• Shiggles@sh.itjust.works
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    20 hours ago

    How greedy of the man, to checks notes admit to not wanting to make a cash grab and instead leaving the series unfinished because they didn’t think they could do it justice.

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          10 hours ago

          I’m not complaining, just noting that it was very lucrative. Folks are really overreacting with the downvotes. Chill people.

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            10 hours ago

            It sure sounded like you were. It’s because you said cash grab. That’s a negative attribute. You basically said it’s garbage but made him a lot of money. Along the lines of like the last 4 terminator movies.

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              7 hours ago

              Well, I use Steam a ton and have a Steam Deck. But, Steam dev effort to income ratio is probably ridiculously skewed. The company pretty much prints money. In that way, Steam is a cash grab.

              I do question if Steam hadn’t been such a success if Valve might have released HL3 by now.

              It has Google vibes to it. Google makes so much money in ad revenue that a lot of their other products just get cancelled.

              I do like Valve overall though and am a fan. I’m a fan that wants to know the ending of HL3.

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      19 hours ago

      Leaving it to rot for 15 years was far more unjust than a slightly less “revolutionary” game. And the concepts they show in the new doc are cool as hell! I would have loved to shoot at blobmonster! They just decided singleplayer FPS games weren’t as profitable, and that’s fine, I guess. They’re a company, they want to make money. But pretending they were somehow doing us a favor by leaving the cliffhanger for long is utter nonsense. Especially since they wound up simply retconning it so the whole wait was pointless anyway!

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        11 hours ago

        You can’t say anything bad or joke about him. He’s god around these parts.

        A lot of these people will probably also say “billionaires shouldn’t exist” but for Gabe he’s “our” billionaire so it’s fine.