More like the past few years recycling the same things over and over. Dude has a hard hate-on and given that no it's not surprising he's the only one doing this.
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I remember he was certainly very active in defending Epic around the launch of EGS (and I disagree heavily on pretty much all that), but it's not like he's the only one who's posted about Valve politics and been openly negative.More like the past few years recycling the same things over and over. Dude has a hard hate-on and given that no it's not surprising he's the only one doing this.
Here's the same stuff from July 2018 for example.
Ex-Valve employee describes ruthless internal politics at 'self-organizing' companies
He doesn't name the company in question, but it doesn't take any stretching to figure out who he's talking about in cases.
The way he talks you'd think nothing gets done at Valve, Steam is the same as it was in 2003, Counter-Strike is just like 1.6, Team Fortress 2 never went anywhere, DOTA2 is just a straight DOTA remaster, their collaboration with HTC to bring VR to the masses was a total failure, and so on and so forth, people are apparently paid to be lazy, not finish anything, and get bonuses and company wide vacation on top, Gabe and co must have some evil master plan at work to put up with it all too.
Isn't this the same guy that former Valve employees must have other issues with Valve. From the sounds of things in general Valve is not a great place, per say, but from a lot of former Valve employees they do not seem to have as much as an issue with the place as this guy does. He seems to always be brought up when there are talks about the work environment at Valve .
Surprisingly enough it does look like EGS will finally get reviews and wishlist..... For reviews well not even consoles really have those, and not all of the other PC launchers have those either. From the looks of it, I think EGS wants to put more of an emphasis on critic reviews instead of User Reviews which is sort of BS (but I could be wrong and just read it wrong). Because from what I saw it looks like Epic wants it to say that 90 percent of critics recommend this game as apposed to over 90 percent of users recommend this game. And while critic reviews can be useful they can also be full of BS, remember on PC there are a lot of game where the PC version will almost always have way less critic reviews than the console version of games. And a game potentially may be broken or something and it will still get a high score while users would give that game a bad review.I remember he was certainly very active in defending Epic around the launch of EGS (and I disagree heavily on pretty much all that), but it's not like he's the only one who's posted about Valve politics and been openly negative.
Obviously it's just one side of the story and we're never going to hear a non-PR answer from the other side.
Other than the weird culture thing, I guess my other problem with Valve is that for a company that's supposedly been "constantly hiring" for the past decade, how is it that they're seemingly stuck at 300-ish employees?
It sucks that CSGO only gets 1 operation a year (actually I think there was over a 2 year gap between the latest operations) because Gabe or some other definitely-not-a-leader winks at you and whispers that TI is approaching and their team could use more help, or they "have to" work on HL:A, or Artifact or whatever the hot thing happens to be that month.
They can obviously afford more devs and have had more than enough time to slowly scale up without ruining the company culture (I'm pretty sure this is one of the reasons Gabe once said as to why don't recruit more actively).
I like Valve and want them to do well.
PC gaming is much better off in the long run as long as Valve is leading the pack instead of a company like Microsoft or Epic, but I'm not sure they're going to be able to keep punching above their weight class forever against giants who have thousands of employees to throw at things.
sorry about the serious post
inb4 a joke about Epic having thousands of devs and EGS having pretty much no improvements in its first year
I like them but I wish we had more filter options. I'd like to be able to add exclusions based on tags (e.g., RPG but no JRPG, or FPS but no Roguelike) and I'd like more options, such as percent achievements complete. Still, it's a good start.I know I'm pretty late to this but dynamic collection based on tags is a real time-saver. Makes searching and choosing co-op games when my nieces wants to play much more easier. Really nice.
CS:GO is one of my go-tos but it will never be complete until Aztec is put back in.
I haven't played CS:GO but it was a popular map back in the old CS days. I played around v0.6 and it was a common map back in those days. Guessing maybe it was taken out with the switch to CS: GO?
A map from previous Counter Strike games that existed for a while in GO but was removed.
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Classic CS defusal map.
It was actually in the game originally but removed a couple years ago with a vague promise that it would return "updated." Nothing on it since then though
I'm failing to see what's the issue here. No work environment is suitable for every person, and I've yet to see that Valve's is hostile. Passive, maybe. But, y'know. Just because they aren't making Portal 3 doesn't mean that no significant work is being done..
24"? what is this, a monitor for ants?
It's a secondary monitor, and it's the best pixel-density/real estate balance for 1080p.24"? what is this, a monitor for ants?
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If it has variable refresh rate, make sure to pivot it. Secondaries turned to 90 degrees are great both for web browsing and tate shmups.
I'm feeling insulted. I am myself using a 24" monitor24"? what is this, a monitor for ants?
You should try to become a patient gamer. I have about 270 games on my wishlist, and over 200 of them are on sale - most of them 50% off or more.only bought Disco Elysium and Crosscode. This steam sale is indeed pretty sucky.
It's just a cover which you put over your regular helmet. The israel defense forces use them for additional camouflage.
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You should use another port with the same keyboard, or the same port with a different keyboard.
I like Cavil too but let us not go crazy here.
The look of mixed disgust and pity at the question really does sell it.
Heh. A few years ago a friend had an account and wanted to change the email associated with it (since he no longer had access to the previous one). It wanted confirmation by email. (To be fair, I think that was a general system for all account detail changes, but it's still not quite perfectly thought through)
Not every person is suited for specific work cultures. And his example reeks of "People didn't feel they have the acknowledgment of station or the power over other people and feel they are entitled to a management job with X number of direct employees instead of working their ass off like everyone else and get paid for actual impactful work instead of nepotism and station.
Answering my own question.
