/v/ - Video Games

>>13971207

You'll get to find out in Left4Dead 3. Just like how you got to find out if Gordon Freeman defeats the combine in Half-Life 3

>>13971207

>expecting nu-Valve to actually give a shit about storytelling

Have you been living under a rock?

>Giving the L4D franchise zero fucks after The Sacrifice

>Somewhat after this, it had a fan-made map competition to include the winner as the 'official' community-made map that is included with the game

>Ended up with a shitty map that noone wanted to fucking play because its fucking boring

>After that?

>Left the franchise to rot in the multiplayer graveyard

Gone are the layered and technical storytelling of past Valve. The profits from the masses are now more important than making games.

>>13971248

Nigger, even fucking Team Fortress 2 (Valve's first golden goose) only got 1 comic every fucking year. That's how much Volvo has fallen from the Developers we had known in the past.

They don't care anymore, they only care franchise that are raking in the dough and has a mass appeal to the market, which are limited to DotA and CSGO. While TF2 only has a skeleton crew to prop-up its facade of caring about it.

For now i only have contempt, disappointment and hope that i will (hopefully) live long enough to see this once-great company draw its dying breath (same goes with the AAA publishers, EA and Actiblizz in particular)

>>13971207

Because the Strayan staff at Valve can't shoehorn themselves into it.

>>13971207

Well, your answer is that Valve over the last year has done a great job proving that they firmly dont care about any of their IPs people want to care about. Note I said WANT to care about. The CS:GO fad is passing thanks to overwatch and DOTA still is big but not exactly mainsteam. I remember when they revealed the portal bridge constructor crossover, I lurked over to /r/games to see what the general masses reaction was, and describing what I saw to be filled with cynicism and apathy is an understatement.

TL:DR being an old school valve fan is suffering and if they DOTA card game and portal bridge constructor reveals are anything people are going to become angry soon enough.

>>13971375

I will never fucking forget this

Will Valve fall in our lifetime /v/?

The seeds of discontent has been sown, while Steam dying is far-fetched, Valve losing ever more relevance as a game dev company and before finally going full distribution company is probable

>>13976960

No, there actually was a time when Versus was fun, even back in L4D1. I'd say shit got competitive around the same time TF2 was becoming "competitive".

Reminder that the Moba craze is officially over and Dota has started to bleed users.

Now everyone's playing Battle Royales so eventually (pretty soon hopefully) Valve will lose one of their biggest moneymakers.

Sure, they'll still have Steam, but I'm sure not having the money Dota brings in now will put a small flame under their asses

>>13977149

>Now everyone's playing Battle Royales so eventually (pretty soon hopefully) Valve will lose one of their biggest moneymakers.

You know what that means, right? Valve is going to have to release their own Battle Royal.