NowGamer: CS: GO beta succumbs to Valve time after feedback.
Fan projects Team Fortress: Source 2 and Portal 64 have shut down after Valve intervened in their development.
First they open Steam up to more AI, now they are shutting down fan projects when at one time they used to support or even give the fans jobs.
Wonder what's going on with Valve at the minute.
There's potential that Valve had already planned to bring Source 2 to TF2 officially after Counter Strike 2. It's been getting some renewed attention lately.
You got Nintendo to thank for Portal64 being taken down. As for TF2, most likely it's due to the probability of Valve working on a source 2 port themselves. It's sucks but Nintendo are the biggest pricks in the business and not letting this drag out into a huge court drama is the best decision.
Valve has updated its stance on AI games on the Steam storefront, allowing creators to publish AI-created games.
Hell no. I want games that have been made by creative minds who have a passion for their craft, not a bot with a penchant for plagiarism.
So instead of paying for an engine and assets to create a game they are paying for an engine and assets to create a game.
Valve has officially warned against inhaling the Steam Deck vent fumes in an official response due to potential health hazards.
Wow people will huff anything nowadays some people just have way too much time on their hands.
Another reason to love the PlayStation Portal, no chance of breathing in noxious vapors.
Get a Steam Deck they said, to which I reply, what are you high?
Now really isn't a good time to release a beta any ways. BF3 and MW3 (along with tons of other great holiday games) are going to be taking up everyones time.
Yeah, people would care about this in the summer months when there was nothing else to play. But with battlefield, gears 3, resistance 3, batman, ultimate MvC, uncharted 3, dark souls, skyrim and of course MW3 all either out in the last few months are on their way out, no one really cares too much about a delayed beta right now.
you guys are acting like the beta is a tool to generate hype and act as an advanced/early demo
this is VALVE, not bungie or infinity ward; their betas are designed to actually test out the flaws or work out the bugs or stress test, and the fact that MW3 and BF3 and other holiday games are out shouldnt really effect the ability to beta test a game
they probably delayed it because it wasnt ready to be tested adequately, not because they fear competition from other games
I think 10000 pr0s/serious gamers are better than millions of screaming kids complaining that theyre getting shot through walls ;)
I never said there was a fear of competition, just said not that much people will care too much about the beta being delayed right now because of the fact that there are so many games either out or coming out in the next few weeks.