Valve Is Not Interested In Developing For Consoles
“We love the PC right now. A lot,” he said. “We get really frustrated working in walled gardens. So you try to talk to someone who’s doing product planning on a console about free-to-play games and they say ‘Oh, we’re not sure free-to-play is a good idea’ and you’re like ‘the ship has left’.
“There have been cases where we’ve updated products 5-6 times in a day. When we did the original iOS [release] of Steam App, right, we shipped it, we got a whole bunch of feedback and like the next day we’re ready to do an update. We weren’t able to get that update out for six months! And we couldn’t find out why they wouldn’t release it! They wouldn’t tell us. This is the life that you have in these environments. And finally they shipped it! And they wouldn’t tell us why they finally shipped it.
“So for us, while we’re spending all of our time trying to be as tunnel-vision in this loop with our customers, to all of a sudden have this complete uncertainty about doing updates… Like we don’t know how to operate.”
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OmittingCoderPosted:
Im sure part of it is when Microsoft forced Valve to charge money for the left 4 dead dlc when Valve just wanted to release it for free. I don't really blame Valve for sticking to PC
DeftonesPosted:
No surprise, why would they work harder and pull the quality of the game back for some measly console. ew
GibbityTreePosted:
So if L4D3 ever comes out, it's gonna be PC exclusive? LAME! Valve has been blowing hard lately anyway LMAO
SkatesPosted:
Damn they got fcked over with that update. Six months and they were ready to update next day, wow.
DanielPosted:
Nicholas I don't think Valve would be good at developing console stuff.
That's exactly what I think they should just stick to PC.
ipPosted:
Good, Valve is a company created for PC gaming and nothing more. I'm glad that they are sticking to their original idea when they first founded the company back in '96.
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