank ur butt buddy for loseing ur money cuz now its going to some real person on ebay that deserves it.

Anyone that likes the 360 more would be mad to if they did this to 360 other then ps3.
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kewlkat007 - 62 days 3 hours ago
18.1 - haha you honestly think Valve needs
your pocket change?
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LONEWOLF231 - 61 days 21 hours ago
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But they are.
Read the TALES articles didnt Konami shaft MS by giving them a BETA while Sony gets the full package funded by MS. OR the fact that Quantum Theory isnt Making Heavy Rain for the 360 even though they are a Third Party Developer.....so on and so forth BUT the difference between 360 gamers and Ps3 gamers is that the 360 gamers dont B!*ch and moan all the time..........well for the most part at least.
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tatotiburon - 62 days 3 hours ago
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ps3 fanboys crying again?...same old story
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Stationfan - 62 days 3 hours ago
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Wow seeing that guy and gabe pic I cod see the inspiration for that bloomer character.
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greatjimbo78 - 61 days 15 hours ago
20.1 -
"I cod see the inspiration for that bloomer character."
I'm confused, What could a type of fish, and a loaf of bread have anything to do with this?
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darkvenom - 62 days 3 hours ago
21 - Look...
everyone it's tatotiburon *points* trolling in the PS3 section yet again *claps* wow don't you have any games to play?.....oh! that's right you have a 360.
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00 - 62 days 3 hours ago
21.1 - actually
this is in playstation, Xbox 360, PC, Industry News sections.
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darkvenom - 62 days 3 hours ago
22 - @00...
my bad!,but that still doesn't stop him from being a troll,he doesn't like the PS3,yet here he is spewing bile against PS3 users.
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00 - 62 days 2 hours ago
22.1 - yes
people seem to like trolling on N4G
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monkey602 - 62 days 2 hours ago
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"people seem to like trolling on N4G"

Understatement!
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SiteNblog Defender - 62 days 1 hour ago
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And what about you venom? No games to play?
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Cherchez La Ghost - 62 days 3 hours ago
23 - LoL!!!
Majority of you taking this too seriously! One thing in life you must remember, people will say and do what they want. If they feel that the 360 community suits right for their games, that's just the way they feel. Ok, Valve said it, now what you gonna do?! Go on a rampage on a message board?! Protest "I'm not spending my money to this company" movement?! Blog all night to get satisfaction from others who are salty as you?! I have three words for you.........., LET IT GO! Now Hiphopgamer says he's taking his money elsewhere and people are on his side. But when he gives his vidcast, people take jabs at him. ?????!!! And I thought The Jerry Springer Show was full of drama!
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Consoldtobots - 61 days 17 hours ago
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I agree, I don't lose ONE WINK of sleep because Valve games aren't on the PS3. I hardly play them on PC anyway. When Valve is making games that turn peoples heads and get critical acclaim for pushing the envelope in graphics, physics, gameplay then I MIGHT care that they don't publish on playstation, until then they are just a mediocre developer putting out mediocre titles still living off their past half-life glory. Valve were great 10 years ago, now they are a joke.
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Raiinstorm81 - 62 days 2 hours ago
24 -
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Figboy - 62 days 2 hours ago
25 - it's like this bizarre rift in the space time continuum:
Valve, once a respected, awesome developer of Half Life 2, Portal, and Team Fortress 2: now producing mediocre/shallow filler games (Left4Dead), and spewing vitriol at anyone even remotely connected to the Playstation 3 and it's community.

EA, once a douchetastic, evil corporation: now producing games that i have to say are quite quality (Dead Space, Mirror's Edge, Need for Speed Shift, Brutal Legend)

Square-Enix, once the best RPG house in the industry: now, producing medicore filler RPGs for the Xbox 360 (Star Ocean 4, The Last Remnant, Lost Odyssey).

Nintendo, once a purveyor of innovation and creativity, and even technology: now, coasting on the unwavering love of their fanbase that forgives them, despite whoring out franchises like Mario, Zelda, and Metroid while getting fat cash off of mediocre "gimmick" titles the mass market eats up.

Microsoft and the Xbox, once known for producing quality shooters and featuring second to none online gameplay: now, rehashing Halo and Fable every year, over-charging for peripherals, treating multi-plats like exclusives, and one of the parties involved in raising game prices to $60 this generation, as well as encouraging the current nasty tactic of "exclusive content" on consoles.

Sony and the Playstation, once the kings of the console market, with the only two gaming consoles in existence to sell over 100 million units (handhelds don't count): now, struggling to topple both Nintendo and Microsoft, as well as a continued wave of negative PR, and no matter how much they try to propitiate the masses with, quite literally, some of the best games this generation (MGS4, LBP, Killzone 2, Uncharted 2, etc), it's just not enough.

Activision once a douchetastic, sinister corporation that thrived off of mediocre licensed shovelware: now...well, actually, Activision is still pretty much the epitome of douchebaggery, as they've always been.

in either case, this whole generation has been topsy fricking turvy.

the fact that i have more respect for EA than Valve is enough proof to me that something is SERIOUSLY wrong with the industry this console cycle.
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monkey602 - 62 days 2 hours ago
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Valve were gracious winners but they are disgracefully sore losers. They've been knocked from the top of the list and rather than work on getting back up there they b!tch about it. You dont get respect that way.

IMO they are too set into the past, they aren't willing to move forward with the industry. Shown by them continuing to release games run on the same engine over and over (by the way I like said games but it's still obviously getting dated). Whatever about them not coding for PS3 fine, do whatever. but keep the BS to yourself.

I agree with a few here it's being blown out of proportion but regardless this kind of public mud slinging is un-called for
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GiantEnemyCrab - 61 days 23 hours ago
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Wow, I must of missed those 5 Fable and Halo games since according to you that's all they release... I guess games like Gears of War, Mass Effect, Forza, etc are just not even worth mentioning eh?

Could you be any more slanted? At least we can get a picture of what's going on in your head about the console generation.. rather sorry..

I love this article.. Justin D(bag) who has no problems thrashing the 360 and it's fanbase consistently now crying with the rest of the PS3 fanboys about their feeling's being hurt by the comments of a developer.. All the while trashing Valve, creating accounts like GabeEatsWell and the personal insults, including a comment here threatening to kill them. Sounds to me like many here enjoy dishing it out.. Just have some problems taking it.

(just waits for the "well Valve started it" childish responses)
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Kakihara - 62 days 2 hours ago
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All I can add here is my own personal experience ...

two months playing free Xboxlive trials - putting up with thousands of thirteen year old middle American kids who think they're being shocking and cool and grown up by using tons of racial slurs and being overly hostile.

About two months playing on PSN for free - Never once hearing a racial slur or an unbroken male voice.

I'm not trying to say one is better than the other or that you don't get little wannabe badass racist kids on PSN but those are the facts of my personal experience and the opinion that experience leaves me with is that PSN is the far better community.
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monkey602 - 62 days 2 hours ago
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I have heard a few of these types on PSN. To say they aren't present would be lying. But I kinda agree with you. They do plague Live to a far greater extent.
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Magnus - 62 days 2 hours ago
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After reading this I can say I don't want a Valve game on my PS3 I don't want it to spit the disk out with a bad taste like Valve. A Valve game on the PS3 now or in the near future in my books is an insult to both Sony and the Playstation franchise. With multiple excuse and stupid reasons why they don't want to develop for the system because they are lazy and stuck taking the easy way out instead of trying to challange themselves. Instead of beating around the bush why does Valve just not say "We think the PS3 is a pile of crap and we won't develop for it!" I want Gurilla, Naughty Dog, or even Insomniac make a Left 4 Dead kinda game I would play that with a smile on my face knowing I am not insulting my PS3 with a Valve game in it.
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thorstein - 62 days 2 hours ago
28 - Thanks for the info
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i3eyond the Circle - 62 days 2 hours ago
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PsN is a dull ass community tho.

Only a handful of games stay hot and active.

A few months down the road it becomes barren wastelands of micless or physically mute people.

I know I'm not the only person on here who gets on the PsN and feels like he's playing with a bunch of NPC bots.

I can see were Valve is coming from.

Why give food away to people who don't eat?
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