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TiagoCosta on 03 November 2014

Valve interest in making games atm seems to be close to zero.



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crissindahouse on 03 November 2014
roborad said:
Ka-pi96 said:
roborad said:

it'd be crazy if they announced left 4 dead 3 next year.

such an amazing ip.  can't see why they didn't bother to make more with the really great sales the games received.  

Simple... it's Valve... they can't count any higher than 2


lol...

oh, valve..

is valve rich or something?  just wondering how much money they actually make.  

They are obviously. Game sales on Steam are probably insane, they get money of  every freaking transaction on the marketplace between two players (when someone sells a card or something) and then they have games like Counter Strike where many many people buy many many keys to open weapon cases (every key costs 2 freaking Euro, not sure if the same in Dollar)

Can't even imagine how much money valve makes with all of that.



Jaywood2010 on 03 November 2014
TiagoCosta said:
Valve interest in making games atm seems to be close to zero.


Im not a big Valve fan but id like to see Portal 3 xD  never played the Half-Life franchise




       

kinisking on 03 November 2014

I wasn't even able to find a single match in evolve. Huge disappointment.



Ltd predictions by the time 9th Gen comes out

Ps4:110million

Xbox one :75 million( was 65) 

Wii u: 20 milliion

TiagoCosta on 03 November 2014
JayWood2010 said:
TiagoCosta said:
Valve interest in making games atm seems to be close to zero.


Im not a big Valve fan but id like to see Portal 3 xD  never played the Half-Life franchise

Valve is so meh to me, then again I'm not a pc guy. My brother likes half life 1/2 tho 

PC old timers like ID software, valve, blizzard... I can only think of a few games I enjoyed from them, left 4 dead, Warcraft 2/3. Epic is my favorite with unreal/gears.

Also, I really liked ensemble.. Such a waste Microsoft.



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crissindahouse on 03 November 2014
Ryuu96 said:
MS doing some restructuring in the advertising division after firing a lot of them

http://microsoft-news.com/microsoft-announces-another-restructuring-in-its-advertising-division-following-layoffs/

To summarize: the division is restructuring to revolve around more senior members of staff who are focused on selling advertising solutions across its entire portfolio — which includes MSN, Bing, Xbox, Skype, Outlook and Windows 8 — rather than having big separate sales teams for the different verticals.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-advertising-promotes-bruno-fiorentini-junior-2014-11#ixzz3I1g07y5V

Someone posted that some days ago. But as much as I understand it it's not about the marketing for their own products but about the advertsiement of other companies on MS products. So, not about Xbox or Windows advertisement to sell Xbox and Windows but about the advertsiement on as example Xbox Live from other companies who want ad space on Xbox Live. Teams responsible for that will be fired or whatever...



Jaywood2010 on 03 November 2014
TiagoCosta said:
JayWood2010 said:
TiagoCosta said:

Valve is so meh to me, then again I'm not a pc guy. My brother likes half life 1/2 tho 

PC old timers like ID software, valve, blizzard... I can only think of a few games I enjoyed from them, left 4 dead, Warcraft 2/3. Epic is my favorite with unreal/gears.

Also, I really liked ensemble.. Such a waste Microsoft.


EPIC is actually my favorite developer.  Though a lot of that was because of CLiff Bleszinki.  Now that him and Rod Fergusson isnt there im kind worried about their future.  Hoping they stay as brilliant as they have.

Im waiting to see BossKey's game though.  People may not like Cliffy B but he is a brilliant game dev and i often agree with what he says as well




       

roborad on 03 November 2014
TiagoCosta said:
JayWood2010 said:
TiagoCosta said:
Valve interest in making games atm seems to be close to zero.


Im not a big Valve fan but id like to see Portal 3 xD  never played the Half-Life franchise

Valve is so meh to me, then again I'm not a pc guy. My brother likes half life 1/2 tho 

PC old timers like ID software, valve, blizzard... I can only think of a few games I enjoyed from them, left 4 dead, Warcraft 2/3. Epic is my favorite with unreal/gears.

Also, I really liked ensemble.. Such a waste Microsoft.


microsoft should not have scrapped ensemble.  they were one of the top rts devs of their time and halo wars is awesome.  

I don't even know why they were scrapped or spread out among other studios.  For a console rts, halo wars pretty well and it was well received.  



TiagoCosta on 03 November 2014

Do want.



TiagoCosta on 03 November 2014
shikamaru317 said:
TiagoCosta said:
Do want.

Agreed, I'd buy it.


Hopefully many new users get D4, it deserves it, and I want ep2.