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Blazyr
08-29-2005, 11:32 AM
1UP.com (http://www.1up.com) has its second cover story up: STEAM PUNKS: How Valve is changing the rules of the game (http://valve.1up.com/). It coincides with the CGW issue.

The schedule for the week is:
Aftermath & Lost Coast
Episodic content and SiN Episodes
Mods and the crazy stuff you can do with Garry's Mod plus a ton of new in-game direct feed footage of HL2 on Xbox
Retro-active of HL and the story of Valve
Video interview with Gabe that gets into everything from the future of HL and Steam to next generation consoles.

Disclaimer: Yes, I wrote a lot of the editorial content. From the response to the CGW story I thought you guys might like to catch this.
Reanimated
08-29-2005, 11:55 AM
Episodic content...

When the episodes are 2 years apart, isn't that just a sequel?
FunkyPoopMonkey
08-29-2005, 01:00 PM
Episodic content...

When the episodes are 2 years apart, isn't that just a sequel?

Not when valve only puts a miniscule ammount of story into each game.
MosBen
08-29-2005, 01:48 PM
Zing! Hey oh!
Worldcrafter
08-29-2005, 02:09 PM
Bash Valve all you want, but the more Half-Life content I get, the happier I am. I've had enough fun with HL2 and CS:S that I don't feel Valve owes me anything. Anything between now and when HL3 comes out (free or no) is simply icing on the cake for me.
BleedTheFreak
08-29-2005, 02:13 PM
Bash Valve all you want, but the more Half-Life content I get, the happier I am. I've had enough fun with HL2 and CS:S that I don't feel Valve owes me anything. Anything between now and when HL3 comes out (free or no) is simply icing on the cake for me.

Crap. I just realized I'm going to have to re-install HL2. *shudder*
firesloth
08-29-2005, 02:19 PM
Well, I wouldn't feel Valve owed me anything, except that I ponied up the extra cash for DoD: Source. What a mistake. It would have been great at the time, but 9 months later, I've moved on...

I say all this even though I'm a big fan of Valve's games...I just think DoD: Source was pledged on a timescale that they've not even come close to matching. If they delay games, no problem...unless I've already paid for 'em.
Reanimated
08-29-2005, 02:24 PM
Well, I wouldn't feel Valve owed me anything, except that I ponied up the extra cash for DoD: Source. What a mistake. It would have been great at the time, but 9 months later, I've moved on...

I say all this even though I'm a big fan of Valve's games...I just think DoD: Source was pledged on a timescale that they've not even come close to matching. If they delay games, no problem...unless I've already paid for 'em.



It's the episodic payment system. You pay now, then they... ... ... ... ...




























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deliver.
Tricky Thumb
08-29-2005, 02:38 PM
Crap. I just realized I'm going to have to re-install HL2. *shudder*

It's actually not nearly as bad anymore, just do it while you sleep or something.
TheKeck
08-29-2005, 02:39 PM
Well, I wouldn't feel Valve owed me anything, except that I ponied up the extra cash for DoD: Source. What a mistake. It would have been great at the time, but 9 months later, I've moved on...

I say all this even though I'm a big fan of Valve's games...I just think DoD: Source was pledged on a timescale that they've not even come close to matching. If they delay games, no problem...unless I've already paid for 'em.

Agreed. And what's the deal with Blue Shift being released NOW as part of the silver or gold package? I got the bronze package because it appeared to have all I wanted. But I never got a chance to play Blue Shift. Can't they offer things as their own entities rather than rolling everything up into non-changeable packages?
XxSATANxX
08-29-2005, 02:45 PM
HL2 was brilliant! Only one thing can keep me from coming back for more.

STEAM
Tricky Thumb
08-29-2005, 02:50 PM
Agreed. And what's the deal with Blue Shift being released NOW as part of the silver or gold package? I got the bronze package because it appeared to have all I wanted. But I never got a chance to play Blue Shift. Can't they offer things as their own entities rather than rolling everything up into non-changeable packages?

Well I remember them saying they would be upgrading Steam so that you could pay the difference to upgrade to a higher package later on. Gabe Newell also said something recently about us all running Steam 2.0/3.0 so maybe the ability to upgrade packages is on the way.

I'd like to think so, though since I have the Silver package for DoD:S that's all I really need.

Well that and DoD:S ...
Adam Blue
08-29-2005, 03:26 PM
Crap. I just realized I'm going to have to re-install HL2. *shudder*

After reading that I peed in fear. I just realised I formatted my hard disk the other day...
Deadend
08-29-2005, 06:50 PM
So... What exactly do people at Valve do most of the time?
thecrazyd
08-29-2005, 07:01 PM
Make all kinds of crazy shit content and listen to assholes bitch about them on forums.
mister_slim
08-29-2005, 07:21 PM
Instant message with the 3DRealms guys?
Deadend
08-29-2005, 08:06 PM
thecrazyd, how do you know? I have yet to see evidence.

Mister_slim, a winner is you.
hg321
08-29-2005, 08:07 PM
So... What exactly do people at Valve do most of the time?

they play alot of TF2
thecrazyd
08-29-2005, 08:32 PM
Well, think about it. They are actively working on a completely re-worked DoD source, putting out weekly updates for their existing games, porting their old games to source, making TF2, and finishing Lost Coast and Aftermath. And that is just what they have announced.
Noman
08-29-2005, 08:42 PM
>>Crap. I just realized I'm going to have to re-install HL2. *shudder*

>After reading that I peed in fear. I just realised I formatted
>my hard disk the other day...t realised I formatted my hard
>disk the other day...

If you want to avoid peeing in fear, you can keep a backup of the entire HL2/Steam folder on another partition or a DVD-R and then just copy it to the new hard-disk. No magic registry settings to tweak. Just run steam once and after validation (only account login and password), you are ready to go into offline mode.

You can even backup individual gcf files.

Reinstalling the game this way after Windows reinstall or hard disk format is actually easier and quicker than reinstalling multi-CD games that decompress into thousands of files. In fact, if you don't have HL2 on the same disk as your OS, you can even reinstall windows and just run steam as if nothing has changed.
Dirty Harry
08-29-2005, 08:47 PM
Instant message with the 3DRealms guys?
If you email george he will talk to you. Often he will responde within minutes.
bapenguin
08-30-2005, 05:04 AM
Instant message with the 3DRealms guys?

That's pretty damn funny.