Valve games

[3gD` - Caligo Cordis]

So, I thought about it a lot lately, Valve (Steam) are one of the most liked dev-teams. Most of us loved games like Left 4 Dead, Half-Life, Counter Strike and Dota. So... I want to inspire Valve, or hope to inspire them. Like I said, We loved those games, we still play them to this day. Why is valve not developing more? Everyone knows, that they have the skill, knowledge and writing ability, to continue on. I, and many others would love to see more Valve games. Sure, Steam is a HUGE success compared to other launchers, but we are missing games from valve. Games, that we pay a fraction of the ridiculous pricing of "repeat games" or "dlc-farms" for, that keep us entertained, until we get more out of the game, than we expected. I just wish, that Valve would pick up their everything and produce yet another game, that will last years. (I drank, I probably don't make a lot of sense, but C'mon Valve, we know, you got it. Break us of the crappy games. PLEASE.)

[Mad Scientist]

Wouldn't mind Left4Dead 3 but a new engine that has better performance.

Would be nice if they did a new PC game, even something tailored to the deck itself. No card games or tech demos lol.

Though as they say, valve doesn't seem to count to 3.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Valve is working on games still. They just never talk about it until they are ready to.

They even made a tech demo last year...

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1902490/Aperture_Desk_Job/

Left 4 Dead is rather dead considering Turtle Rock bailed and made Back 4 Blood which is basically what L4D3 was going to be.

[WhiteKnight]

Valve does not make games anymore except for creating content for old games that makes money (CSGO, DOTA 2 and to lesser extent TF2).

They are too busy draining money on hardware.

[Crazy Tiger]

Originally posted by Alphaweibchen:

Why is valve not developing more?

Because other opportunities have preference. As a business, they simply made the choice to put the priorities elsewhere.

[Blupanda]

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

Originally posted by Alphaweibchen:

Why is valve not developing more?

Because other opportunities have preference. As a business, they simply made the choice to put the priorities elsewhere.

I believe Valve is more interested in selling games from other companies instead of making their own. I’m sure most of their money comes from selling games from third party developers instead of their own games. if you think of Steam as a console-like service and Steam Deck as a console, then it makes sense.

[Cathulhu]

And let's be honest, from a financial viewpoint, running Steam is way more efficient than making games.
They still support Dota 2 and CS:GO because those still make a good amount of money with minimal risk as those are already established franchises and titles.

Half-Life Alyx and Aperture Desk Job were mostly tech demos for SteamDeck and the Index VR set.

It seems even producing hardware like the Index and the SteamDeck are more appealing for Valve than making videogames these days.

[Pierce Dalton]

Why invest money in making games when you can simply sell the games made by others? Stonks

[Mailer]

Modern Valve does new software when there is something *innovative* to be said about software. The Steam Deck was an innovative piece of kit, that's why we got the tech demo.
Flat screen entertainment needs innovation squeezed out of it, because at this point we've pretty much been everywhere with it. It's more about expanding the experience with services and peripherals at this point.

Their company structure is unlike anywhere else, yet their employees are also nudged (aggressively so) into working on projects that generate novel ideas, like VR enhancements.

They have so much money at this point that they can pump a lot of it into a new hardware project, like a full VR helmet, brain interfacing or whatever, to then inevitably scrap it risk-free.

And why wouldn't they do this? Rather than following the suit of someone else, you try to come up with the next innovative gaming thing before everybody else does.

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It's not all hardware though.
People have been speculating on the "Neon Prime" statement quite a bit, and I personally think we may see a different type of game with that than has ever been done before, assuming they don't can the project so close to the finish.
It just might not be the game you are expecting.

[Brian9824]

In part the gaming market is SUPER SATURATED, so Valve has been focusing on other area's instead.

[wuddih]

here is the thing, you want new games from Valve?
make a super dope advanced prototype of a game yourself and get acquired.
that is how Valve got 100% of its new franchises besides Half-Life.

just be aware:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/687440/In_The_Valley_of_Gods/
you might lose interest in your own game if you do that. they joined Valve in 2018, giving out this statement:

Yes, we’re still making In the Valley of Gods (as a Valve game!); yes, we’ll still support Firewatch; and yes, we’ll still produce The Quarterly Review and our regular blog content. Thanks so much for your interest in our games and we’ll see you in Washington. Cheers.

they did none of that

l4d3 is never happening and 2 should have been an update to 1.
turtle rock made that franchise and they are no longer at Valve and they have already made their unconstrained vision of a l4d successor, named back 4 blood.

and the fun thing is, it is really easy to say, as it is visually evident, that Valve wants more games on Steam to sell and they don't really wanna make much more games themselves.

know what is even easier to say?
Valve wants others to make the hardware and just use their software.
https://youtu.be/h9eihvhM_KE?t=433

Valve Index = "we want VR to be a thing and to convey that HTC Vive on which we worked on and other devices were not enough to get market penetration, so we made an own one"
Steam Deck = "we want portable PC gaming to be a thing and to convey that, existing devices were to niche to reach market penetration, so we made an own one"
i dont wanna squeeze in Steam Machines, that failure was actually good for myself. i dont care about VR and i had an ayaneo before the deck and the newer one is actually portable.

anyway, all what Valve does atm narrows down to get people on Steam.

and whatever game "neon prime" is, if it gets hyped too much into the realms of half life and in reality its just a "smaller project", it might just get shelved before it sees the light of day as expectations would not be met. that basically happened with artifact, just that it was "accidentally" released.

if Valve and EA would ask me to develop games for them, I would go to EA.
is that visual enough to show how bad Valve is?

i don't want Valve to make games. just don't ♥♥♥♥ up Steam, that is all i expect.

[{ИЯm} Keith]

Originally posted by wuddih:

if Valve and EA would ask me to develop games for them, I would go to EA.
is that visual enough to show how bad Valve is?

i don't want Valve to make games. just don't ♥♥♥♥ up Steam, that is all i expect.

ewww EA, those slime balls just force smaller devs to partner for sales / marketing and distribution and then mess them up / destroy them. Just look at what EA eventually did to Westwood. No thank you.

Steam may be charging a heafty fee to list / sell your product, but at least it's "your" product.

[Vaulty]

Games are made by people not companies, I don't think anybody that worked on L4D, Half Life or Portal still works at valve.