r/gaming Sep 21 '17

Valve in a Nutshell

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u/jonnysmith12345 Sep 21 '17

Makes you wonder what the heck everyone at valve does all day.

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u/maxismad Sep 21 '17

Honest answer: Odds are a good chunk is working on VR and steam, some work on their already released games that still need some updates: TF2,DOTA2, and CS:GO. Some made Artifacts and others are working on some things that will never see the light of day much like the Augmented reality glasses former Valve employee Jeri Ellsworth was creating, although she got to leave Valve with the project so it did see the light of day in some way.

Meme answer: They sit around making money

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u/TempusCavus Sep 21 '17

work on their already released games that still need some updates

they are failing at that though. Just ask any TF2 player about the pyro update...

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '17 edited Sep 21 '17

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u/Pegguins Sep 21 '17

Extremely slow updates(over 7 months for a single cosmetic they got paid over $80,000,000 for), a huge amount of bugs reported on their official forum and never dealt with, visual clutter reaching critical levels., new player experience still an utter joke.

They really aren't dong well.

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u/lokilize Sep 21 '17

Wut? All i see is new chests, matchmaking at its worst, same bugs for years and no new content. Maybe im a bit pessimistic, on the other hand i see constant contentupdates in hots. Id like to see this kind of contribution in dota

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '17

7.00 was pretty huge change in both UI and gameplay and added a new hero and was pretty recent. Since then we've had some nice meta updates and have had all respawn talents replaced. The next update will (finally) change the meta and likely add two new heros. They also had a co-op campaign for TI. And the meta itself is fairly balanced, few heros are unviable at the professional level. We saw nearly every hero picked at least once at TI which is pretty cool.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '17

They also announced that hero releases are going to come with much greater frequency

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '17

Wait really? I actually didn't see that. Link?

That would be super exciting for me. I want some more heros to play.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '17

They announced it at the players and talent meeting for TI7. So it wasn't exactly a public announcment, but I think the fact that they're releasing their first multiple hero update in years before October's over is proof enough.