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@phylumsinter.bsky.social

Still thinking about how they absorbed Campo Santo

Phylum Sinter

Yeah, it seems like they were into that for a while... portal etc. and I recall they bought a studio or two to help finish Alyx - but given they're literally sort of the kings of pcgaming mountain it feels like a fart in the wind

doctober

@docseuss.bsky.social

seriously, I have always wondered this. They would get such insane fucking recruiting out of it too; you get to work close enough with these teams to spot talent you want to hire. it would be such a great investment for them

👻 Spooky Grayman 👻

@grayman.bsky.social

I think they've done a good amount with hiring modders and students in the case of the predecessor to portal.

My guy that was like 10 people over 20 years ago

but they will feel it in the long run when their numbers go down because the number of video games they're rippin away a third of the money from continues to go down in a way they could have avoided very easily

like who are you even going to be hiring in ten years, after years of everyone scrabbling desperately for a chance to develop the potential you're supposed to see in them... it is bad out here

valve sent me something once and their stationary bore the slogan "WITH EYES OPEN - TURN FORWARD" which has been pretty funny a few times at this point

Mando

@mrmandolino.itch.io

I think the idea is they don’t want to “play favorites” or something like that. They’ve been pretty explicit about how Valve’s underlying beliefs set is very libertarian in nature, free market will fix itself and all Not a fan of that “we do very little and take a big cut” approach

calicoday.bsky.social

@calicoday.bsky.social

Pretty classic libertarian behaviour. Always seem very uncomfortable with any real pitching in together. 🤷

WiserOdin

@odin032402.bsky.social

Game industry's going through game devs and institutional knowledge at an unheard of rate. It's be nice if Valve could staunch that even a little before we hit the 'completely out of game devs' part.

Kusy

@kusy.bsky.social

@ramboofcalrisia.bsky.social

Valve, the China of games industry. Potential and resources to completely change the status quo on many levels and zero interest in doing it.

Rambo Calrissian 🐀