Mistakes made by Valve

[Omega_Absolute]

@JeffMOD

A couple people have said Valve doesn’t make mistakes. That’s usually true, but I can think of two;

1. HL2 2003 Release Date
2. Ricochet

Those were both pretty bad.

Mother fucker I loved Ricochet.

[Katana]

@nietzschesaurus

Steam for Mac is the single most horrific thing Valve has ever done. I don’t mind the fact that every game they’ve ever released has been called vaporware at one point or another: translating Steam to Mac ruined hundreds of mods, good and bad, and in one foul swoop completely destroyed my interest in the mod community.

all because they wanted to extend their reaches to the Mac.

MACS ARE NOT PCS. THEY ARE FOR ARTY SHIT AND NOTHING ELSE. IF YOU WANT TO HAVE A COMPUTER FOR GAMING AND ANYTHING USEFUL, GET A FUCKING PC. IF YOU’RE AN ART STUDENT OR A COLLEGE KID OR A RICH INDIE FUCKING HIPSTER GET A MAC. you mac users ruined the only thing we had left.

i hope you’re proud of yourselves.

Right and wrong.

Valve DID make a mistake by needlessly altering the engine of so many games to get everything on the same level. Until then, they had a mantra that made sense; to keep older games like HL2 working in the same way rather than needlessly increasing an older game’s system requirements with engine updates. Plus, some mods would still like to use the original HL2; that’s now pretty difficult though.

However, thinking that way about macs just makes the PC crowd edge away from you. As much as I love all the extra things my Windows computer does, I have to admit it is sometimes prone to extreme problems. I can fix them because I know a lot about computers, but many people couldn’t. Just someone who’s not a complete geek would probably have a higher interest in macs for their longer lifetime. Catering to another audience (except for the case of the above paragraph because they handled it poorly) doesn’t hurt anyone.

[ac3d]

@JeffMOD

A couple people have said Valve doesn’t make mistakes. That’s usually true, but I can think of two;

1. HL2 2003 Release Date
2. Ricochet

Those were both pretty bad.

How can you call the first one a mistake? They weren’t betting on being hacked by some german psycho.

[baconeggs]

Allowing Gearbox to put in useless and story-breaking additions to an otherwise excellent expansion pack.

Mindlessly updating TF2.

[flyaway888]

You guys found a lot of inconveniences about Valve but it’s about the slow development of the games;making of Half-Life 2 took six years, the reason? development of Source engine and Steam platform, now they have Steam and Source, a game like HL2 should be completed in less than 6 years now

[Maxey]

So far all games after HL2 except TF2 have taken less than 6 years to make.

[flyaway888]

not really, time of development for episode pack amounted, exceeded 6 years and was project after project, they finished HL2 shortly they start working at Ep1 and so forth…

[Zomosa]

1. Steam

[flyaway888]

Welcome to the forums Zomosa Steam is not a mistake, is one of the greatest achievements

[papernick]

So?

[DiePoente]

@Zomosa

1. Steam

It was… in 2003.

But nowadays, it’s the best alternative to Securom, the Ubisoftlauncher, Games for Windows live and all the other programmes, cause it has more features than they will ever have.

[baconeggs]

Fuck Windows LIVE. I had to make Fallout 3 run specifically WITHOUT it in order to work. Steam is easily the best game networking/downloadable content program available.

[OldDirtyBastard]

MACS ARE NOT PCS. THEY ARE FOR ARTY SHIT AND NOTHING ELSE. IF YOU WANT TO HAVE A COMPUTER FOR GAMING AND ANYTHING USEFUL, GET A FUCKING PC. IF YOU’RE AN ART STUDENT OR A COLLEGE KID OR A RICH INDIE FUCKING HIPSTER GET A MAC. you mac users ruined the only thing we had left.

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That’s the most retarded thing I’ve ever heard from you.

Valve DID make a mistake by needlessly altering the engine of so many games to get everything on the same level. Until then, they had a mantra that made sense; to keep older games like HL2 working in the same way rather than needlessly increasing an older game’s system requirements with engine updates. Plus, some mods would still like to use the original HL2; that’s now pretty difficult though.

thing is, they had to do this sooner or later, mac or not.

[Surplus]

@OldDirtyBastard

That’s the most retarded thing I’ve ever heard from you.

I agree, only add to that one bit make it.

@OldDirtyBastard

That’s the most retarded thing I’ve ever heard from anyone in a while.

It seems like people don’t even know what a fucking PC is anymore.

[flyaway888]

This have no sense…

[taxi_evil]

@Zomosa

1. Steam

You speak the truth, my friend

[Mr.Shadow]

1. Adding hats to TF2
2. L4D2 (Imo though. I don’t like it but there are loads of others that do)
3. Did I mention the hats?

[bur]

@Mr.Shadow

but there are loads of others that do)

then it’s not really a mistake is it

[saivert]

biggest mistake was making Half-Life. Now they are doomed to one up this miracle game forever.

[Pyroclase]

The problem isn’t Valve, it’s that you idiots don’t realize that EP3 being delayed is a good thing because they’ve been working on it that much longer.