what would become valve after gabe's leaving?

[choose life]

I was just thinking, what would time do with leaving important pople or gabe from valve. what if new people will completely ruin valve games ? for example: what apple became after jobs death ? jobs's products was really better. or look on W10 (no comment). try to compare windows 7/XP and windows 10. what if valve would get ruined too as dis trought time ? wot is your optinion ? is it possible ?

[Kargor]

As far as I'm concerned there are no good games from Valve, so that's no concern for me :-)

Steam, of course, can certainly turn much worse. That's a risk you have to take with a platform like this. However, a change in management could also improve things.

[76109108007942031]

Depends on who takes his place.

[IceDragon122]

Gabe never leaves -- He's always around during the summer sales -- I always see him right before a summer sale when everyone loses their mids waiting for all the deals :)

[Dakota.]

He has sons

[Pheace]

They way it's going they'll probably leave a virtual Gabe entity in charge by then.

[Ellie]

Well apparently the whole 'paid mods' fiasco happened while Gabe was 'away,' and he ended it as soon as he returned from wherever he had been...


...soooo, more of that sort of thing? (Ie: more commercialisation from dumb@ss corporate men who hate gaming and only look to the bottom line, pretty much like the people that ran the XboxOne into the ground with a below-par set of hardware in order to float the Kinnect - only something a non-gamer would ever think was a legit move...)

[Gallifrey - CSSC Gaming Founder]

When he announces he is quitting if I'm still around I'll start a post of instructions, sorry, recommendations for the new boss so if it all goes pear shaped he won't be able to say he wasn't warned.

Chief amongst these will be: -

1) Don't get greedy. The present set up brings a river of gold into Valve, sustains the market for PC games and all its developers, publishers and third parties, and provides gaming experiences for the masses. In particular you might want to have a chat with some of the bigger publishers about abuse of DLC - launch date special and gold editions up to 75% more than the base game with the suspicion that those unfortunates who bought the base game only got half of it.
2) Don't mess with the sales. A bit more robustness on your hardware might be appreciated and if you're going to do a game or a comic make sure they are good and work well or don't bother. Otherwise don't mess.
3) Red Dead Redemption. Persuade Sony to lift their exclusivity by you and Rockstar giving them 5% each of your end to earn a huge amount of money and make a lot of PC Gamers very happy. Sam Houser is going to be single digit fast dial on your work mobile at this point.
4) Paid mods. Either do it like "Gary's mod" with full developer support for ensuring there are no compatibility problems etc or don't charge at all.
5) I leave you with the barely modified comments of CEO Morgan ("Secrets of Alpha Centauri"). "We have never sought to become a monopoly in the supply of PC Games. It's just that our services are so good no-one feels the need to compete with us".

S.x.

[Ellie]

Originally posted by gallifrey:

When he announces he is quitting if I'm still around I'll start a post of instructions, sorry, recommendations...(SNIPPED TO SAVE SCROLLING)

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