There is a such thing as a travesty in the gaming industry. We have seen it in the past. There has been the Atari Jaguar (which one could think that if Atari had a long term plan with it, the system could've gone places), the untimely death of Sega as a hardware company (which because a bit of a half-bittersweet deal), and the CD-i. However, travesties are not exclusive to consoles, but rather manufacturers and developers in the gaming industry. We see it all the time that reviewers get things wrong about games on a factual level in order to support their opinions, and developers say things about issues that they know nothing about.
Valve, I am sincerely talking about you, and your ignorance to the video game industry, because your words, your actions, and your way of developing games and then just saying that a certain group of gamers does not matter is in fact a travesty to the gaming industry.
I am sure you have read them, and I am also sure you know about it: A petition, spanning several, if not many, signatures, reaching more than 2000, and that is probably underestimating it by a landslide, about the Playstation 3 version of the Orange Box. We've even seen an open letter, plagiarized or not, submitted as a news story on this very site. As I am sure your spearhead, Gabe Newell, has visited this site before, you probably know about the bugs, glitches, and downright negligence that you and the publishers that put it out for the PS3 crowd because, according to your spearhead, it is a "waste of everybody's time" and you would rather be loud about your opinions about a console instead of actually serving your customers about the porting of the game from the 360 and PC-Rom.
The travesty here: While you ignore any pleas by the people that bought the PS3 version of the game to fix just a simple bug and pass off a patch that fixes nothing as a patch, you supply the 360 version and the PC version of the very same game with all the trimmings, patches, and updates they could ever want, and then some. Thus, you not only hate the Playstation 3, as your spearhead has made clear, but you also hate the people that bought the system so much that you are willing to let them know, however way you can, that they do not matter.
How dare you, Valve, and especially, how dare you, Gabe Newell (we'll save our breaths in talking about EA, since they are just too busy courting the FTC to let them take over Take Two Interactive to care)? Mr. Newell, you are someone who would otherwise be hailed as a legend in game development, even think to imply a boneheaded statement like that. You have went from a legend in the gaming industry, to a complete and total disgrace, and you deserve nothing more than for everyone in the gaming industry to tell you that. It's not just of your opinions, which, by the way, have become moot since Sony has been on the best rolls they have had this year, which by the way is slated to continue. It's how you act upon them, which is the reason for this travesty. The last time you spoke about the Playstation 3, you answered Edge Magazine's question of "A while ago you said that you thought Sony should do a ‘do-over’ with PS3. Do you still think that?" with quote:
Absolutely. I think [PS3 is] a waste of everybody’s time. Investing inAnd with that went your legacy into the bowels of travesty. While we shouldn't confuse this with saying that you do not have any right to an opinion, it is a matter of fact that you have acted upon those words, and have brainwashed your minions to become your mouthpieces about this, and have manifested those words into blatant acts of terrorism. If this is how you show the world how much you hate one system over another, and be advised that we have yet to hear if you have changed your mind now since that quote came from an October 2007 interview, then you shouldn't even be developing games, but go back to whatever cubby hole you came out of, and leave the game developing to someone who gives a damn about the industry.
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"the capital group of PCF Group S.A."
If you're getting funding from a group that needs two different ways of Acronyming itself, things will not go the way you want them to.
No wonder Microsoft is exploring bringing its games to PlayStation 5
Play Xbox games here play them there. It's what they've been conditioning ppl for years now.
There own fault but I doubt they really care at this point.
Turns out when you put ALL of your exclusives on another platform (PC), people don't have a reason to buy your f***ing console. MS should just go 3rd party.
There fanboy brains are tanking as well same for media well there brains been gone
Saw a video of MS financial break down on YT. Basically MS has growth in services and usage is up while consoles are way down. The thing is, if it wasn't for ABK they would be flat, meaning no growth. Revenue was up 62%, good right? Yes again that 62% growth was bought by ABK. They bought that growth. As I said earlier with ABK they would have no growth just flat. Once again it's the acquisitions that's keeping MS a float this whole time. With out that, yeah they would be in trouble, which is just sad.
With loads of game announcements backed up going back as July 2020. Will their growth ever be from those many studios and games? I feel like MS is just getting lucky at this point. No big releases since October yet still seemingly doing well or staying more or less the same really, minus console sales falling. They buy their growth but I suppose that's the point of acquiring studios.
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get ur fact right...Valve doesnot make games for PS3.EA approached them to port the game. DUH
i stoped reading when i got 2 this point
spelling mistakes...........who give cr1p
You lost me and had me laughing with the "blatant acts of terrorism" bit.
Gabe Newell might be a douche but surprise a lot of people in the industry are.
When it comes down to it Valve is one of the premier developers in the world. I have yet to play a game that touched me as much the ending of Half Life Episode 2 did and I have been gaming for over 20 years.
Valve is one of the best game devs if not the best.