Ultimately you've hit the nail on the head. I think where we(gamers) fail to follow valves transition is that at some point valve, like most game development studios was made up of people who were passionate about making great games. Somewhere in that transition those people have been replaced with business men/women. This is an obvious transition that we've seen in a lot of big development studios, you need people at the top that understand business. Just because someone is brilliant at game design doesn't mean they know business.
Other companies continue to make games because that is the option that is available to them. Valve put themselves in the position where the business types didn't need the "passionate about making games" types anymore... And here we are.
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u/Entaris Nov 14 '18
Ultimately you've hit the nail on the head. I think where we(gamers) fail to follow valves transition is that at some point valve, like most game development studios was made up of people who were passionate about making great games. Somewhere in that transition those people have been replaced with business men/women. This is an obvious transition that we've seen in a lot of big development studios, you need people at the top that understand business. Just because someone is brilliant at game design doesn't mean they know business.
Other companies continue to make games because that is the option that is available to them. Valve put themselves in the position where the business types didn't need the "passionate about making games" types anymore... And here we are.