They obviously wanted that "thank you" png to be in a Team Fortress art style, that poster wouldn't have been possible by just using HTML text.
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They obviously wanted that "thank you" png to be in a Team Fortress art style, that poster wouldn't have been possible by just using HTML text.
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If you want to see developer commitment check out the guys that are working on Demigod.
It's like standing in a shop in the high street demanding that they re-code your broken game and then complaining when they throw you out
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Anyway, I think its a great idea and I would happily put my name down on that list. I don't think its sad, I think its a nice thing to do.
I bet this has been news in the TF2 part of Valve HQ and I bet they appreciate it a lot more than the majority of idiots who can only flame/complain.
Legendary status deserves recognition and praise, tbh.
I don't think people get that Valve have been working extra to deliver this free content and I doubt it was an easy thing to do.
Making all the art that has been on the TF2 update pages and creating those epic movies would have been no easy feat, THEN you have to consider the actual new in-game stuff that have also been worked on and released for free.
They gave the Sniper and Spy update just a few days ago along with new maps, again, for free. I don't understand how giving them a "Thank you" is considered sad. Sounds to me like the people who believe it to be sad are too scared to be considered sad by others so immediately deem it sad themselves to try to look cool and alternative.
Making all the art that has been on the TF2 update pages and creating those epic movies would have been no easy feat, THEN you have to consider the actual new in-game stuff that have also been worked on and released for free.
They gave the Sniper and Spy update just a few days ago along with new maps, again, for free. I don't understand how giving them a "Thank you" is considered sad. Sounds to me like the people who believe it to be sad are too scared to be considered sad by others so immediately deem it sad themselves to try to look cool and alternative.
Indeed. Patches galore.. almost one a day for the first two weeks! Add to that a daily dev blog update, a massive dev presence in the official forum, and free DLC/more features to be added shortly, and I'm gaining a massive amount of respect for the guys over at Stardock
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The CEO of stardock makes in depth daily updates on the forum about everything regarding problems people have, discussing details about patches they are working on etc
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Sounds awesome. Wish more games companies would do that.
Honestly, you must not be playing the right ones.
I can name two: CSS and L4D. And the only reason there aren't others are that they aren't really to my taste/I suck at them.
Stardock are good for sure, but i'd still go with Valve. I mean, who else makes 7 day updates with hilarious amounts of detail in them like Valve have done this week? Pretend leaked videos? clues in their cinematics about upcoming games and patches? a whole viral backstory between the spy and the sniper that sticks to the lore of the game when releasing their updates?
Plus, the number of jobs they create. I shudder to think of the number of Indie projects that have gone under due to lack of funds. Valve finds developers and hires them to finish their own games, gives them office space and awesome equipment and unlimited resources to work with, then gives them a hugely successful platform to release on. Portal for example.
Plus all the indie games they support by selling on their Steam platform. World of Goo, And Yet It Moves, Peggle... all these games would have had a fraction of the sales without people like Valve.
i find it so hard to not be a Valve fan boy, but i literally struggle to find things they do wrong. Perhaps they should be releasing their episodic content more frequently, but you know it's going to be worth the wait
Oh, and maybe they buggered up the achievment unlocks in TF2 now. I'm kinda miffed about that!
Plus, the number of jobs they create. I shudder to think of the number of Indie projects that have gone under due to lack of funds. Valve finds developers and hires them to finish their own games, gives them office space and awesome equipment and unlimited resources to work with, then gives them a hugely successful platform to release on. Portal for example.
Plus all the indie games they support by selling on their Steam platform. World of Goo, And Yet It Moves, Peggle... all these games would have had a fraction of the sales without people like Valve.
i find it so hard to not be a Valve fan boy, but i literally struggle to find things they do wrong. Perhaps they should be releasing their episodic content more frequently, but you know it's going to be worth the wait
Oh, and maybe they buggered up the achievment unlocks in TF2 now. I'm kinda miffed about that!
FFS When are Valve going to fix my copy of Quake and release all those long anticipated titles they have been developing such as: *insert game that valve have NOT developed here*
Sorry, it's Friday and I feel a bit frisky
Sorry, it's Friday and I feel a bit frisky
You're in the minority then. CS, CS:S, TF2 and L4D are all scary popular online.
I think someone posted the stats of Xfire users across the board the other day and there were over 100k people playing CS:S followed in second place by CS1.6 funnily enough.
Each to their own though, I used to play copius amounts of CS and then one day just completley went off it, played it, seen it, done it, done the clan war, got the t-shirt...you know.
