Comment on Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees

• capt_wolf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s a bummer, but also not entirely surprising when you consider Half-Life 3…

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  • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah it’s great to think letting your employees do what they want is good, which it is, but yeah everyone’s going to have their own idea and want to work on it. So who gets funding, etc.

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• HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think it speaks to developing for gaming over developing for infrastructure. What does it say about gaming where, a company that has a healthy attitude about work in general, has staff that prefer to work on addressing Steam bugs over working on a prestige game?

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  • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Do they? They have some pretty buggy and downright unplayable games due to griefers for years now.

    Its like people but their heads and ignore everything bad about steam/valve.

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    • uis@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They have some pretty buggy and downright unplayable games due to griefers for years now so how is that even remotely true?

      TF2 got bot-free recently. Let’s see how it lasts.

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• Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If the alternative is making a half life 3 that people don’t have the passion for then imo it’s working.

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  • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Or there’s not enough people with passion, since their passion is hats, or the higher ups have their preferred people they give funding too, part of the linked articles mention this stuff.

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    • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I don’t want forced passion. If an artists doesn’t want to create, they shouldn’t be forced.

      So is game making an art form, I think so.

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      • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Great, than do that somewhere else and someone else can take their place and do their art under structure.

        Who said forcing? Some people just want to draw, while others do only want to draw hats. If you only want to draw hats and we need someone who will draw something else, and there’s 30 of them, yeah that’s an issue dude.

        Valve admitted it didn’t work, it’s weird the length people go to defend it.

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• Vilian@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They never fully abandoned it tho

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• nalinna@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That is absolutely fascinating, kinda disappointing, and a really good find.

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