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Holy Shit, Valve
JD:
Ha nevermind what I said before I'm an idiot.
Ozymandias:
--- Quote from: est on 15 Apr 2011, 18:12 ---The computations page/potato sack/encouraging indie games by asking people to play them for an early release of a heavily anticipated game is really, awfully great.
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This is what happens when someone who controls the means of distribution is insanely clever and actually really wants to encourage people to make great games. Everyone ends up winning. Portal 2 gets cool advertising, the indie devs get advertising and more sales, the players get great games for cheap and an early release for a huge title, and Valve gets lots of money no matter what. There is literally no downside for anyone in this scheme.
The CEO of Stardock, who recently sold Steam's largest competitor service Impulse to GameStop of all goddamn things, went on record as blaming Valve's current devotion to Steam for Ep 3's eternal delay. And while that does suck for Half-Life fans, honestly, I wouldn't want their priorities the other way around.
ackblom12:
Impulse was sold to fucking Gamestop?
Jesus christ Stardock, way to totally fuck over your message with Impulse.
Ozymandias:
I know, right? The entire time Stardock was decrying Valve as being too corporate and evil with Steam.
So they sold their solution to fucking GameStop.
Well done.
KvP:
--- Quote from: ackblom12 on 16 Apr 2011, 11:27 ---Impulse was sold to fucking Gamestop?
Jesus christ Stardock, way to totally fuck over your message with Impulse.
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That's kind of what they get for expecting people to pay full price for games without DRM
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