Squilliam said:
Reasonable said:
Squilliam said:
Noone on the PS3 cares. Everyone with a PS3 only hates Valve, their games will bomb, period, comma. Actually this sounds like more a making up process than anything of substance. Oh and Steamworks itself encompasses a whole range of minor/inconsequential things all the way up to major features. Just throwing down the name Steamworks is meaningless without a better context.
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I'm going to bet against you on this one. The majority of PS3 owners won't have any conception of Valve one way or another and the core that do seem to have been hugely molified by seeing Gabe himself apparently eating humble pie in person.
Valve I believe are very, very good at knowing how to play gaming communities, and I don't doubt for a second they hadn't thought through the impression given to the harcore gaming community by Gabe himself trundling out and making the comments he did.
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Why are you making a bet against me and then supporting my side? 
In any case, yes Valve is very good at smooching the hardcore gamer communities. Case in point was their derailing of the Left 4 Dead 2 boycott by flying the leaders over to the HQ and making sweet sweet bribery with them.
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Yup - or Gabe flying to Australia!
I'm pretty sure Gabe wouldn't have put himself on that stage unless Sony was allowing more than a tiny slice of Steamworks on PSN - it wouldn't have been worth it.
It might not pan out, but Valve clearly feel they have a true opening into consoles here vs simply shoving their games on them for some quick bucks.
