President of Gearbox questions Valves lack of PS3 support.

[NJ5]

This guy is a fool, or at least several of his arguments make him look so.

"Valve think their own stuff is the only stuff that matters, to the point where they have their own distribution platform. It's like, I don't care about retail, about Marketplace, or PSN, I'm going to have Steam.

Right here, several stupid remarks in just one or two sentences:

1- I bet having their own distribution system (which other publishers use for their titles) is a big part of why Valve is profitable when most of the gaming industry isn't. They avoid paying retail fees which shave a huge portion out of a game's profit. Furthermore Valve gets to collect their own fees from other developers who put their games on Steam. Maybe one day Valve will show him who's boss by jacking up his fees if he ever makes his games available on Steam :P

Somehow this guy manages to turn one of the positive things about Valve's business into a negative. What an idiot.

2- It's not true that Valve doesn't care about retail. That's why they have the deal with EA for retail copies of their games. In turn, EA also publishes its games on Steam. Valve obviously doesn't want to spend money on retail infrastructure when they can outsource it (as MANY other developers do, including this idiot's company).

3- What does the PSN or 360 market place have to do with a PC distribution system?

yeah, the Playstation platform's really cool. It's different to others and it's certainly a challenge to be able to develop software for. But that's where the fun is, right?".

Yeah because everyone knows running a business is all about fun, right?

I wonder if this guy has some bad history with Valve to be badmouthing them like this...