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SPECIAL COMMENT: Valve, why do you hate the video game industry?

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 in
the Cell, investing in the SPE gives you no long-term benefits. There’s nothing there that you’re going to apply to anything else. You’re not going to gain anything except a hatred of the architecture they’ve created. I don’t think they’re going to make money off their box. I don’t think it’s a good solution.

And 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.

Because no matter how you slice it, Mr. Newell, the Playstation 3 is responsible, by the selling of the Orange Box to your own fans that have chosen that console over the competition, another word you solely forgotten, in giving you that check that you use to feed your family, put a roof over your head, and whatever else you use it for. It's part of your salary, sir, and that can just as easily be taken away. With telling the PS3 fans of the Orange Box, some of which have no other system available for them to buy the game on, that they do not matter, you essentially tell them that you think their money is dirty money, and you do not want it. If that is really how you feel about those fans, sir, then they can just as easily tell you that you do not matter anymore, by not buying your games, on any platform.

But this goes much deeper than that. Not only do you, Mr. Newell, ignore the PS3 owners of the game, but you slap them in the face by rewarding those that buy the game on the platform that you want them to buy the game for by fixing the littlest things that are wrong on that version. This is also the makings of terrorism. Not that you are not allowed to patch or update a game at all, but it's severely unfair, and you should be ashamed of yourself for letting it go on, assuming you're not the reason for it going on. By doing this, you imply that the only reason why you let EA, which by the way didn't hold a gun to your bloated head forcing you to port this game to the PS3 (something you shouldn't have allowed if you cared this little about that group of gamers), port this game is to constantly slap them around by letting them be the child who has to sit and get nothing while they watch their mother give the other child all sorts of love and attention just because she likes that child more than the other. These people bought the game for that console sir because they enjoy that console. And in case you want to start labeling people, as well, that does not make them fanboys because they probably have the 360 or the Wii, as well.

Simply put, sir, you and your minions really need to get some sun and get your heads out of your collective orifices. There have been petitioners who are passionate about their game and their beliefs, who have felt like they've been slapped around long enough yet don't want to support another system with their money because of whatever reason, more on that later, and even that open letter which you should read, sir. Yet you don't care. But you should. They don't deserve this kind of treatment, sir, and neither does the game industry.

And then we go back to the quote that we've mentioned before. The one where you, Mr. Newell, said that the Playstation 3 was "a waste of everybody's time". A waste, you say, sir? Tell that to the many people who have paid good money for the system and have found that Sony has added more and more features to its system via firmware than anyone could imagine. Tell that to Toshiba, who had found that including Blu-Ray in the PS3 helped Sony overtake HD-DVD to the point that the latter format kicked the bucket. Tell that to the disgruntled Microsoft consumers who are tired of having console after console receive three blinking red lights around its power button, a console which may become obsolete within a year or two, anyway, if even that. Tell that to the people who have played Uncharted, Heavenly Sword, Folklore, MLB08: The Show, Resistance, or Gran Turismo 5: Prologue, or any of the fine PSN downloadable games which many have enjoyed, such as Everyday Shooter and Super Stardust HD, which, by the way, are independent games, the former made by ONE PERSON! That's right: One, single, solitary person, and has seen his game get catapulted into masterpiece status. We should then say, tell that to Jonathan Mak, who is that single person who made that game, since if one person can make an entire game and love the PS3 because of it and found no problems making a good game on it, then you certainly can find time to at least try. Tell that to Rockstar and Ubisoft, who have said that they don't think the PS3 is any harder to develop for, just using a different language that you may have to learn (which shouldn't be that hard of a concept to you, sir, unless you truly are a lazy developer like alot of people, myself included, claim you are). Tell that to the people who contrived that petition, and the people who are passionate enough to sign it, and then give you an open letter saying that you should do something about it instead of spitting in their faces anytime you find the opportunity to. Tell that to the people who think you should use a little innovation in your games in which think developing for the

But most importantly, try telling that to Hideo Kojima. You may have heard of the game: Metal Gear Solid 4. His development company not only loved the PS3, but wished that the system could've done even MORE than what its specs could do, which has been documented as being the most powerful out of all of the current generation of systems. He didn't have enough space on a 50 gigabyte Blu-Ray disc to do what he really wanted to do. And then, because of how fluid he was with his game, the video game industry is thankful. Basically sir, Kojima is a person who's boots you are not worthy to lick. He not only proved that the PS3 isn't a waste of anyone's time, but that it could be the coup de grace. This is not in any way a fanboy argument, but rather the truth. Not only will Metal Gear Solid 4 be an easy consideration for game of the year, but maybe one of the best video games of all time on any system. And by the way, maybe you should check the sales figures on not only that game itself, but how the Playstation 3 fared because of such a game on their system. You'll be hard pressed to find anything there to suggest that it is a waste of everyone's time.

And finally, tell that to the gaming industry. You spit in the face of the industry by submitting yourself to this kind of deviant behavior. You help to put a bright, read sore spot on the face of the industry, because you ignore a part of the puzzle OF the gaming industry. Whether you like it or not, Sony is now an integral part of the lungs, the heart, the soul of the industry, and by doing this, you are inevitably destroying a big piece of that puzzle.

Yes, I have mocked you alot for everything from weight (which I have no room to talk) to laziness. And yes, I do think you deserve it for this behavior. But that is sarcasm, and most things like that can be taken with a grain of salt (though sometimes, with the way you have conducted yourself, we can have our doubts about that sarcasm being such). However, this time, we're not trying to be funny in the slightest. This is as serious as we can get. We are sick and tired of you and you continued acts of negligence to the industry. We are sick and tired of you telling a group of gamers that they do not matter and that their system is a waste of everyone's time when many have since proven you otherwise. We are sick and tired of you spitting in the face of a group of gamers that shouldn't be your red-headed stepchild. And finally, we are sick and tired of you conducting these acts of blatant terrorism.

So, in closing in telling you about this travesty, Mr. Newell, I must ask you and your minions at Valve one simple question:

Why do you hate the video game industry?

Good night and good luck.

- Comments (5)

Evil0Angel5778d ago (Edited 5778d ago )

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

That just happened!

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SPECIAL COMMENT: Valve, why do you hate the video game industry?

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