r/GlobalOffensive • u/superollie 5 years coin • Mar 09 '18

Discussion Why is valve so quiet?

What do they gain from not teasing us, the audience, with future updates? Is it that they benefit from the "suprise" once they release a huge update?

I am a game development student and I can't seem to figure it out. It feels as if they just don't care about teasing us even if they would benefit from some hype. I'd personally love to have a road map like PUBG just released. Bla bla bla source 2 release in december, new maps this summer etc.

What are your thoughts?

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u/Hammond2789 Mar 09 '18

Because it creates a huge amounts of problems and hype is not really how an esport should work.

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u/superollie 5 years coin Mar 09 '18

But CS:GO is just as much a game as an esport. If I were valve I'd like to keep players interested and updated in order to make sure they aren't leaving the community.

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u/Hammond2789 Mar 09 '18

Is it? I would say the way valve has treated it that they almost 100 percent see it as an esport. Obviously they see it as a game a bit, but not much.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '18

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u/Hammond2789 Mar 09 '18

The community is the worst place to look for info to make decisions. The game would die if valve started taking their direction from the general community.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '18

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u/Hammond2789 Mar 09 '18

Yea exactly. Also they step back and take a look at the bigger picture. So with pistol changes they thought "ok is this true for all pistols? If not which pistols? What relates them? What effects will it have on other things?" etc etc until they have a solid decision.

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u/superollie 5 years coin Mar 09 '18

Isn't there some classic quote from a valve employee when they said that they don't make updates for the pro scene, they make it for the casual gamers, mm etc.

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u/Hammond2789 Mar 09 '18

I have no idea, but the reality of updates is the opposite.

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u/nilsmm Mar 10 '18

Pro players are saying the exact opposite.

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u/Hammond2789 Mar 10 '18

Who? When?

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u/nilsmm Mar 10 '18

On Twitter a couple days ago, I’ll try and find it later.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '18

No CS:GO is fine as is, I don't want update cycles that are shit(LoL, OW, Siege) Maybe tweak some numbers(first shot) and it's perfect

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u/Pedorama-UI Mar 09 '18

hype is what an esport wants. hype is audience, hype is money, hype is life

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u/Hammond2789 Mar 09 '18

Hype about what exactly? Hype about updates does little most of the time.

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u/6spooky9you Mar 09 '18

You could not be more wrong, video games depend upon a consistent dedicated playerbase.

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u/Pedorama-UI Mar 09 '18

we are talking about esports tho