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Today it's more like: "If we're making investors happy, the money will work itself out", issue is, investors are never happy, let alone remember you and beg you for a product after 20 years.
@@Daddy-Samy Investors are trying to profit off of you regardless of how much success or value you generate, they encourage lowest common denominator soulless garbage and ruses to convince people to buy your product without having to actually worry about quality while maximizing efficiency of least possible work and value. They don't care about the value of what you do, they care about wether or not you can make them money, thats the issue with publicly traded companies, they just want to make money immediately and have no foresight to make something of value when they can profit regardless by putting in a 1/10 of the effort by shitting out garbage. They have no stake or pride in what it is they provide, they are like animals and vultures really...
"If we make people happy the money will work itself out". This should be the most important rule of every business class everywhere. Way too many people do not understand this very simple truth.
Today it's more like: "If we're making investors happy, the money will work itself out", issue is, investors are never happy, let alone remember you and beg you for a product after 20 years.
@@Daddy-Samy Sadly in modern business it goes more like 'If I make the board happy, MY money will work itself out' - 'Customer who? I already got my bonus and I am outta here'
The issue is that the majority of people believe they can use short term profits and reinvest it towards greater growth and it works a lot of the time. It doesn't matter the profession either. They'd rather take and reinvest $3000 today than $30000 in 5 years because long term is way too risky. A lead on a project would rather not push back against releasing a flop and will instead use this "up and coming smash hit" to propel themselves to a higher paying job somewhere else.
I remember in my marketing class, my professor asked the class what is the purpose of our product. And most everyone said the stereotypical bs of "to make money." And he firmly told us no, your product needs to solve a problem/need of your customer. If your only concern is money, if your product only exists to make money, it isn't going to sell. It's mind blowing how many people can't look past more than just money.
They do actually teach that in a way in business classes as being good is great in the long run. The main thing is it’s not optimal for shareholders and company stock as they want the stocks to grow and make more money.
@ralkey I think the reason other companies cant do what he does simply is that he own Valve, he doesnt have to listen to some people in suits cause he owns 50.1% of Valve. I wish more people would not sell out and actualy keep their company theirs insted of having some people in suits tell you whats gonna make the most money.
@@TobiasLerbak Yeah I hate the thing people do where they normalize companies acting only to maximize profit and forgoing any ethics or ulterior philosophy, basically justifying the greedy shallow pos' who work for and run 99 percent of these companies making garbage, not only in games but in every other industry, because to people like that money and pushing their ideology is the only thing that matters because they are soulless narcissistic hedonists who want everyone else to be equally soulless so as to maximize their ability to control them via predictability and creating a docile population.
I kinda wish Gabe would just have people he knows make wild stuff up about him whenever asked about it. like, "I shit you not, i was there when Gabe single-handedly painted a clown face on the side of the Chrisler building using a bungee cord and some oil paints and brushes"
Hard for Valve employees to not think about their accomplishments and reputation when they have trophies on display at their headquarters (IIRC), the question you should be asking is if they ever get a big head. And the answer is they have a minimum of one time, I remember reading somewhere that they got too cocky when they launched Artifact. They expected it to not flop because it was a Valve product.
@@protocetid Which is weird to me because thats not reflected at all in any of their other products, all of their developments show soul and immense quality and care. In fact I think artifact is objectively a well designed game, it just came at the worst possible time and looked like a cash grab, people didn't want another card game, its not that the card game they made is bad in the sense of comparing it to other card games.
Rather he is Gordon pounding with different weapons (mind techniques) to the npc's , employees to finish the game of life and otherwise the G-man is the mysterious entity that governs the world and Gordon is working the company which is his other life.
valve is such an enigma. they are really the only big corporation that actually understand how the industry works. it's absolutely insane how no other company has executives that share even a single thought with gaben
That's simple: Valve is a private company and they don't have shareholders, so they are independent. For example, all sweet baby thing is happening because AAA games cost insane amount of money and companies need investments to make them, so they hire sweet baby and get investments from BlackRock.
As someone who spent my youth playing Valve games, these games contributed significantly to my choice of Computer Engineering for my bachelor's degree. During my undergraduate education, I became more interested in Game Engines and games in terms of engineering, so I started my game engine project and master's degree in Computer Vision and Graphics this year! Now one of my professional goals is to work as a Software Engineer at Valve and take roles in Game Engines (Source 2 and Source 4! We all know Source 3 is impossible haha) and games. I'm glad that I discovered this youtube channel. Thanks a lot for the video.
Gabe sounds like a well-balanced CEO. He sounds fun, educative and knows that devs need encouragement and help for refining their ideas in order to create a great game. I feel as though a lot of their developing time is used on innovation rather than making games and it might be that they have plans to make games and sequels but its all been put on the backburner. If they're going to make a sequel, they want to make it better than the last. I would like to know what ex-employees think of Gabe.
Valve is one of the very few (if not the only) AAA studios that I can honestly say I’ve never seen any news come out about there being rampant sexism or racism behind the scenes
and yet their 90% of workforce is white males LMAO. they still serve russian customers. they didn't even offer refunds until european union forced them to. valve is the only corporation in the world that gets extreme love for literally doing _nothing_.
"If we're making people happy, the money will work itself out!" Words that any game company CEO should live by. And it clearly shows (Palworld, Helldivers 2, Baldurs Gate 3, Enshrouded.... and so on)
they didn't make people happy, memes and existing for 20 years did that. valve isn't making developers happy either with their 30% charge for no real reason other than greed.
@@SINfromPLme when worldwide payment processing, content delivery, version control, content management, release management, advertising, community management, user-generated content management, multiplayer matchmaking, network routing, save file management, cloud save files, cross-platform support, platform achievements, leaderboards, item inventories, and many more features are "no real reason" for a fee.
@@kodicraft what a nice bunch of features that ties all of it into steam exclusive. Good luck porting to consoles, phones, or even different stores while keeping parity of features.
@@SINfromPL Go cry at sony/ms then, they get the same 30% from the devs, charge you to play online and have the most bare bone platform you can have Epic gets 12% and what do they offer? A pos launcher that is super slow and has no features besides lauching a game
Valve wont be no more when Gaben goes, thats such a shame, I hope Gaben just lets New Zealand government to nationalise Valve permanently and writes a law that Valve can never be sold or dismantled.
Cause valve is owned by Gabe (He owns 50.1% of Valve so he will always have the last word) Vlave will never be sold or dismantled. Most likely his son will take over after his dad, or someone like minded to gabe will take over and continue to work independently from men in suits telling them what to do. If Valve sells their company Steam is doomed for me. I cant see a future where Valve is on the stockmarket.
@@TobiasLerbak Its a lot of work to make sure your successor actually maintains what you built, the only place I know where this actually worked is North Korea, but I doubt Gaben is about to create himself a Socialist paradise where his children will forever maintain Valve Communism for eons. Jokes aside, Gaben would be better off enforcing Corporate laws that dictate Valve can never be sold or publicly traded.
@@SMGJohn Yeah I'm with you there, i wouldn't want Valve to be on the stock market, i only brought up his kid cause he also works in the gaming industry, so it would make sense that Gabe might give it to him some day if he wants to.
@@SMGJohn Yes definitely, Publicly traded companies are literally the worst of humanity, you are beholden to the most greedy most inhuman psychopaths on earth, traders and finance professionals, people who exist to take from others and who provide nothing of value beyond immediate buy in that is quickly taken away when a profit is liable to happen, or they just short sell it to profit off of their failure.
@@Nikotheleepic Yep. I want to say the CONCEPT of stocks and "fidicuiary responsibility" is only as bad as it is cause people are weak-willed and bad at politics, but I think the real issue is that these investors don't use the businesses themselves. Customers can also have "shares" of a company through leveraging their patronage, but they ACTUALLY USE the product and benefit from it being sustainable.
people bashed EA for mictrotransactions but when valve does the same thing it becomes cool. csgo has been used as a gambling platform for underage kids and valve didn't do shit about it. they are very succesful in making money and that's it. people shouldn't praise them.
@@ayboganhasan3734 With valve its just skins. Also the fact that some people use those skins on gambling sites really has nothing to do with valve. Also my original comment was mean to be funny as he obviously isnt really a god.
"Just skins" has kind of ruined some games, like Halo Infinite. Technically TF2 as well. Valve's free gameplay additions (not having to pay for l4d dlc on pc) can be nice, but i'd rather pay for and critically assess a new campaign, map, gamemode, than a cosmetic which can almost literally be ANYTHING, but people will still pay insane amounts of money relative to the rest of the game's value while being less discerning. You could charge a fair price for adding stuff to games that actually involves game design, while having systems that prevent a fractured playerbase (friends share dlc access in lobby, players who buy can access 24/7 weighted matchmaking of new content, etc.) Valve's been responsible for several bad industry standards (loot crates, "licensed" ownership, and the slackening of oversight/standards), but their games are usually great and Steam definitely has the most features. It's kind of a shame Artifact failed as hard as it did, but they were just asking people to spend way too much on getting started for what were digital cardboard pieces, when all they had to do was play the steam markets like they obviously intended to do with the volatility of those collector spaces. Plus having DotA 2 free, with all its action and strategy, had shot themselves in the foot.
@@LeMicronautcosmetic only mtx ruin games because developers for said games are either incompetent or constrained by corporate bs league of legends and path of exile are the perfect examples of "just skins" done perfectly well without interfering with the game itself
Gabe is the resson Valve is Valve, for the best and worst Valve as a company doesnt give a fuck about money anymore, steam is a money printer, and the only reason Valve is like that is because Gabe refuses to go public Valve notoriously has a very out there employee structure, no offical bosses, you have to rate how well your fellow employees work, people following the old heads at Valve say, giving those old heads a very overarching amount of power, thats because of Gabe, the only one with an offical boss title is Gabe, hes the CEO, hes the only one that could assign management, and he doesn't Valve notoriously allows for you to jump between projects at will, but due to the fact you will be rated by fellow coworkers you still are pushed towards certain projects, if your working on something others dont deem valuable, they will rate you lower, which is why things like TF2 being abandoned happen, do you really think NO ONE at Valve wants to work on TF2? Of course not, but if someone says "Im going to make TF2 my main project" they will be rated lower as TF2 is deemed a low priority, at the same time this is the only reason things like the steam deck exsit, a team at Valve started working on it and a lot of other people liked the idea and rated them favorably, again this system is Gabes doing Valve as a company remains small for the income they make, only around 400 employees, which makes them as profitable as companies the size of Microsoft, this, again, is due to Gabe, he decided hiring would be done by Valve, not a team in Valve, anyone at Valve, if you wanted to be a dev at Valve, youd be interviewed by a dev, not someone whos part of the onboarding team, there is no onboarding team, same goes for any role at Valve, if you want to be part of Valves accounting team, a member of the accounting team interviews you, on one hand this means that interviewes are much less formal and organized which can allow for people to fully show their talant, on the other hand not having a dedicated team means that Valve isnt ever constantly hiring, getting a job at Valve is rare, not only do you have to hope SOMEONE sees your application, you have to hope to death the person interviewing you likes not just you, but believes your talanted enough, Valve has a diversity problem and this is why, Valve only hires people with years apon years of experience, and because other game studios tend to have diversity problems it means Valve does to because Valve is bassicly only hiring peoppe from other companies, Valve refuses to hire someone fresh out of collage Valve has a communication problem, this is caused by the fact no bosses exsit, menaing that no one is there to demand better communication and because no one ay Valve values communication no one hires a social media team, all of Valves socials are controlled by the devs, so if a game (like TF2) has no active devs, the social media will be equally as inactive, theres a reason the offical Valve twitter almost exclusively retweets the tweets from the game specific twitter accounts, all that offcial Valve account is used for is devs retweeting the tweet they made on the account for the game they are working on Gabe is the soul of Valve, hes the reason Valve is how it is, the bests of Valve and the worsts of Valve
Is that really a bad thing, should valve hire people simply because they are diverse, or should he hire people with actual ability? Also do you think its better to have bosses and hr departments who have no care or understanding of what product they are producing as well as no insight into what it is one might need in developing these things? There is a reason valve games are so much higher quality than 99 percent of AAA developers, and thats because they care to involve themselves in every aspect communally, not just some career CEO whose only motive is profit before quality who has no investment beyond what they make beyond soulless monetary gain. I don't think any aspect of what you described is negative, even the lack of communication, gabe was right to not communicate and make promises that he can't garuntee, because that ends up making the company look worse and its also just words, it holds no value. Like people expect too much from Valve, a company that continues to work on a game that is 16 years old and hosts servers for it, can you name a single other free to play game that has lasted that long that also is fully supported and developed even today, yes to a lesser degree but the fact that they are still pushing updates when other companies would churn out sequels even a year later shows that vavle is probably the last company to have an issue. Again too, the diversity thing isn't a problem with valve, they shouldn't have to hire people just based on their race or sex, its not up to valve to make more women and people of different races interested in game development and if that requires a sacrifice of quality simply to have a token minority who isn't as qualified that is how you get the souless churned out garbage, because they hire people who don't even care about games, who don't even know how to make games just how to use unity and their art degrees to exploit the pre genned platorm template shit that you see everywhere. Not because diversity is bad, but hiring for the sake of diversity is bad when that diversity doesn't actually benefit the quality of the devs. There is nothing inherent to particular peoples that gives them an advantage, valves representation is standard for the actual demographic makeup of the us exclusionary to the fact that women are much less interested in development than men, which is again not the fault of valve nor is it valves responsibility to "fix"
"Valve has a diversity problem and this is why, Valve only hires people with years apon years of experience, and because other game studios tend to have diversity problems it means Valve does to because Valve is bassicly only hiring peoppe from other companies, Valve refuses to hire someone fresh out of collage" Its not a problem, also most software jobs don't like college graduates, if you're lucky to get a job as one, you'll probably get treated like ass as a "junior dev" only to be laid off before you get benefits because majority of the time you have very little to add. And generally the college graduates don't come out knowing anything about actually developing software, I've seen a lot of businesses just completely disregard college education and some even saw it as a blackmark, specifically when they mention that's the only significant thing they've done in software..
@@Spartan322 Yeah I really hate that OP even said that, imagine valve just churning out garbage because they listened to people like them to hire people with no experience or just because of their race and sex? God imagine valve becoming like bethesda or activision. The fact that OP even suggested this made me kind of angry because they are pushing an idea that could fuck up one of the best companies in the games industry just to appeal to some idiotic sense of ethical obligation that people inflict on others.
@@Nikotheleepic Yeah diversity don't mean crap, especially not in business, maybe diversity in thought could be useful in some cases, but even that isn't likely to be true, since if anyone is anything but left wing, they probably don't reside in an echo chamber and have confidence in what they on the pure basis of sharpening their ideas against the stupidity of the everyone around them. The only thing that is needed is competence, which Valve absolutely has, to work at Valve you need super high competence, experience, and decisive behavior, that's one of the reasons its a company that's both so small and hits so above its weight, and with how its run, you need these things in order to even function decently, its a company that tests you by its very structure, its a very real case of "can't stand the fire, get out of the kitchen" and Valve knows it, that's why they only hire the very competent, their structures promote a hyper meritocracy.
yeah this is an insane amount of buttlicking. gayben is just a billionaire who own several yachts. he doesn't do anything at all, other than enjoy life. steam isn't even a good product, it simply exists for so long that nobody else will ever be able to catch up (unless they start offering "connect your steam account to XYZ and retain your games" which is just impossible). people had their accounts for 20 years, they aren't going anywhere else, ever. absolutetly NOBODY asked for steam, and everyone HATED it when half-life 2 released. 20 years later, oh my, gayben is gayming god.
@@SINfromPL People weren't thrilled about Steam because people had bad internet connections, and were used to physical media, where you put the disc in, and play the game. People didn't like it because it was new. Do you want to go back to DVD's and 56k dial up or 1.5 megabit T1? lmao. People didn't like it because when it started, it was ahead of its time, now it's perfect. And other game distribution platforms can't match it. Name one with an equivalent to the Steam Workshop, or Steam Community, name one with as many good games, good support, and as good of a community.
I guess its always a bit scary talking to the boss of your entire company, its really nothing special for any company if you think about it. If you asked a microsoft worker the same questions about Bill Gates i think they would have been on the edge too. What makes Gabe so special is how down to earth he is and actualy respect his workers, i wish more companies didnt sell out and decided to just own it like game does. (he owns 50.1% of Valve so he always gets the last word)
@@samjames5183 Watch the documentary they recently put out on the creation of Half-Life. Gabe is great at dealing with game development. He was the one responsible for most of the creative decisions that went into Half-Life. He wasn't just some manager or money man. It's simply that once your company grows a certain size, you can't just be "one of the guys" as the owner.
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Sadly, there wont be a part 3 to this video, will there?
At some stage possibly if I get more valve devs
*"If we're making people happy, the money will work itself out"* god, if only other companies would think like that
Today it's more like: "If we're making investors happy, the money will work itself out", issue is, investors are never happy, let alone remember you and beg you for a product after 20 years.
@@Daddy-Samy Investors are trying to profit off of you regardless of how much success or value you generate, they encourage lowest common denominator soulless garbage and ruses to convince people to buy your product without having to actually worry about quality while maximizing efficiency of least possible work and value. They don't care about the value of what you do, they care about wether or not you can make them money, thats the issue with publicly traded companies, they just want to make money immediately and have no foresight to make something of value when they can profit regardless by putting in a 1/10 of the effort by shitting out garbage. They have no stake or pride in what it is they provide, they are like animals and vultures really...
Is there a galaxy large enough to contain such a brain?
@@Daddy-Samy I'd say it's more like,
"If money is money then the money will money the money."
Yeah tell that to looking glass studios. Valve is where it's at exactly due to correct financial decisions
"If we make people happy the money will work itself out". This should be the most important rule of every business class everywhere. Way too many people do not understand this very simple truth.
Today it's more like: "If we're making investors happy, the money will work itself out", issue is, investors are never happy, let alone remember you and beg you for a product after 20 years.
@@Daddy-Samy Sadly in modern business it goes more like 'If I make the board happy, MY money will work itself out' - 'Customer who? I already got my bonus and I am outta here'
The issue is that the majority of people believe they can use short term profits and reinvest it towards greater growth and it works a lot of the time. It doesn't matter the profession either. They'd rather take and reinvest $3000 today than $30000 in 5 years because long term is way too risky. A lead on a project would rather not push back against releasing a flop and will instead use this "up and coming smash hit" to propel themselves to a higher paying job somewhere else.
I remember in my marketing class, my professor asked the class what is the purpose of our product. And most everyone said the stereotypical bs of "to make money." And he firmly told us no, your product needs to solve a problem/need of your customer. If your only concern is money, if your product only exists to make money, it isn't going to sell. It's mind blowing how many people can't look past more than just money.
They do actually teach that in a way in business classes as being good is great in the long run. The main thing is it’s not optimal for shareholders and company stock as they want the stocks to grow and make more money.
I absolutely love Gabe as a CEO of a game company.
I honestly wish other companies can take a note out of Gabe's book.
@ralkey I think the reason other companies cant do what he does simply is that he own Valve, he doesnt have to listen to some people in suits cause he owns 50.1% of Valve.
I wish more people would not sell out and actualy keep their company theirs insted of having some people in suits tell you whats gonna make the most money.
@@TobiasLerbak Yeah I hate the thing people do where they normalize companies acting only to maximize profit and forgoing any ethics or ulterior philosophy, basically justifying the greedy shallow pos' who work for and run 99 percent of these companies making garbage, not only in games but in every other industry, because to people like that money and pushing their ideology is the only thing that matters because they are soulless narcissistic hedonists who want everyone else to be equally soulless so as to maximize their ability to control them via predictability and creating a docile population.
The CEO of Larrian Studios is kinda like him, more of an extrovert though
I kinda wish Gabe would just have people he knows make wild stuff up about him whenever asked about it. like, "I shit you not, i was there when Gabe single-handedly painted a clown face on the side of the Chrisler building using a bungee cord and some oil paints and brushes"
Gabe is single handedly writing all of the TF2 fanfiction. I’ve seen him writing pages of erotica in one of the employee lounges
I wonder if Gabe appreciates how influential he actually is within gaming and publishing.
Hard for Valve employees to not think about their accomplishments and reputation when they have trophies on display at their headquarters (IIRC), the question you should be asking is if they ever get a big head. And the answer is they have a minimum of one time, I remember reading somewhere that they got too cocky when they launched Artifact. They expected it to not flop because it was a Valve product.
@@protocetid "ever get a big head" what does it mean
@@nodrognameerfi think it means egoistic
@@nodrognameerfIt's when you use the inflator from Gmod on someones head. But seriously it just means getting too confident.
@@protocetid Which is weird to me because thats not reflected at all in any of their other products, all of their developments show soul and immense quality and care. In fact I think artifact is objectively a well designed game, it just came at the worst possible time and looked like a cash grab, people didn't want another card game, its not that the card game they made is bad in the sense of comparing it to other card games.
Gabe is the real G-Man. Periodically watching you and nudging things towards his ultimate goal
Rather he is Gordon pounding with different weapons (mind techniques) to the npc's , employees to finish the game of life and otherwise the G-man is the mysterious entity that governs the world and Gordon is working the company which is his other life.
If you ever make a part 3, please name it Part 2: Episode One
Part2+1
Part 2.5
thats awesome xD
valve is such an enigma. they are really the only big corporation that actually understand how the industry works. it's absolutely insane how no other company has executives that share even a single thought with gaben
That's simple: Valve is a private company and they don't have shareholders, so they are independent. For example, all sweet baby thing is happening because AAA games cost insane amount of money and companies need investments to make them, so they hire sweet baby and get investments from BlackRock.
As someone who spent my youth playing Valve games, these games contributed significantly to my choice of Computer Engineering for my bachelor's degree.
During my undergraduate education, I became more interested in Game Engines and games in terms of engineering, so I started my game engine project and master's degree in Computer Vision and Graphics this year! Now one of my professional goals is to work as a Software Engineer at Valve and take roles in Game Engines (Source 2 and Source 4! We all know Source 3 is impossible haha) and games. I'm glad that I discovered this youtube channel. Thanks a lot for the video.
Source: Alyx and Source: Global Offensive
@@tccraig Source 2 Episode 2
Gabe sounds like a well-balanced CEO. He sounds fun, educative and knows that devs need encouragement and help for refining their ideas in order to create a great game. I feel as though a lot of their developing time is used on innovation rather than making games and it might be that they have plans to make games and sequels but its all been put on the backburner. If they're going to make a sequel, they want to make it better than the last. I would like to know what ex-employees think of Gabe.
Valve is one of the very few (if not the only) AAA studios that I can honestly say I’ve never seen any news come out about there being rampant sexism or racism behind the scenes
and yet their 90% of workforce is white males LMAO.
they still serve russian customers.
they didn't even offer refunds until european union forced them to.
valve is the only corporation in the world that gets extreme love for literally doing _nothing_.
interesting to see that many of these devs seemingly play music too, creativity breeds creativity I guess
Most of the people in these two videos worked on the art production for the games.
isn't john also the voice of some citizens in hl2?
he is voice o all male citizen in hl2
He seems to have visions. I applaud it, fullfilling your creative vision is hardly ever done in video games.
"If we're making people happy, the money will work itself out!" Words that any game company CEO should live by. And it clearly shows (Palworld, Helldivers 2, Baldurs Gate 3, Enshrouded.... and so on)
they didn't make people happy, memes and existing for 20 years did that.
valve isn't making developers happy either with their 30% charge for no real reason other than greed.
@@SINfromPLme when worldwide payment processing, content delivery, version control, content management, release management, advertising, community management, user-generated content management, multiplayer matchmaking, network routing, save file management, cloud save files, cross-platform support, platform achievements, leaderboards, item inventories, and many more features are "no real reason" for a fee.
@@kodicraft what a nice bunch of features that ties all of it into steam exclusive. Good luck porting to consoles, phones, or even different stores while keeping parity of features.
@@SINfromPL it’s not valves job to make epic or PlayStation competitive
@@SINfromPL Go cry at sony/ms then, they get the same 30% from the devs, charge you to play online and have the most bare bone platform you can have
Epic gets 12% and what do they offer? A pos launcher that is super slow and has no features besides lauching a game
Best Gabe quote at 3:30!
0:25 “THAT HELMETS GONNA MAKE A NICE BOWL FOR YA BRAINS” -John Lowrie
Sometimes, I dream about cheese
@@CharaGonzalez-lt7ywOh god
Great kings are rare!
Valve wont be no more when Gaben goes, thats such a shame, I hope Gaben just lets New Zealand government to nationalise Valve permanently and writes a law that Valve can never be sold or dismantled.
Cause valve is owned by Gabe (He owns 50.1% of Valve so he will always have the last word) Vlave will never be sold or dismantled.
Most likely his son will take over after his dad, or someone like minded to gabe will take over and continue to work independently from men in suits telling them what to do.
If Valve sells their company Steam is doomed for me.
I cant see a future where Valve is on the stockmarket.
@@TobiasLerbak
Its a lot of work to make sure your successor actually maintains what you built, the only place I know where this actually worked is North Korea, but I doubt Gaben is about to create himself a Socialist paradise where his children will forever maintain Valve Communism for eons.
Jokes aside, Gaben would be better off enforcing Corporate laws that dictate Valve can never be sold or publicly traded.
@@SMGJohn Yeah I'm with you there, i wouldn't want Valve to be on the stock market, i only brought up his kid cause he also works in the gaming industry, so it would make sense that Gabe might give it to him some day if he wants to.
@@SMGJohn Yes definitely, Publicly traded companies are literally the worst of humanity, you are beholden to the most greedy most inhuman psychopaths on earth, traders and finance professionals, people who exist to take from others and who provide nothing of value beyond immediate buy in that is quickly taken away when a profit is liable to happen, or they just short sell it to profit off of their failure.
@@Nikotheleepic Yep. I want to say the CONCEPT of stocks and "fidicuiary responsibility" is only as bad as it is cause people are weak-willed and bad at politics, but I think the real issue is that these investors don't use the businesses themselves.
Customers can also have "shares" of a company through leveraging their patronage, but they ACTUALLY USE the product and benefit from it being sustainable.
I mean gaben gave the world dota 2 for free during a time when f2p games werent really a thing. Truly a generous god.
people bashed EA for mictrotransactions but when valve does the same thing it becomes cool. csgo has been used as a gambling platform for underage kids and valve didn't do shit about it. they are very succesful in making money and that's it. people shouldn't praise them.
@@ayboganhasan3734 With valve its just skins. Also the fact that some people use those skins on gambling sites really has nothing to do with valve. Also my original comment was mean to be funny as he obviously isnt really a god.
"Just skins" has kind of ruined some games, like Halo Infinite. Technically TF2 as well. Valve's free gameplay additions (not having to pay for l4d dlc on pc) can be nice, but i'd rather pay for and critically assess a new campaign, map, gamemode, than a cosmetic which can almost literally be ANYTHING, but people will still pay insane amounts of money relative to the rest of the game's value while being less discerning.
You could charge a fair price for adding stuff to games that actually involves game design, while having systems that prevent a fractured playerbase (friends share dlc access in lobby, players who buy can access 24/7 weighted matchmaking of new content, etc.)
Valve's been responsible for several bad industry standards (loot crates, "licensed" ownership, and the slackening of oversight/standards), but their games are usually great and Steam definitely has the most features.
It's kind of a shame Artifact failed as hard as it did, but they were just asking people to spend way too much on getting started for what were digital cardboard pieces, when all they had to do was play the steam markets like they obviously intended to do with the volatility of those collector spaces. Plus having DotA 2 free, with all its action and strategy, had shot themselves in the foot.
@@LeMicronautcosmetic only mtx ruin games because developers for said games are either incompetent or constrained by corporate bs
league of legends and path of exile are the perfect examples of "just skins" done perfectly well without interfering with the game itself
I mean he made dota f2p because league was f2p, it's not hard to work out
That broken guitar in the background of Mike's room needs some help
Gabe is the resson Valve is Valve, for the best and worst
Valve as a company doesnt give a fuck about money anymore, steam is a money printer, and the only reason Valve is like that is because Gabe refuses to go public
Valve notoriously has a very out there employee structure, no offical bosses, you have to rate how well your fellow employees work, people following the old heads at Valve say, giving those old heads a very overarching amount of power, thats because of Gabe, the only one with an offical boss title is Gabe, hes the CEO, hes the only one that could assign management, and he doesn't
Valve notoriously allows for you to jump between projects at will, but due to the fact you will be rated by fellow coworkers you still are pushed towards certain projects, if your working on something others dont deem valuable, they will rate you lower, which is why things like TF2 being abandoned happen, do you really think NO ONE at Valve wants to work on TF2? Of course not, but if someone says "Im going to make TF2 my main project" they will be rated lower as TF2 is deemed a low priority, at the same time this is the only reason things like the steam deck exsit, a team at Valve started working on it and a lot of other people liked the idea and rated them favorably, again this system is Gabes doing
Valve as a company remains small for the income they make, only around 400 employees, which makes them as profitable as companies the size of Microsoft, this, again, is due to Gabe, he decided hiring would be done by Valve, not a team in Valve, anyone at Valve, if you wanted to be a dev at Valve, youd be interviewed by a dev, not someone whos part of the onboarding team, there is no onboarding team, same goes for any role at Valve, if you want to be part of Valves accounting team, a member of the accounting team interviews you, on one hand this means that interviewes are much less formal and organized which can allow for people to fully show their talant, on the other hand not having a dedicated team means that Valve isnt ever constantly hiring, getting a job at Valve is rare, not only do you have to hope SOMEONE sees your application, you have to hope to death the person interviewing you likes not just you, but believes your talanted enough, Valve has a diversity problem and this is why, Valve only hires people with years apon years of experience, and because other game studios tend to have diversity problems it means Valve does to because Valve is bassicly only hiring peoppe from other companies, Valve refuses to hire someone fresh out of collage
Valve has a communication problem, this is caused by the fact no bosses exsit, menaing that no one is there to demand better communication and because no one ay Valve values communication no one hires a social media team, all of Valves socials are controlled by the devs, so if a game (like TF2) has no active devs, the social media will be equally as inactive, theres a reason the offical Valve twitter almost exclusively retweets the tweets from the game specific twitter accounts, all that offcial Valve account is used for is devs retweeting the tweet they made on the account for the game they are working on
Gabe is the soul of Valve, hes the reason Valve is how it is, the bests of Valve and the worsts of Valve
Is that really a bad thing, should valve hire people simply because they are diverse, or should he hire people with actual ability? Also do you think its better to have bosses and hr departments who have no care or understanding of what product they are producing as well as no insight into what it is one might need in developing these things? There is a reason valve games are so much higher quality than 99 percent of AAA developers, and thats because they care to involve themselves in every aspect communally, not just some career CEO whose only motive is profit before quality who has no investment beyond what they make beyond soulless monetary gain. I don't think any aspect of what you described is negative, even the lack of communication, gabe was right to not communicate and make promises that he can't garuntee, because that ends up making the company look worse and its also just words, it holds no value. Like people expect too much from Valve, a company that continues to work on a game that is 16 years old and hosts servers for it, can you name a single other free to play game that has lasted that long that also is fully supported and developed even today, yes to a lesser degree but the fact that they are still pushing updates when other companies would churn out sequels even a year later shows that vavle is probably the last company to have an issue. Again too, the diversity thing isn't a problem with valve, they shouldn't have to hire people just based on their race or sex, its not up to valve to make more women and people of different races interested in game development and if that requires a sacrifice of quality simply to have a token minority who isn't as qualified that is how you get the souless churned out garbage, because they hire people who don't even care about games, who don't even know how to make games just how to use unity and their art degrees to exploit the pre genned platorm template shit that you see everywhere. Not because diversity is bad, but hiring for the sake of diversity is bad when that diversity doesn't actually benefit the quality of the devs. There is nothing inherent to particular peoples that gives them an advantage, valves representation is standard for the actual demographic makeup of the us exclusionary to the fact that women are much less interested in development than men, which is again not the fault of valve nor is it valves responsibility to "fix"
"Valve has a diversity problem and this is why, Valve only hires people with years apon years of experience, and because other game studios tend to have diversity problems it means Valve does to because Valve is bassicly only hiring peoppe from other companies, Valve refuses to hire someone fresh out of collage"
Its not a problem, also most software jobs don't like college graduates, if you're lucky to get a job as one, you'll probably get treated like ass as a "junior dev" only to be laid off before you get benefits because majority of the time you have very little to add. And generally the college graduates don't come out knowing anything about actually developing software, I've seen a lot of businesses just completely disregard college education and some even saw it as a blackmark, specifically when they mention that's the only significant thing they've done in software..
@@Spartan322 Yeah I really hate that OP even said that, imagine valve just churning out garbage because they listened to people like them to hire people with no experience or just because of their race and sex? God imagine valve becoming like bethesda or activision. The fact that OP even suggested this made me kind of angry because they are pushing an idea that could fuck up one of the best companies in the games industry just to appeal to some idiotic sense of ethical obligation that people inflict on others.
@@Nikotheleepic Yeah diversity don't mean crap, especially not in business, maybe diversity in thought could be useful in some cases, but even that isn't likely to be true, since if anyone is anything but left wing, they probably don't reside in an echo chamber and have confidence in what they on the pure basis of sharpening their ideas against the stupidity of the everyone around them. The only thing that is needed is competence, which Valve absolutely has, to work at Valve you need super high competence, experience, and decisive behavior, that's one of the reasons its a company that's both so small and hits so above its weight, and with how its run, you need these things in order to even function decently, its a company that tests you by its very structure, its a very real case of "can't stand the fire, get out of the kitchen" and Valve knows it, that's why they only hire the very competent, their structures promote a hyper meritocracy.
to not communicate or have less communication, is the best decision they've ever made.
I hope that Gaben finds a way to keep Steam active and great even after he passes. If not, our pc gaming years could be destroyed in just a moment.
Interesting video
Meanwhile team fortress 2: those bloody traitors!
Gabe needs to get these windows drivers out already.
The Gabe Strategy: you can’t sell out, if you completely cease all development on every billion dollar franchise you own
"We at Valve just want to make our players happy"
Make Half-Life 3 then?
bro valve really needs younger devs.
Well people aren't happy, remember the Half Life dabacle.
the dev looks so scared criticizing gabe ...
you never seen scared people then
@@KiwoeoeIt is totally understandable to be scared of gabe. On the outside he is a kind rich uncle, and on the inside he's a force to be afraid of.
@@dep90boi94 devs actually say the opposite, as evidenced in part 1
i am still afraid of his big wide muscular figure@@Baddaby
Ofc they wont go all in about their boss LOL. Talk to EX employee dummy. :D
yeah this is an insane amount of buttlicking.
gayben is just a billionaire who own several yachts.
he doesn't do anything at all, other than enjoy life.
steam isn't even a good product, it simply exists for so long that nobody else will ever be able to catch up (unless they start offering "connect your steam account to XYZ and retain your games" which is just impossible).
people had their accounts for 20 years, they aren't going anywhere else, ever.
absolutetly NOBODY asked for steam, and everyone HATED it when half-life 2 released.
20 years later, oh my, gayben is gayming god.
@@SINfromPL "steam isn't even a good product" after you said this, i knew you dont know wtf you are talking about
@@monkaSisLife go ahead and worship big gayben some more, you're so pathetic you need a steam launcher
@@SINfromPL People weren't thrilled about Steam because people had bad internet connections, and were used to physical media, where you put the disc in, and play the game. People didn't like it because it was new. Do you want to go back to DVD's and 56k dial up or 1.5 megabit T1? lmao. People didn't like it because when it started, it was ahead of its time, now it's perfect. And other game distribution platforms can't match it. Name one with an equivalent to the Steam Workshop, or Steam Community, name one with as many good games, good support, and as good of a community.
@@hwhaht "ahead of its time, now its perfect" lmao, yeah you're valve-brainwashed.
is really gaben that a complicated guy? ı mean they talk like he's some weirdo they dont want to spend time with
High chance that he is autistic.
I guess its always a bit scary talking to the boss of your entire company, its really nothing special for any company if you think about it.
If you asked a microsoft worker the same questions about Bill Gates i think they would have been on the edge too.
What makes Gabe so special is how down to earth he is and actualy respect his workers, i wish more companies didnt sell out and decided to just own it like game does. (he owns 50.1% of Valve so he always gets the last word)
He is the white Suge Knight.
He probably is a weirdo and kind of intimidating. That's why he's best off in a CEO role and not dealing with game development
@@samjames5183 Watch the documentary they recently put out on the creation of Half-Life. Gabe is great at dealing with game development. He was the one responsible for most of the creative decisions that went into Half-Life. He wasn't just some manager or money man. It's simply that once your company grows a certain size, you can't just be "one of the guys" as the owner.