Valve is a company of two extremes. They are both the 'Good Guys' and the 'Greedy Corpos.' I both respect and admire Valve in the past, but I find their current business practices despicable. Despite all the Anti-Consumer things Valve has done, Half Life: Alyx is a great sign, because Valve actively made a game they knew wouldn't make shit loads of money. It was the first game made with passion as the focus instead of making shit loads of money. So for that, I think Valve is on the right track.
Act Man son of God. I have been waiting in St . Denise at the train station. Please the time has come , I ask that you tell Arthur Morgans story . It was his dying wish . Please Review Red Dead Redemption 2
@@tacticaltwinkies3847 actually, the bots are a blessing in disguise. Now that no one wants to play casual mode anymore because it's infested with bots, we can all return to community based servers, y'know how tf2 used to be like.
@@williamyoung9401 he's going to have the coffin lead-lined and sealed with an indestructible salve so it can't open even with vault cracking gear. He's going the J. Edgar Hoover route
Great news, because of the leaking of tf2s source code and the resulting botting problem, its highly likely Tf2 source 2 will be coming after cs2. Will be greatttt Valve made cs2 to counter Valorant. Tf2s2 will be there to counter overwatch and other hero shooters. I cant name them cos i dont play hero shooters but yeh
I love how Act Man somehow still manages to include a Halo reference in every single one of his videos, even if the subject doesn’t include Halo at all
Honestly, the philosophy of "letting people do what they want" is cool, until you actually have to deliver something. Some degree of direction and order is always needed.
Agreed, but somehow the video still projects them as a bottom-line focused company. Doesn’t make sense. And that NDA is such regular practice - not indicative of anything nefarious
Important correction: Counterstrike wasn't made by Valve. It was a mod for Half-Life that Valve bought from the creators. It's also funny that Blizzard missed the opportunity to do the same with Dota, and Valve bought that too. So, an eye for good shit is also a part of Valve's arsenal.
I'm waiting for Dota world RPG they could do it, there are a lot of Dota 2 mod with good RPG elements and with the fall of DIABLO and other ARPG they could make more billions if they do that.
@@invoker6219 That's probably why they always encourage community support. I imagine Gabe knew he could use the consumer as an idea machine and capitalize on it while looking like the hero. He could pay them well enough, make billions, and nobody would be the wiser that they used the community to cut expenses and development. It's the perfect sociopathic plan for dominating the gaming community.
@@KTTstudios Well, they have not really, simply because they're behind steam, so basically they own the PC video game market, it's more to the eyes of theActMan, but nowhere near what Blizzard has become
@@lasterman94100 . So being a revolutionary in gaming and being the heavyweight champion in the PC market excuses anti consumer business practices ? As a whole they are as bad as Nintendo and EA. All three changed the market up (for good and for bad) and they don't get a free pass. Bethesda fucked up big with Fallout 76 and no one gave them a slap on the wrist and said "Well at least they redefined the Rpg genre, so it is ok"
@@Deadsea_1993 At what point did I support them in my comment, chill the fck out dude, don't try to agress me based on things I didn't even touch upon, all I said was that they didn't "fell" in the most common use of the term, because they and will certainly continue to own most of the PC games economy, which means that even if most people sees their evolution as really bad for the consumers, they still do finacially very well, unlike activision Blizzard or Bethesda which are on the losing side more than ever
I am so happy I was able to be a part of the TF2 glory days. It saddens me that experiences like that aren't really possible anymore, just to think of the friendships that came of that.
And they ruined TF 2 too. As far back as the Spy VS sniper update when careful considerations and design went out the window for "sidegrades" (Some of which were strictly better than what they replaced), the death of the art style they propped up as a guiding post, game balance, etc. Fucking shame.
you can't. If that platform didn't exist, you wouldn't have multiplayer for thousands of games, I still remember using shady garbage apps to create LAN with friends to play games.
@@KpK1Cioby i own solitary games that wont let me play offline with out a key :( thank you steam. for not letting me play games i own when my internet is down
“The Valve promises updates for you. Might be a lie, an illusion... But it’s there. Just around the corner. and it keeps you going.” -Pootispunk 77 (Ceno0)
It was fun, but for anyone who spent a lot of time playing the first team fortress there wasn't a whole lot of difference to it. It just felt like a re-imagining of the same game. The added bells, whistles, and gimmicks only go so far. I also hate microtransactions with a vengeance, so perhaps that was part of it too.
The fact they/one of the devs actually BUFFED the already strong Phlog to be unbelievably OP for a month....... God I felt like they actually didn't want us to play the game/give the game love.
All I know is Left4dead 1 and 2 still play like new games for me. All these years later and they still amaze me with how great they are. So much fun too!
I mean, as somethings grow, there are many other things that grow along with it. In this case, Economies across major Countries increase and slightly drop by the minutes, either rushing or flowing to get that extra push on what drops. The World is about money, now, more so than ever.
I feel like Valve is the case study of a company that captured lightning in the bottle and now refuse to try new thing because they are too afraid to ruin that image
Usually when a company... 1) Stops releasing games that the fans ask for, in fact beg for... 2) Breaks consumer protection laws 3) When caught, spends millions in legal fees and court costs to avoid giving refunds...the very reason they're in court to begin with 4) Inevitably loses only to continue breaking consumer protection laws and ends up in court again...and loses again 5) Then finally releases a game, except it's a disgraceful pile of shit pay to win game that nobody wants (Artifact) Amazing reputation is long gone. Just the lawsuits alone and Valve's choices are enough. It would have been much cheaper to simply pay the fines and give people refunds. A company once known for making amazing games is now known for being run by nothing but fat greedy assholes.
It's not that they refuse to try new things in fact quite the opposite they always want to revolutionize for example with half life hl1 revolutionized story telling in fps, hl2 physics and alyx vr. Behind the scenes they are constantly making prototypes but get bored or don't like how it's going and scrap it
Valve is like the ice cream machine at McDonalds that is always out of order. There is a documentary on it but in a nut shell, McDonalds makes more money with a broken machine in constant repair that it would if it was up an running. Money is made by exclusive repair people and taking a cut. They point out that other fast food places have their own ice cream machines from the same company, but they are not breaking down.
Uhh... Valve have tried making a sequel and got a huge backlash from the game community. Now after the sequel success valve take the community word and never to make a sequel. Thats what i remember back in 2008.
I liked the bit about VALVE absolutely shaking the foundation of everything they get their hands on, Half Life Alyx made VR not a boring BeatSaber only machine
@@justingovas415 Half Life Alyx is the one game pretty much anyone who has a VR setup capable of playing it has played. Seriously, do you know anyone with a VR setup who doesn't have it? I don't. It is the best selling VR title of all time.
I feel like tf2 went severely undermentioned despite it being the best example of how terrible valve can. Its the perfect example to see just how dysfunctional they are, as the case of tf2 is far more drastic than any other valve game.
Or the jokes. It is written in the tablets "For every Gaben joke, he delays Half Life 3 a day." We must pray for forgiveness, and maybe he shall return to us 🙏
As somebody poor, that's what drew me to Steam and Valve games. TF2, Dota 2, etc. we're all free games that I could run on my potato of a PC. VR is ridiculously expensive and that's the main thing that has pushed me away from Alyx.
When they said it was VR only I was pretty disappointed cause I personally rather play keyboard and mouse and after waiting over a decade a new half-life comes out and I don’t even get to play it which makes me pretty mad. This does give me hope for a future of half life being revived but idk everybody just wants half life 3 and to be on keyboard and mouse not VR only. To me it seems like Alyx is a test run so we will see
L4d 1 and 2 is what got me really into gaming as an adult (i was 18). I use to play daily. I miss those days on Xbox 360 and meeting new people. None of my friends now really game and it's usually a shitshow trying to play online on public servers
@@chymeow9207 I had the same experience like you! Left 4 Dead was also my introduction to Valve and their games but I did play the hell out of them on my Xbox 360 with my sister a lot :D
valve is probably the only big gaming company that is dumping money to advance the progress of gaming on linux. all their games have linux ports, and their vr headsets are the only ones that work native on linux. i can appreciate them for that
Tell what you want on their gaming development schedules and “anti-consumer” [fucking better than the other platforms by longshots] practices; Valve has and will continue to throw millions and work hard in R&D to push gaming to new extremes and accessibility, if it’s anything Valve loves, it’s community driven accessibility and supporting such ventures of modding, and Linux is open-source, literally the core concept of easily modified OS is something valve shares with games and no wonder they support it. They have faults but they aren’t a Bethesda or EA, theyre focused on technology than games, evident by the fact they are working with multiple companies in VR and even fucking BIC’s (Brain-Interfacing Computers) to advance such technologies to its best potential, and Alyx proved that by starting the push into VR AAA games.
This is because they are worried about Microsoft having control of windows and being a big gaming company at the same time. It's not because they are a good guy.
@@avae5343 yeah, they are a company. In capitalism (don’t know other systems) there is no good heart that lasts when they get big. That being said, as a Linux user I am very excited for what steam deck may do for Linux (even though I won’t buy one). Not sure it will be all (or any) I expect, but a man can only hope.
@@Tallzom it's pretty good. Personally I found it a little too janky. I feel like Alyx sort of cut out anything that is inherently janky in VR. like 2 handed weapons and melee weapons. So in that way I feel like Alyx came through a lot more immersive and polished.
@@justintime5021 well you can’t just say they cut out two handed weapons and forget about the dynamic grabbing system where you can hold pretty much anything with two hands at once..
@@Duckbusinessman I didn't forget.... Crates are not weapons. You can't kill an enemy with a crate. Sure you can hold onto anything with two hands..... Anything except any weapon.
@@Gigi-zr6hp I do play league but nah on the reddit part. Now I do give my lectures on discord from time to time but I try to avoid shouting into the void. Edit: no hate on those who do. I occasionally browse the subreddit and read their shouts. Sometimes agreeing.
From what I understand the team became frustrated because the game became so bloated, that adding or fixing anything with the convoluted code always broke something.
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@Don't Care sure but steam is one of first to have game collection and cloud storage. Most importantly servers, oh my God severs are AMAZING. ps 1 servers are gone, ps2 and almost all ps3 older games are gone, same goes for wii, wii u, Xbox classic, and some of xbox 360 games, all dead because no severs are online to let you play it. All gone, only on pc can you even touch or play games online, and I can only do it through steam servers.
Sad thing about Bethesda. Its founder partnered with a corrupt lawyer, who joined him in making Zenimax. It didn't take long for that partner to steal the company out from under him, which is how we got to where we are today.
Idk about this, I can't say I agree with calling valve greedy considering how many money making methods are out there for the people who invest in their releases
6:63 reminds me that for the official TF2 comics, Valve reached out to a fan artist because they enjoyed their rendition/fanart of The Administrator. From what I remember they bought the design and the artist made more art for them
We could have had a TF2 Adult Swim TV series, back before Adult Swim was a shell of itself, but Valve dragged its feet for so long, that the deal fell through. And now Rick May has sadly passed, so it’s never going to happen.
Valve *WAS* that kid. Now it's the entitled selfish 20-something who expects everyone to worship the ground they walk on because of past success. And kicks them in the face if they miss a spot then still tries to play the hero when called out for it.
@@Isaiah-ft5nx no no no no- smart small,learn to program, 3d model, and evrything in game develepmont, just make small stuff just for the learning and when u learn maybe u can go for the big fish (that is whataver idea u have for a game)
@@Isaiah-ft5nx Do it. But don't release Steam exclusive (seriously, growing numbers of people are finding out the client's been a health risk since late 2019), launch on GOG or itch.io or somewhere else as well. And I say this as someone who's made a card game and published it (and earned like $10 in the past year from it), so DO IT! Even if just for the experience, it's worth it. Yes I know digital and physical games are a very different production process, but I did the ezmode option of using a print on demand service for my game so I'm making (small) profit on every sale.
Valve was a Dark Lord, so powerful and so wise he could use the Force to create Games... He had such a knowledge of the dark side that he could even keep the ones he cared about from dying. The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. He became so powerful... the only thing he was afraid of was losing his power, which eventually, of course, he did.
I hate geo-blocking, I really wanted to pay or watch something at once and the only way I could done it was through other means then easily getting it through steam... (one of those things are Ghost in the Shall SAC seris)
@@andrescamiloramosr Basically what happened - I can't remember exactly when but it was a while back. People logged onto Amazon and bought the cheapest crowbar they could find, and had it posted to the Valve HQ in Bellevue, Washington. They got literally thousands of them and had to spend money disposing of them.
it could be a great idea like for example the expedition to the borealis went so wrong that nobody want to talk about it or something like that and you from the evidence left in game must speculate what happened or for exemple instead of being gordon you are some sorte of detective that have to find out what happened .
Valve has made some of the greatest games of all time, Half Life, Portal, Team Fortress, it’s a shame they stopped making games, with new gen consoles, one can only imagine the incredible and unique games Valve could have made, Half Life Alyx was a step in the right direction, really hope it leads to a Half Life 3 someday
Alyx was a VR test for Valve, but VR isnt on a level Valve want it to be to make HL3. Its quite obvious, when/if Valve is making HL3, they will do it to revolutionize gaming in VR. They dont need the money, they can wait. If its made, my guess would be, they will start around 2025.
Valve focus is still admirable with the tech upgrades and innovation They are partnered with many software Development project from linux accessibility, Development of Source 2 to VR. While also being in the current offensive with alyx,Dota 2 promotion and the current rumor of valve managing Thier system due to the pandemic.
Same, My friend showed me the Orange Box on Xbox, introducing me to Team Fortress 2! When I saw Misha a.k.a Heavy Weapons Guy, I fell in love! His size, his weapon the lovely Sasha and his voice! The Heavy made me laugh so many times! Then I saw the "Moments with Heavy" videos made my the amazing Kitty 0706 may he rest in peace, and it made me laugh even more! Check them out if you haven´t already! It´s a damn good time! Later I was introduced to Half Life 2, the art style, the universe, the gameplay and the story really gripped me, then one day a friend showed me Garry´s Mod! I was already into it a minute after! A game where you can do basically anything, spawn anything! It sounded like a DREAM COME TRUE! Now, my love for Valve has died down and I just hate them. How could they go from loving their fans so much to just see us as a way to make money with such low effort. Valve is dead to me and to the world, let´s be honest. They don´t do shit today.
@@superheavyxd2684 MAN! I loved Kitty! and yessss, i also remember getting the orange box first because i didn’t knew TF2 was free at that time, i just wanted to play that wi the the boys
I'll be honest, I love the 'wild west' nature of steam right now, even with the questionable releases like 'rape day'. I think it's important that we have places where anyone can publish art, even bad or offensive art uncensored. I might not like all of it or even most of it but I don't want any individual or corporation gatekeeping it. Theres a few experiences out there that most people would find bad but appeal to me and other niche communities that would never get greenlit otherwise.
@@brutusb8004 Ah yes, the 'if you defend a things right to exist then you must like it' angle. No, I think it's trash but if there's a market for it then it should be sold. I like games some people would say are very boring but it appeals to a minority of people who are very passionate about it.
What’s funny about Artifact was that, because its reach was so small, people were able to get away with streaming hardcore pornography on Twitch despite putting “Artifact” in their stream titles
that trend started with fans of livestreamer "forsen" when he got banned. Artifact was always a meme in the community, being a dead game on release and all, so they chose that to entertain themselves until forsen got unbanned.
I think that (despite Artifact existing) Valve cares about the quality of their games, and they don't really want to chance it by making another game in one of their critically acclaimed series because they might not be able to outdo what they've already done in their prime, and it will just backfire horrendously.
It's never happening, friend. It's been over 15 years of waiting. Most of the original devs, artists and writers who worked on HL2 and Episodes 1+2 are long gone. Not only that, there are 3 generations of consoles and young gamers who never experienced a Valve game being released. And no I don't count HL: Alyx, because the entire thing is a tech demo gimmick majority of gamers will never play. All it proved was Valve games are dead, and modern gamers don't care about a sequel to a 20 year old franchise, that they know the developer doesn't care about finishing, or respect their fans enough to communicate with.
Half life 3 won’t come until valve comes up with a huge innovation for the game, half life one showed off good levels and an interesting story shown in creative ways along with groundbreaking software and changed the industry. Half life two had incredible physics and graphics, another great story and many innovations that changed the industry and Alyx is the best vr game and probably going to be the new model for very shooters. Half life 3 will have to wait for something big to change in the game industry.
That's a a really good comment. Yeah you can really trace a large part of the success in each two games for the new stuff they brought forth. A Half-Life 3 with a good story and upgraded graphics would not satisfy everyone, although many fans would like it. Maybe Valve could be at the forefront of applying the huge developments in machine learning we have these days for stuff like AI, or maybe realistic speech synthesis, or something...
That's BS. The reason hl3 hasn't come out or maybe will never come out is that they've become too lazy to make the commitment to undertake a project of that scale. Steam has become a gravy train letting Valve employees slack without producing anything new and meaningful.
It's because they don't wanna do a project like Half Life or Half Life 2 again, it took them 2 years to develop the first one and 6 on the second one, they just don't wanna do a massive project like that again.
@Flatline I mean, I thought it was pretty self explanatory...you can be as nice as you like but you will never be big. If you want to be big then you need to build on a dirty foundation, then work on your image after the fact...
This and your Blizzard video are great, love these deep dives into the developer studios. Would love to see you do one on Konami, they're another big legends to losers story in gaming.
@@raaaaaaaaaam496 that’s pretty true. Oblivion IS one of my most favorite games but yeah... even for it’s time it was somehow all three of those. It’s like a game that’s in some weird limbo when it comes to its graphics, gameplay, all that good stuff. There’s enough reasons to like it as much as there is to dislike it
I remember the day it was announced that some big company I had never heard of was going to release a brand new version of my absolute favorite mod of any game ever. That company turned out to be Value and the game was DOTA. I have spent 15,000+ hours to date on this game and I will forver appreciate Value for helping create DOTA 2.
@@CybrosisEvolved They have to answer to their customers? This is false. They never did despite being slapped with fines galore by governing bodies that were TRYING to help consumers.
After Anakin fall to the Dark Side, I'm not surprised to see a "good guy" company turn into something far more sinister. I am always greatly saddened, but never surprised because if Anakin could choose a darker path, anyone can.
If anyone was ever pre-destined to walk down a dark path, it was Anakin. Like the jedi order who refused to see Anakins slow fall, we consumers allowed publishers to continue with their shady practices for too long
@@thelegolistme3250 how do consumers allow companies to fuck with them? Preorders and immediately buying games lmao. Look at all the idiots that pre-ordered Cyberpunk. I wanted that game as well but I waited and saw the bs. Never and I say, never preorder games no matter what.
According to my mathematical theory, currently as of 2022 “valve time” is approximately 32 times of the original factor This is represented by the original 6 month time for HL 2 p3 to 16 years Which is 6 months x 32 which gives us 16 years “Valve time” is an ever changing value, next year I’ll try and update valve time to its accurate value Yours faithfully Honor_
So, based on your hypothesis, I propose that the first derivative of valve time is not a constant, but rather is increasing as time progresses. Something like a hyperbolic tangent. Tanh(x).
@@garisonhayne668 I would propose that Valve and time are relative to another but should be viewed as one (Valvetime) and when a game is epic enough it can actually warp and bend "Valvetime" thus slowing it down. Then as a game is released the marketplace economy explodes sending skins and other useless junk across the market place creating a black hole that even the cents between the couchpillows cant escape the microtransactions devouring your savings. V=HF³
Hell yeah Acting Male, I’ve noticed the quality of your editing style has been increasing as of late but it seems you’re also uploading more often too, I take it that’s a good sign that you’re able to pretty much do RUclips full-time eh? Also, EmpLemon just uploaded as well so having an Act Man essay and an EmpLemon essay drop within 5 minutes of each other is just awesome.
i appreciate Valve so much for bringing us left4dead. i will forever hold that game dear to my heart. i will never forget achievment hunting trying to beat blood harvest on expert.
I loved playing both L4D soon after launch on expert with randoms. Very much a zombie survival feel, you managed to not die so far, these are the guys you get, fight or get eaten. 95% good experience too. I don't remember any really toxic situations, and even if sb betrayed you from the rescue vehicle 2 hours in after nail-biting session, it was part of the game and all in good fun. Then I'd play with some of those guy on versus. Good times.
@@ezioaugustus2621 Not really. They both did it jointly. Turtle Rock alone even with modern tech and experience from L4D1/2 made a far inferior B4B. Their effort alone is not terrible but quite mediocre. It's got around 4k ccu now and L4D2 is at 20k ccu so many years later. Without good ideas from TR it wouldn't be made, but without tech, attention to detail and proficiency from Valve it would never reach greatness.
@@ezioaugustus2621 Valve controlled Turtle Rock so that they wouldnt add anything they didnt like and poof it ended up being the much beloved L4D, now look at Back 4 Blood, TRS included the things they wanted to put into L4D before but werent allowed such as card systems which ended up being shat on by the players continuously plus L4D2 which is the far superior game to its prequel was developed solely by Valve. Turtle Rock Studios is literally riding the success of their L4D reputation, they havent made a single successful game since
As an artist I get how it goes when making things with no real constraints. sometimes having no deadlines or expectations can result in less artistic creation Valve devs have talked a lot about how projects pop up and then fizzle out and die. Just ask any art friends you have, if they've got a hard drive of WIPs that maybe "one day I'll get around to" you know that feeling There's plenty of passion, but there's too many ideas and not enough clear leadership to really drive home, "this is what we're gonna do" so lack of games being released means valve needs to tap harder on the steam/Dota pay out to float along, which pushes culture to be more profit focused and encourages some of the shady cutthroat culture between Devs and employees
blizzard, ubisoft, bethesda, activision, infinity ward, treyarch, rockstar... hell, every single gaming company has this phraze! except mojang, majang is a good boy
@@jockeyfield1954 Unsure how much I would blame some of these. Treyarch and Infinity Ward are developer groups under Activision, so they do have to meet whatever standard set for them and to do as they're told. Activision is a major publisher, not so much a group of developers as much as I know. Though if you know any games Activision made as a developer and not as a publisher, I'd legit like to know pft.
Given that Valve is hard at work in the linux community working to find a way to preserve all games with Proton/playonlinux/WINE after windows and microsoft implode like the hindenburg. Making games seems secondary
Separate from all of this, I am curious on Act Man's thoughts on the Steam Deck and what Valve has done for the (non-Windows/multi-platform) gaming community over the past few years
@@linkkraft3358 That clip is out of context. Prior to the reveal, Day9 said the following: ruclips.net/video/7y9EG7_B9bY/видео.html#t=8h33m "This is not an extra game mode. This is not even a game like CSGO, that's based on Counter-Strike, or Dota 2, that's based on Dota 1, this is a game that's an entirely new beast unto its own." To be fair, these remarks, while misleading, aren't really wrong. Despite its shared setting, Artifact's core gameplay is nothing at all like Dota 2's, and deserves to be seen as its own IP. But still, what Day9 said set the expectation of a completely new game with no ties to any previous Valve titles. The groaning isn't because of the reveal itself, but the false expectations set by Day9's remarks.
Coming here from your video about Blizzard is trippy. Valve is like the anti Blizzard when it comes to consumer relations (or at least they WERE!), but they still obviously have other problems...
I bought the Orange Box _just_ for Portal. Portal was probably the first game I remember being truly _psyched_ for leading up to it's release. Like, yeah, I would see other games in development in magazines, online, etc... But I would kinda just think, "That looks fun, I want that, I'll have to remember that one!" Or else I would get caught up in someone else's hype in the days leading up to a launch, even though I didn't know shit about the game (I was just excited that I was going to have a new game to play that someone else wanted to play rather than me bugging them to play something). More often than not my hype was for hardware, because I would usually get a game, look at the box, get pumped and then pop it into my computer that would then just smoke a little and fart comically at me. Portal was different. It was probably the first game I saw the trailer for on RUclips (before it came out), and I vividly remember that trailer. I was hooked from day one. I made sure my PC was up to the task leading up to it so I wouldn't get caught with my pants down, I drooled over every scrap of information I could find, and when I heard about how Portal was based on a college final project, I went out to find and download Narbacular Drop, and then I played the absolute shit out of it over and over and over waiting for Portal. I never became this hyped for any other game again, though Doom Eternal came close. Lmfao I remember getting the Orange Box and being a little annoyed. "What? I have to buy all these _other_ games to get Portal? Why can't I just pay, like, 15 bucks _just_ for Portal!? What the Hell is a Team Fortress? It basically just looks like RTCW multiplayer/ Wolf: ET? And _Half Life?_ Half life 2, and Half life 2: Episode 1? The fuck does that mean? Which should I play first? I'm confused." Then I played Portal, HL2, and then never finished episode 1 until over a decade later lmao. Got my money out of TF2, tho, which is good because the new freemium version sucks lol.
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Valve is a company of two extremes. They are both the 'Good Guys' and the 'Greedy Corpos.'
I both respect and admire Valve in the past, but I find their current business practices despicable.
Despite all the Anti-Consumer things Valve has done, Half Life: Alyx is a great sign, because Valve actively made a game they knew wouldn't make shit loads of money. It was the first game made with passion as the focus instead of making shit loads of money. So for that, I think Valve is on the right track.
____TIME STAMPS____
Introduction - 0:00
Rise of Valve - 2:06
Workplace Environment - 7:30
Game Releases, Delays, Failed Projects - 14:58
Steam Controversies, Anti-Consumer - 21:42
Exploiting Your Audience - 26:43
Gambling, Loot Boxes and Skin-Betting - 29:48
Selling Mods & Quality Control - 32:33
Artifact Failure - 34:31
Conclusion - 37:21
Lying about fallout 76 almost makes you wish that the actman would do a "why is the last of us 1 a masterpiece?!"
@@TheActMan "Why is kotor 2 a masterpiece? " video isn't released yet...
Influence lost: Kreia
@@TheActMan You should edited your comment :)
Act Man son of God. I have been waiting in St . Denise at the train station. Please the time has come , I ask that you tell Arthur Morgans story . It was his dying wish . Please Review Red Dead Redemption 2
"Blizzard, Valve, and Bioware could never do anything to lose my respect"
-Me, in 2010. To be young and naive...
The good days, first time playing half life 2 it just seemed so revolutionary.
CDPR is for the new generation, what Valve was for people above their 30's.
Amazing how the great falls in similiar ways.
Hey kids, have you heard about this company in Poland named CD Project Red?
The same with Grinding Gear Games
That's why you don't put your trust in companies, Follow the storytellers and actual devs.
The tf2 community has been screaming this for almost 4 years - thx for joining in
we will never give into those bots
@@tacticaltwinkies3847 actually, the bots are a blessing in disguise. Now that no one wants to play casual mode anymore because it's infested with bots, we can all return to community based servers, y'know how tf2 used to be like.
@@oldmanjinkinsskyrim737 and wait 20000000 years to find one with players in it, yeah no thanks.
Since 2017 they don't do anything
@@venturo3066 You forgot about the SNAKE UPDATE!
when gordon freeman has to make a video about being disappointed in valve...
Let the silent man speak...
He certainly is speaking a lot more than usually. He must be pretty pissed off.
Lmao
Gabe's Will: "Bury me with the Half Life code...so Half Life 2, Episode 3 can never be made..." lol.
@@williamyoung9401 he's going to have the coffin lead-lined and sealed with an indestructible salve so it can't open even with vault cracking gear. He's going the J. Edgar Hoover route
I will forever love valve for TF2, that's what started PC Gaming for me.
Same for me but I gotta side eye valve for being a missing grandfather of gaming unless they're dead.
Same
First thing I ever registered on Steam, I couldn't even tell you how many I have now
You should love the people who created Team Fortress 2, not the greedy company that is destroying it
Great news, because of the leaking of tf2s source code and the resulting botting problem, its highly likely Tf2 source 2 will be coming after cs2. Will be greatttt
Valve made cs2 to counter Valorant. Tf2s2 will be there to counter overwatch and other hero shooters. I cant name them cos i dont play hero shooters but yeh
I love how Act Man somehow still manages to include a Halo reference in every single one of his videos, even if the subject doesn’t include Halo at all
Lol
yes.
Im here before tousend likes
Here's your silver medal for being the second comment 🎉
It's a curse I have to fullfill, actually
I bet that if Gabe made a post on social media saying 3, the world would go crazy
Oh man that would've blown everyone mind.
RICOCHET -TWOOOO- THREEEEEEEEEE
3 new hats for team fortress 2
@@charly6066 that would be nice.
turns out to be left 4 dead 3 instead
Sending head crabs now
ROANOKE! buddy how you holding up?
just watched this mfs days gone virus video
Hey Roanoke!
Hey it's the starting with the feet guy
You, i know you.
Honestly, the philosophy of "letting people do what they want" is cool, until you actually have to deliver something. Some degree of direction and order is always needed.
i think its great to small groups but when you got a monopoly corporation like valve it extremely hinders progress
order is necessary for anything to continue existing.
Agreed, but somehow the video still projects them as a bottom-line focused company. Doesn’t make sense.
And that NDA is such regular practice - not indicative of anything nefarious
@@julianmangan9752It makes sense
"It could be a Chinese sweatshop or Disneyland for all I know"
You just said the same thing twice.
Hahahaha
Hehe what’s the difference -Patrick
@@TheActMan valve is not a completely evil company, at least compared to epic games lmao
@@sahymakhtar7445 and epic is basically Jesus compared to EA
@@sahymakhtar7445 Epic does not set a high bar to surpass. If that's the standard things are being held to, then God help us all.
Important correction: Counterstrike wasn't made by Valve. It was a mod for Half-Life that Valve bought from the creators. It's also funny that Blizzard missed the opportunity to do the same with Dota, and Valve bought that too. So, an eye for good shit is also a part of Valve's arsenal.
Most of Valve games are from a mod
Dota 2 = warcraft frozen throne mod
Tf2 = Quake mod
CS = Half Life mod
I'm waiting for Dota world RPG they could do it, there are a lot of Dota 2 mod with good RPG elements and with the fall of DIABLO and other ARPG they could make more billions if they do that.
@@invoker6219 That's probably why they always encourage community support. I imagine Gabe knew he could use the consumer as an idea machine and capitalize on it while looking like the hero. He could pay them well enough, make billions, and nobody would be the wiser that they used the community to cut expenses and development.
It's the perfect sociopathic plan for dominating the gaming community.
@@invoker6219 yeah but their games are rlly fkin good too HL2 and Portal
@@Isaiah-ft5nx It would be but they don't even do that anymore, they are that lazy.
This was the only appropriate video to make after the L4D2 video
I haven’t played a valve game but I’m surprised to hear they’ve fallen
@@KTTstudios Well, they have not really, simply because they're behind steam, so basically they own the PC video game market, it's more to the eyes of theActMan, but nowhere near what Blizzard has become
@@lasterman94100 . So being a revolutionary in gaming and being the heavyweight champion in the PC market excuses anti consumer business practices ? As a whole they are as bad as Nintendo and EA. All three changed the market up (for good and for bad) and they don't get a free pass. Bethesda fucked up big with Fallout 76 and no one gave them a slap on the wrist and said "Well at least they redefined the Rpg genre, so it is ok"
@@Deadsea_1993 At what point did I support them in my comment, chill the fck out dude, don't try to agress me based on things I didn't even touch upon, all I said was that they didn't "fell" in the most common use of the term, because they and will certainly continue to own most of the PC games economy, which means that even if most people sees their evolution as really bad for the consumers, they still do finacially very well, unlike activision Blizzard or Bethesda which are on the losing side more than ever
Yes
I am so happy I was able to be a part of the TF2 glory days. It saddens me that experiences like that aren't really possible anymore, just to think of the friendships that came of that.
I recently joined the game, no regrets.
What are you talking about? TF2 is very much alive and kicking
@@EthanBalkfield You right but the point is the health of the game, even if the game is good you can't say how disaster the casual it's is..
@@fenneck9676 huh? What are you even what?
And they ruined TF 2 too.
As far back as the Spy VS sniper update when careful considerations and design went out the window for "sidegrades" (Some of which were strictly better than what they replaced), the death of the art style they propped up as a guiding post, game balance, etc.
Fucking shame.
When I look at how much time went into Steam, I don't know if I can blame 'em for focusing on that platform :O
I am the cool kid from Germany making videos for the USA and the rest of the world. I will make your day so don't say nay to me today, dear ca.
you can't. If that platform didn't exist, you wouldn't have multiplayer for thousands of games, I still remember using shady garbage apps to create LAN with friends to play games.
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@@KpK1Cioby i own solitary games that wont let me play offline with out a key :( thank you steam. for not letting me play games i own when my internet is down
@@atticusherodes6648 you can literally play all steam games offline, the only games you can't is if the game itself needs online.
Clicked faster than Gabe running away from HL3 questions
Faster than Valve trying to sell you hats
Clever
@@TheActMan LOL i love your channel my dude, keep it up!
@@TheActMan *wandering the safe shallow in your seamoth*
*Makes you wish act man would do a WHY IS SUBNAUTICA GOOD JUST REALLY BUGGY*
This needs to go on r/murdered by words
“The Valve promises updates for you.
Might be a lie, an illusion...
But it’s there. Just around the corner.
and it keeps you going.”
-Pootispunk 77 (Ceno0)
I still play TF2 to this day because it's a fun game. It's just a shame how Valve's reputation has fallen
Act man: Companies strive to be respected, trusted and admired.
EA has left the chat.
Remember when EA was good?
Old sims
Need for speed
Battlefront
Etc
@@gentletal5101 We live in a society where honor is a distant memory.
And Activision.
@@troypowers750 Sadly. I have fond memories of COD3 and 2. And I know EA and Activision are not the only ones guilty of this.
@@gentletal5101 RIP Medal of Honor ;_;
Team Fortress 2 was one of the best games in the world to me. Music, idea, execution, movement. I just love that game so much.
Don't forget about their great characters lore and personality.
The characters are also likeable and the artstyle too.
@Well I just had bad grammer sorry it still one of my favorite games
Isnt tf2 only multiplayer tho? A shitty one at that? Or does it have a singleplayer that i missed out on?
It was fun, but for anyone who spent a lot of time playing the first team fortress there wasn't a whole lot of difference to it. It just felt like a re-imagining of the same game. The added bells, whistles, and gimmicks only go so far. I also hate microtransactions with a vengeance, so perhaps that was part of it too.
Valve whenever they see any trace of tf2 being alive:”I don’t know what this is and I don’t like it”
Pain.
💯
The fact they/one of the devs actually BUFFED the already strong Phlog to be unbelievably OP for a month....... God I felt like they actually didn't want us to play the game/give the game love.
well valve prepare an update for tf2
hell yeah and is gonna stay alive by the community
All I know is Left4dead 1 and 2 still play like new games for me. All these years later and they still amaze me with how great they are. So much fun too!
Constantly play each campaign all over again & enjoy it so much. Then replay them again.
@@miruharabaeim not sure any game has come close to how good the guns&movement was for the amount of zombies to could kill with 1clip.
"rose from nothing and fell to greed"
Sums up the whole video game world at this rate.
True
Seriously. And it’s a damn shame
It's the same problem with every industry now these days: The wrong people took over and theres nothing we can do about it.
I mean, as somethings grow, there are many other things that grow along with it.
In this case, Economies across major Countries increase and slightly drop by the minutes, either rushing or flowing to get that extra push on what drops.
The World is about money, now, more so than ever.
@@edwardrichtofen1252 people have finally discovered that money really does make the world survive.
I feel like Valve is the case study of a company that captured lightning in the bottle and now refuse to try new thing because they are too afraid to ruin that image
Ironically causing the image to be ruined.
Usually when a company...
1) Stops releasing games that the fans ask for, in fact beg for...
2) Breaks consumer protection laws
3) When caught, spends millions in legal fees and court costs to avoid giving refunds...the very reason they're in court to begin with
4) Inevitably loses only to continue breaking consumer protection laws and ends up in court again...and loses again
5) Then finally releases a game, except it's a disgraceful pile of shit pay to win game that nobody wants (Artifact)
Amazing reputation is long gone. Just the lawsuits alone and Valve's choices are enough. It would have been much cheaper to simply pay the fines and give people refunds. A company once known for making amazing games is now known for being run by nothing but fat greedy assholes.
It's not that they refuse to try new things in fact quite the opposite they always want to revolutionize for example with half life hl1 revolutionized story telling in fps, hl2 physics and alyx vr. Behind the scenes they are constantly making prototypes but get bored or don't like how it's going and scrap it
Valve is like the ice cream machine at McDonalds that is always out of order. There is a documentary on it but in a nut shell, McDonalds makes more money with a broken machine in constant repair that it would if it was up an running. Money is made by exclusive repair people and taking a cut. They point out that other fast food places have their own ice cream machines from the same company, but they are not breaking down.
Uhh... Valve have tried making a sequel and got a huge backlash from the game community. Now after the sequel success valve take the community word and never to make a sequel. Thats what i remember back in 2008.
I liked the bit about VALVE absolutely shaking the foundation of everything they get their hands on, Half Life Alyx made VR not a boring BeatSaber only machine
Funny you mention that, when BeatSaber still gets daily uploads on social media, while everyone has forgotten about Half Life: VR tech demo.
@@VitZ9 beatsaber doesn’t have an ending, half life alyx does
@@test_account939 It's still been largely forgotten. There are games with endings that are still being uploaded.
@@justingovas415 Half Life Alyx is the one game pretty much anyone who has a VR setup capable of playing it has played. Seriously, do you know anyone with a VR setup who doesn't have it? I don't. It is the best selling VR title of all time.
I feel like tf2 went severely undermentioned despite it being the best example of how terrible valve can. Its the perfect example to see just how dysfunctional they are, as the case of tf2 is far more drastic than any other valve game.
Yeah the last big update for tf2 was launched in 2017 and no one gets rid of those bots in casual.
WE GOT SNAKES
we got worms
@@FolstrimHori you're goddamn right
I still having fun with TF2 for all these years Xd
Maybe the real reason Valve doesnt release games anymore is because Gabe got sick of reading 10,000 emails each time?
Oh crap you might be on too something...
Who does he think he is, the Yandere dev?
Or the jokes. It is written in the tablets "For every Gaben joke, he delays Half Life 3 a day." We must pray for forgiveness, and maybe he shall return to us 🙏
On some Yandev type shit.
Guess we found Gabe's alt
As someone with VR i'm happy to see things like Half Life: Alyx but I admit it is a rather big slap in the face to everyone else.
As somebody poor, that's what drew me to Steam and Valve games. TF2, Dota 2, etc. we're all free games that I could run on my potato of a PC.
VR is ridiculously expensive and that's the main thing that has pushed me away from Alyx.
@@compatriot852 oculus rift granted its 399 but a full version system package
When they said it was VR only I was pretty disappointed cause I personally rather play keyboard and mouse and after waiting over a decade a new half-life comes out and I don’t even get to play it which makes me pretty mad. This does give me hope for a future of half life being revived but idk everybody just wants half life 3 and to be on keyboard and mouse not VR only. To me it seems like Alyx is a test run so we will see
@Snowwy do you mean you can find it for $243?
Isn't there a 2D mod for alyx?
L4d 1 and 2 is what got me really into gaming as an adult (i was 18). I use to play daily. I miss those days on Xbox 360 and meeting new people. None of my friends now really game and it's usually a shitshow trying to play online on public servers
You got it on Steam? My friends and I are looking for another teammate.
@I Slay Goblins only on Xbox :( thank you for offering 🖤
@@chymeow9207 I had the same experience like you! Left 4 Dead was also my introduction to Valve and their games but I did play the hell out of them on my Xbox 360 with my sister a lot :D
Yeah I miss playing l4d in the 360 party chat
Good old days. Nothing beats those old days of games bc the passion was there now days games aren’t passionate it’s cash grabs 😊l
Valve isn't a triple A company they are a double A episode 1 company
They're so good, they're actually an Alyx A Company
Espoide 3 for half life was cancelled lol
@@near5148 do u know how to spell Episode
@@coltforceplayer *Espoide
@@DreamyAileen oh yeah my mistake
The sentence is, in a nutshell : "Either you die a hero or you live long enough to become a villian".
taking an arrow to the knee is almost as painful as waiting for actman's why skyrim is so awesome
@@whiterunguard6415 Skyrim has to be awesome for him to make a video on it... Can't compare Skyrim to something like Fallout New Vegas
With Grinding Gear Games it will be: "Either you die a blind pioneer or live long enough to become a shitty version of EA"
@@whiterunguard6415 please don’t stop spamming this under act mans videos! We NEED a Skyrim video lol. Subbed to u for fighting the good fight
@@andrewscocozza4340 thanks dude, spread the good word of skyrim.
valve is probably the only big gaming company that is dumping money to advance the progress of gaming on linux. all their games have linux ports, and their vr headsets are the only ones that work native on linux. i can appreciate them for that
Tell what you want on their gaming development schedules and “anti-consumer” [fucking better than the other platforms by longshots] practices; Valve has and will continue to throw millions and work hard in R&D to push gaming to new extremes and accessibility, if it’s anything Valve loves, it’s community driven accessibility and supporting such ventures of modding, and Linux is open-source, literally the core concept of easily modified OS is something valve shares with games and no wonder they support it. They have faults but they aren’t a Bethesda or EA, theyre focused on technology than games, evident by the fact they are working with multiple companies in VR and even fucking BIC’s (Brain-Interfacing Computers) to advance such technologies to its best potential, and Alyx proved that by starting the push into VR AAA games.
This is because they are worried about Microsoft having control of windows and being a big gaming company at the same time. It's not because they are a good guy.
@@darkmaster539 Valve includes support for Linux and windows because Microsoft "controls" windows? How does that make any sense?
@@avae5343 yeah, they are a company. In capitalism (don’t know other systems) there is no good heart that lasts when they get big. That being said, as a Linux user I am very excited for what steam deck may do for Linux (even though I won’t buy one). Not sure it will be all (or any) I expect, but a man can only hope.
I would love to see what @Act Man has to say specifically about Valve third side (Linux and etecetera)
After playing Alyx I want more of that... That game raised the bar so damn high for VR that all the other VR games look incompetent by comparison.
Boneworks still was incredible and honestly far better in terms of player freedom
@@Tallzom it's pretty good. Personally I found it a little too janky. I feel like Alyx sort of cut out anything that is inherently janky in VR. like 2 handed weapons and melee weapons. So in that way I feel like Alyx came through a lot more immersive and polished.
@@justintime5021 well you can’t just say they cut out two handed weapons and forget about the dynamic grabbing system where you can hold pretty much anything with two hands at once..
@@Duckbusinessman I didn't forget.... Crates are not weapons. You can't kill an enemy with a crate. Sure you can hold onto anything with two hands..... Anything except any weapon.
@@justintime5021 ok? So what makes a two handed weapon more janky than holding anything else with two hands?
The Hate is an essential part of loving a game.
Fax
The way you know I like something is I critique it heavily.
D2 community from my experience lol they literally got #nerfstasis trending
@@mBowK You must be a League of Legends player posting 15 paragraph essay on r/leagueoflegends
@@Gigi-zr6hp I do play league but nah on the reddit part. Now I do give my lectures on discord from time to time but I try to avoid shouting into the void.
Edit: no hate on those who do. I occasionally browse the subreddit and read their shouts. Sometimes agreeing.
the only place where valve´s fall is undeniable is tf2, they killed the best hero shooter because it wasnt bringing the dough...
“Frickin’ unbelievable”
- Scout
I wouldn't say it's the only place where their downfall is undeniable, but it's certainly one of the most grievous examples (if not the most).
From what I understand the team became frustrated because the game became so bloated, that adding or fixing anything with the convoluted code always broke something.
What's funny is that TF2 is definitely profitable, it's one of the biggest games on Steam, Valve just got bored of it.
They're killing it by not caring about it
The TF2 soundtrack is criminally underrated
In this video or the TF2 soundtrack overall? Because if the latter, you'd be talking at a wall because everyone knows the TF2 soundtrack is a banger.
"INTRUDER ALERT, RED SPY IN BLU BASE."
"There's a RED Spy in BLU base?"
_pit tam poom DEAUN DEAUN_
_Dun Dun Dun, DUN Dun DUN_
'hut hut hut hut hut hut'
*"PROTECT THE BRIEFCASE!"*
That’s an understatement
Not really
Not really
Valve really did create modern gaming...
Lmao.
true
Not even close
@@MortCodesWeb tell me you're a casual gamer without telling me
@Don't Care sure but steam is one of first to have game collection and cloud storage. Most importantly servers, oh my God severs are AMAZING. ps 1 servers are gone, ps2 and almost all ps3 older games are gone, same goes for wii, wii u, Xbox classic, and some of xbox 360 games, all dead because no severs are online to let you play it.
All gone, only on pc can you even touch or play games online, and I can only do it through steam servers.
The tf2 ost is one of the most hype soundtracks ever
Meet the like button
@@a-10warthog78 TU,TU,TUT!
I don't know what to start with you. I mean,do you even know who you like tho?
@@lestranger7440 I met this really cool Panzer VI once, she had a nice machine gun... but she was too old and ended up in a museum.
Gamers: God I can't believe Valve doesnt make games anymore and just absorbs money from steam
Valve: *[internally screaming about Source 2]*
that engines going to be 200 years in development before they decide to do anything major with it. our grandkids will be able to enjoy source 2
@@Mr_War_ HLA is made with it and the S&box team finally finished the SDK
@@Mr_War_ and dota 2 after Wukong update using early stage of source 2
The funny thing about Gabe and Microsoft is that gabe worked on Windows 1 ,windows 2 and windows 2.1
So that is why he cant make a 3rd part
Imagine if that was an inside joke Gabe's so committed to even until now..
LOL this is an underrated comment lol
You either die a hero(valve) or live long enough to see yourself become a villain(Bethesda)
Valve died in 2011
Sad thing about Bethesda. Its founder partnered with a corrupt lawyer, who joined him in making Zenimax. It didn't take long for that partner to steal the company out from under him, which is how we got to where we are today.
(Watching this on my steam deck)- “i see what your saying bro…”
As did Rockstar games, they died in 2013/14.
@@Abel-Alvarez why 2014? i thought it was shortly after RDR2’s release
that 2nd one also describes EA perfectly well too
I thought Valve had a new rise with Alyx but knowing what you explained, I gotta agreed.
THEY ARE HARVEY DENT OMG!!
Honestly Alyx feels more like a demo of a game.
@@MagicHamsta have you played alyx?
@@MagicHamsta what?
Half Life Alyx was a fantastic game. So much immersion and attention to detail.
oh BABY i've been waiting for this
Indie baby
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3:16 that was the best transition in the history of transitions my dude hahahaha I love your vids!💙💯👌🏼
“We are concerned that Valve may be replicating the experience for which EA is known.” Keep the meme alive
"We are concerned that this coment may be replicating the expirience that PUBG is known for"
@B T R Something similar. Check out the Tragedy of PUBG. The exact quote is in the first few minutes of the video.
@B T R yep the devs said that about fortnite
That is the origin
@@stoyangenov6793 we are concerned that this reply may be replicating the experience for which YT comments is known for.
It’s such a shame that so many beloved companies fall to greed
Valve, Rockstar, Blizzard, EA, etc. Our generation has experienced the rise and fall of these great companies.
Bungie as well
Idk about this, I can't say I agree with calling valve greedy considering how many money making methods are out there for the people who invest in their releases
@@sauzeeee why rockstar?
@Rahul 007 supercell what? lol. i don't think they were ever considered a good company. only releasing p2w games
"Valve really has become Harvey Dent, two sides of the same coin, one good, one evil"
Perfectly put, The Act Man.
Hyori ittai yubi de hajiku koin ga sora ni mau
Do I detect a problem with figures of speech?
Gimme this mustache
This guy comments everywhere
LMFAOOOOOOOOOOO YOU ARE HERE TOO!
6:63 reminds me that for the official TF2 comics, Valve reached out to a fan artist because they enjoyed their rendition/fanart of The Administrator. From what I remember they bought the design and the artist made more art for them
We could have had a TF2 Adult Swim TV series, back before Adult Swim was a shell of itself, but Valve dragged its feet for so long, that the deal fell through.
And now Rick May has sadly passed, so it’s never going to happen.
what about a Venture Bros cross over??
@@mariano98ify i don’t even know what that is
@@blaniac6591 sacrilege, check YT
@@mariano98ify Venture Bros got canceled.
@@ranfan1820 I know, fucking sad
For me Valve is like that child who is very lazy in doing things, but when he does them they are great
"Brilliant but lazy" - Spider-Man 2
Valve *WAS* that kid. Now it's the entitled selfish 20-something who expects everyone to worship the ground they walk on because of past success. And kicks them in the face if they miss a spot then still tries to play the hero when called out for it.
Yep, just like me. I'm gonna make the best game ever, as soon as I get off my butt to do it. 😂
@@Isaiah-ft5nx no no no no- smart small,learn to program, 3d model, and evrything in game develepmont, just make small stuff just for the learning and when u learn maybe u can go for the big fish (that is whataver idea u have for a game)
@@Isaiah-ft5nx Do it. But don't release Steam exclusive (seriously, growing numbers of people are finding out the client's been a health risk since late 2019), launch on GOG or itch.io or somewhere else as well.
And I say this as someone who's made a card game and published it (and earned like $10 in the past year from it), so DO IT! Even if just for the experience, it's worth it. Yes I know digital and physical games are a very different production process, but I did the ezmode option of using a print on demand service for my game so I'm making (small) profit on every sale.
“Did you ever hear the tragedy of the legendary Valve?”
(Slight head turn) No
Valve was a Dark Lord, so powerful and so wise he could use the Force to create Games... He had such a knowledge of the dark side that he could even keep the ones he cared about from dying. The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. He became so powerful... the only thing he was afraid of was losing his power, which eventually, of course, he did.
taking an arrow to the knee is almost as painful as waiting for actman's why skyrim is so awesome
@@whiterunguard6415 I’d be down to watch act man give a review over Skyrim
I thought not. It's not a story Epic Games would tell you.
I hate geo-blocking, I really wanted to pay or watch something at once and the only way I could done it was through other means then easily getting it through steam... (one of those things are Ghost in the Shall SAC seris)
Anyone else remember operation crow bar when people started mass mailing crow bars to Valve as a protest for no info on HL3?
Holly shit, I never know about it, the power of internet and memes is understimated
@@andrescamiloramosr Basically what happened - I can't remember exactly when but it was a while back. People logged onto Amazon and bought the cheapest crowbar they could find, and had it posted to the Valve HQ in Bellevue, Washington.
They got literally thousands of them and had to spend money disposing of them.
@@AtemiRaven . . . Hold my credit card
The greatest troll of all time would be if they titled their next Half-Life installment "Half-Life 4."
For some reason, I would love this to happen.
it could be a great idea like for example the expedition to the borealis went so wrong that nobody want to talk about it or something like that and you from the evidence left in game must speculate what happened or for exemple instead of being gordon you are some sorte of detective that have to find out what happened .
Half 4 Life
@@igorkoskin5214 - 4 Half 4 Furious.
@Ecard Ecardian Then make Half-Life 4 the prequel, which is actually Half-Life 3 to fill in the gaps, but they won't have called it 3.
Me, who bought The Orange Box for £6:
*_This is business baby_*
I bought it for 4 and got half life with it, take that
6 what?
@@javierriveraparra7429 pound
I HAD A PLAN
@@thenameusmitch5270 sure you did
Valve has made some of the greatest games of all time, Half Life, Portal, Team Fortress, it’s a shame they stopped making games, with new gen consoles, one can only imagine the incredible and unique games Valve could have made, Half Life Alyx was a step in the right direction, really hope it leads to a Half Life 3 someday
Half life 3 has to come out sometime in the next 3-4 years,that cliffhanger at the end of alyx is so fucking good and it perfectly sets the game up.
@@parizer9394 everyone knows valve cant get to 3 they never made portal 3 half life 3 nothing is 3
@@hjrgf k
Alyx was a VR test for Valve, but VR isnt on a level Valve want it to be to make HL3. Its quite obvious, when/if Valve is making HL3, they will do it to revolutionize gaming in VR. They dont need the money, they can wait. If its made, my guess would be, they will start around 2025.
@@Bhavyo the fuck do you mean it was a test?
it makes me sad that the company that introduced me to gaming it’s exactly the one that doesn’t make games anymore xd
Valve focus is still admirable with the tech upgrades and innovation
They are partnered with many software Development project from linux accessibility, Development of Source 2 to VR.
While also being in the current offensive with alyx,Dota 2 promotion and the current rumor of valve managing Thier system due to the pandemic.
@@lettuceman9439 To me, they lost that "admirability," when I realized they couldn't count to three...
If they make games it will probably be based on VR... but it adds up a futuristic advancement for the gaming community Imo.
Same, My friend showed me the Orange Box on Xbox, introducing me to Team Fortress 2! When I saw Misha a.k.a Heavy Weapons Guy, I fell in love! His size, his weapon the lovely Sasha and his voice! The Heavy made me laugh so many times! Then I saw the "Moments with Heavy" videos made my the amazing Kitty 0706 may he rest in peace, and it made me laugh even more! Check them out if you haven´t already! It´s a damn good time! Later I was introduced to Half Life 2, the art style, the universe, the gameplay and the story really gripped me, then one day a friend showed me Garry´s Mod! I was already into it a minute after! A game where you can do basically anything, spawn anything! It sounded like a DREAM COME TRUE! Now, my love for Valve has died down and I just hate them. How could they go from loving their fans so much to just see us as a way to make money with such low effort. Valve is dead to me and to the world, let´s be honest. They don´t do shit today.
@@superheavyxd2684 MAN! I loved Kitty! and yessss, i also remember getting the orange box first because i didn’t knew TF2 was free at that time, i just wanted to play that wi the the boys
Valve is the video game equivalent to Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory
This is perfect
Gabby newells vid'game factory
small men doing a tribal dance in celebration of the dead children
Slavery?
Dead Children?
Bruh, these TF2 soundtracks are great and timeless to me.
Tf2 as a whole is timeless. The OST is amazing and fits the game ridiculously well.
I'll be honest, I love the 'wild west' nature of steam right now, even with the questionable releases like 'rape day'.
I think it's important that we have places where anyone can publish art, even bad or offensive art uncensored. I might not like all of it or even most of it but I don't want any individual or corporation gatekeeping it. Theres a few experiences out there that most people would find bad but appeal to me and other niche communities that would never get greenlit otherwise.
thanks for confirming to everyone here that you play rapeday. Get a life dude.
@@brutusb8004 Ah yes, the 'if you defend a things right to exist then you must like it' angle.
No, I think it's trash but if there's a market for it then it should be sold.
I like games some people would say are very boring but it appeals to a minority of people who are very passionate about it.
@@dominicmanester8125 Sure thing bro. Get help.
@@brutusb8004 You first, furry boy. ;)
@@brutusb8004 you got owned mane XDD
What’s funny about Artifact was that, because its reach was so small, people were able to get away with streaming hardcore pornography on Twitch despite putting “Artifact” in their stream titles
Like seriously?
@@dragoonman1478 yeah, among many other things that were entirely unrelated
@@Zitronbtw among us
that trend started with fans of livestreamer "forsen" when he got banned. Artifact was always a meme in the community, being a dead game on release and all, so they chose that to entertain themselves until forsen got unbanned.
The ironic thing is, all they’d have to do is make HL3 or L4D3 and the hype around them would make them an absolute fortune
Can't make em if you can't count to 3
The thing is. They know that
I believe they make so much passive money through steam that they don't want to risk making anything really. Especially HL3.
I think that (despite Artifact existing) Valve cares about the quality of their games, and they don't really want to chance it by making another game in one of their critically acclaimed series because they might not be able to outdo what they've already done in their prime, and it will just backfire horrendously.
@@awzp918 ironic most game studio would milk the hell out of it
It's so funny, when you brought up Artifact I legitimately forgot about that game, goes to show how it didn't make an impact.
the good valve games give off a feeling that no other game can, and it's sad that feeling will probably not be replicated again
I just need them to finish Half-Life 2: Episode 3 (without VR!). Then just say you’re not making another one so I can live in peace.
When the checkmark only has two likes o-o
It's never happening, friend.
It's been over 15 years of waiting. Most of the original devs, artists and writers who worked on HL2 and Episodes 1+2 are long gone. Not only that, there are 3 generations of consoles and young gamers who never experienced a Valve game being released.
And no I don't count HL: Alyx, because the entire thing is a tech demo gimmick majority of gamers will never play. All it proved was Valve games are dead, and modern gamers don't care about a sequel to a 20 year old franchise, that they know the developer doesn't care about finishing, or respect their fans enough to communicate with.
Woah, you’re a gamer tooo??
@@VitZ9 Who hurt you?
half life 2:episode 2:part 2
"You Either Die A Hero, Or You Live Long Enough To See Yourself Become The Villain"
AND THEM COME BACK TO THE GOOD SIDE
Valve basically became EA of PC Gaming :(
@@verdan_ater no they didn't lmao
@@verdan_ater EA manages to be worse, and don't forget about Activision
@@verdan_ater not even close
Half life 3 won’t come until valve comes up with a huge innovation for the game, half life one showed off good levels and an interesting story shown in creative ways along with groundbreaking software and changed the industry. Half life two had incredible physics and graphics, another great story and many innovations that changed the industry and Alyx is the best vr game and probably going to be the new model for very shooters. Half life 3 will have to wait for something big to change in the game industry.
That's a a really good comment. Yeah you can really trace a large part of the success in each two games for the new stuff they brought forth. A Half-Life 3 with a good story and upgraded graphics would not satisfy everyone, although many fans would like it.
Maybe Valve could be at the forefront of applying the huge developments in machine learning we have these days for stuff like AI, or maybe realistic speech synthesis, or something...
hl3 will come out when the world has access to exo suits
Maybe with the Steam deck, we can have some hope...
That's BS. The reason hl3 hasn't come out or maybe will never come out is that they've become too lazy to make the commitment to undertake a project of that scale. Steam has become a gravy train letting Valve employees slack without producing anything new and meaningful.
It's because they don't wanna do a project like Half Life or Half Life 2 again, it took them 2 years to develop the first one and 6 on the second one, they just don't wanna do a massive project like that again.
17:27 this is gold.
"No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell." C.C.fung
@Flatline I mean, I thought it was pretty self explanatory...you can be as nice as you like but you will never be big. If you want to be big then you need to build on a dirty foundation, then work on your image after the fact...
Darkness can't exist without light, but light can exist without darkness.
@@Isaiah-ft5nx isnt it the other way around?
There are 3 things that make Valve known:
1: they make awesome games
2: have questionable methods to gain more money.
That' it.
Why do so less people understand the "3" joke XD
@@firelord3361 lit
4. Can't count "Three" or what is that is.
The fact that you didnt include fact 3 makes so much sense because valve doesn't know how to count to 3.
Genius! xD
Valve: An example of when Corporatisation gets in the way of creativity and morals
taking an arrow to the knee is almost as painful as waiting for actman's why skyrim is so awesome
At least they aren’t as a bad as Bethesda
@@whiterunguard6415 holy shit touch grass.
@@ghostly2238 at least Bethesda makes games
@@whiterunguard6415 Go kick rocks. Your clearly bored.
valve is the only platform that gave me a refund for a digital product
“Valve used to make games, now they only make money.” -Sun Tzu
Zanny and Act Man were a duo that was meant to happen
Definitely
he never say that...
@@the_bane_of_all_anti_furry that imposibl..
Sun Tzu said that and I'd say he knows a little more about gaming than you do pal, BECAUSE HE INVENTED IT
This and your Blizzard video are great, love these deep dives into the developer studios. Would love to see you do one on Konami, they're another big legends to losers story in gaming.
Mai'q knows much. Mai'q does not know why there is no "Why Oblivion was so awesome"
Right!!! 🤯
You mean why oblivion was meh and awesome and bad?
taking an arrow to the knee is almost as painful as waiting for actman's why skyrim is so awesome
and why there is no why Skyrim is so awesome, or a general actman elder scrolls thing
@@raaaaaaaaaam496 that’s pretty true. Oblivion IS one of my most favorite games but yeah... even for it’s time it was somehow all three of those. It’s like a game that’s in some weird limbo when it comes to its graphics, gameplay, all that good stuff. There’s enough reasons to like it as much as there is to dislike it
I remember the day it was announced that some big company I had never heard of was going to release a brand new version of my absolute favorite mod of any game ever. That company turned out to be Value and the game was DOTA. I have spent 15,000+ hours to date on this game and I will forver appreciate Value for helping create DOTA 2.
"We're still privately owned company because we want as few people between us and the money." Is what Gabe Meant.
It is literally what he said. He's not wrong.
Its better - because they have to answer to their customers, not their shareholders - unlike EA and ACTIVISION
@@CybrosisEvolved They have to answer to their customers? This is false. They never did despite being slapped with fines galore by governing bodies that were TRYING to help consumers.
He mentioned TF2. I can die a happy man now.
I love tf2
I wish I played that game.
A game severly abandoned by Valve despite all the money it makes and how popular it is
I love TF2 too
It’s fun to swat Pilots like flies with my Laser Shot
Act man is a good son really good maybe even the best
Soldier
Rip Rick may
After Anakin fall to the Dark Side, I'm not surprised to see a "good guy" company turn into something far more sinister. I am always greatly saddened, but never surprised because if Anakin could choose a darker path, anyone can.
Thank you for your insight Obi-Wan Kenobi
If anyone was ever pre-destined to walk down a dark path, it was Anakin. Like the jedi order who refused to see Anakins slow fall, we consumers allowed publishers to continue with their shady practices for too long
Hello there.
At least you two had the whole Clone Wars series to bond through
@@thelegolistme3250 how do consumers allow companies to fuck with them? Preorders and immediately buying games lmao. Look at all the idiots that pre-ordered Cyberpunk. I wanted that game as well but I waited and saw the bs. Never and I say, never preorder games no matter what.
According to my mathematical theory, currently as of 2022 “valve time” is approximately 32 times of the original factor
This is represented by the original 6 month time for HL 2 p3 to 16 years
Which is 6 months x 32 which gives us 16 years
“Valve time” is an ever changing value, next year I’ll try and update valve time to its accurate value
Yours faithfully
Honor_
So, based on your hypothesis, I propose that the first derivative of valve time is not a constant, but rather is increasing as time progresses. Something like a hyperbolic tangent. Tanh(x).
@@garisonhayne668 I would propose that Valve and time are relative to another but should be viewed as one (Valvetime) and when a game is epic enough it can actually warp and bend "Valvetime" thus slowing it down. Then as a game is released the marketplace economy explodes sending skins and other useless junk across the market place creating a black hole that even the cents between the couchpillows cant escape the microtransactions devouring your savings. V=HF³
I like your funny words, magic man.
amazing
They are just lazy.
"we used to make games, now we make money"
Potent.
facts, thing is you can do both.
Exactly!
So they didn't make money before?
*Unveils a paper money printing press*
Lombardi: Sh*t Gabe not on camera! That's for the stockholders meeting in 30 minutes!
Valve: only puts out new content once every 7 years
Internet Historian: Hold my beer.
Ahoy,Jontron,Nakeyjakey, and CoryXkenshin: allow us to introduce ourselves 😏😉😅🙃
@@Abel-Alvarez NakeyJakey is god in the youtube community.
Do yourself a favor and check Lemmino if you haven't heard of him, next level quality and very interesting videos.
SamO'nella
“If there’s one thing gamers love more than playing videogames, it’s talking trash about videogames”
Fallout fans in a nutshell
No shit lmao. Underrated comment.
No... Every gamer. Not just fallout fans
@Skuash where? I don't see anyone here praising the Bethesda games
Fallout 76 is awful, I don’t even play it anymore
@Skuash ?
Thank you for your insight Mr. Freeman. I know this subject is very near and dear to your heart.
Hell yeah Acting Male, I’ve noticed the quality of your editing style has been increasing as of late but it seems you’re also uploading more often too, I take it that’s a good sign that you’re able to pretty much do RUclips full-time eh?
Also, EmpLemon just uploaded as well so having an Act Man essay and an EmpLemon essay drop within 5 minutes of each other is just awesome.
Yessir! I also have a couple editors that help me out and then I fine tune things. Kind of how I've been working on my videos as of late!
@@TheActMan Oooh that’s a good investment, glad it’s paying off!
@@TheActMan planning on making a video about the original half lifes ?
i appreciate Valve so much for bringing us left4dead. i will forever hold that game dear to my heart. i will never forget achievment hunting trying to beat blood harvest on expert.
Facts.
I loved playing both L4D soon after launch on expert with randoms. Very much a zombie survival feel, you managed to not die so far, these are the guys you get, fight or get eaten. 95% good experience too. I don't remember any really toxic situations, and even if sb betrayed you from the rescue vehicle 2 hours in after nail-biting session, it was part of the game and all in good fun. Then I'd play with some of those guy on versus. Good times.
Turtle Rock gave you Left 4 Dead, not Valve.
@@ezioaugustus2621 Not really. They both did it jointly. Turtle Rock alone even with modern tech and experience from L4D1/2 made a far inferior B4B. Their effort alone is not terrible but quite mediocre. It's got around 4k ccu now and L4D2 is at 20k ccu so many years later. Without good ideas from TR it wouldn't be made, but without tech, attention to detail and proficiency from Valve it would never reach greatness.
@@ezioaugustus2621 Valve controlled Turtle Rock so that they wouldnt add anything they didnt like and poof it ended up being the much beloved L4D, now look at Back 4 Blood, TRS included the things they wanted to put into L4D before but werent allowed such as card systems which ended up being shat on by the players continuously plus L4D2 which is the far superior game to its prequel was developed solely by Valve. Turtle Rock Studios is literally riding the success of their L4D reputation, they havent made a single successful game since
"How did a 6-month period turn into 13 years" sounds a lot like "how did a 2-weeks to stop the spread turn into 1 and 1/2 years"
Careful with that wrong-think there.
@@azealous5108 No, no. Just hand him a big red button, I wanna see where this goes.
@@leandersearle5094 one errant twitch...
@@nobleradical2158 And we all get more fun than we are legally entitled too. Everybody wins!
@David Cole Based.
In my eyes, Valve f**ked Microsoft finally with the Proton. I can now play any game on my Linux-based OS with no problems!
As an artist I get how it goes when making things with no real constraints. sometimes having no deadlines or expectations can result in less artistic creation
Valve devs have talked a lot about how projects pop up and then fizzle out and die. Just ask any art friends you have, if they've got a hard drive of WIPs that maybe "one day I'll get around to" you know that feeling
There's plenty of passion, but there's too many ideas and not enough clear leadership to really drive home, "this is what we're gonna do"
so lack of games being released means valve needs to tap harder on the steam/Dota pay out to float along, which pushes culture to be more profit focused and encourages some of the shady cutthroat culture between Devs and employees
I'm pretty sure Gabe is just hiding in his underground bunker playing Dota until the last drop of life leaves his body.
as one should
@@ChvdMaximvs Oh, be ready mate, people will start defending the great game
Not far off, he's been chilling in New Zealand since the pandemic started.
gabe is the god of steam, as long as steam is alive, he cannot die
I guess Valve is the epitome of the phrase, "Die a hero or live long enough to be the villian."
blizzard, ubisoft, bethesda, activision, infinity ward, treyarch, rockstar...
hell, every single gaming company has this phraze!
except mojang, majang is a good boy
@@jockeyfield1954 Unsure how much I would blame some of these. Treyarch and Infinity Ward are developer groups under Activision, so they do have to meet whatever standard set for them and to do as they're told. Activision is a major publisher, not so much a group of developers as much as I know. Though if you know any games Activision made as a developer and not as a publisher, I'd legit like to know pft.
@@jockeyfield1954 ID software: yo mojang Im going with you
@@jockeyfield1954 mojang good boy?!?!! bruh...
@@jockeyfield1954 mojang has added microtransactions to bedrock recently so they might be turning to a darker side
i do enjoy they are the only ones to have a community area where you can address issues with a game and offer constructive feedback
Vavle: “We used to make games. Now we make money”
Yes pretty much! How sad they changed.... maaan
Given that Valve is hard at work in the linux community working to find a way to preserve all games with Proton/playonlinux/WINE after windows and microsoft implode like the hindenburg. Making games seems secondary
"OH, BABY A TRIPLE!" - Something Valve has never said
taking an arrow to the knee is almost as painful as waiting for actman's why skyrim is so awesome
That one was violation
Lmfao
Hey now. The way they put it is less than 4, but more than 2
Except the orange box. 3 Games.
Damn can't believe Gordon Freeman has turned on Valve...
Separate from all of this, I am curious on Act Man's thoughts on the Steam Deck and what Valve has done for the (non-Windows/multi-platform) gaming community over the past few years
Everyone: OMG VALVE is making a new game called artifact I can’t wait for this.
Valve: looks like there’s been a change of plan
The news of a new game release has been......greatly exaggerated.....
taking an arrow to the knee is almost as painful as waiting for actman's why skyrim is so awesome
@@linkkraft3358 That clip is out of context. Prior to the reveal, Day9 said the following:
ruclips.net/video/7y9EG7_B9bY/видео.html#t=8h33m
"This is not an extra game mode. This is not even a game like CSGO, that's based on Counter-Strike, or Dota 2, that's based on Dota 1, this is a game that's an entirely new beast unto its own."
To be fair, these remarks, while misleading, aren't really wrong. Despite its shared setting, Artifact's core gameplay is nothing at all like Dota 2's, and deserves to be seen as its own IP. But still, what Day9 said set the expectation of a completely new game with no ties to any previous Valve titles. The groaning isn't because of the reveal itself, but the false expectations set by Day9's remarks.
@@Enceladeans Don't care, Artifact is garbage
Balls&Walls
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I feel like Sony and Valve are slowly becoming best friends.
Yup. Valve is starting to slowly censor games on their platform
@@pandaboogus in what way I see a lotta hentai games on it xD
Act Man should do a video on Rockstar next. They're literally in the same situation as Valve.
Well rockstar actually announced they have a game coming out
@@ryanbishop3967
G T A E N C H A N C E D
GTA V on PS6/XboxTwo
Coming here from your video about Blizzard is trippy. Valve is like the anti Blizzard when it comes to consumer relations (or at least they WERE!), but they still obviously have other problems...
I remember how pumped I was when the orange box came out. So many good games for such a good price.
I bought the Orange Box _just_ for Portal. Portal was probably the first game I remember being truly _psyched_ for leading up to it's release. Like, yeah, I would see other games in development in magazines, online, etc... But I would kinda just think, "That looks fun, I want that, I'll have to remember that one!" Or else I would get caught up in someone else's hype in the days leading up to a launch, even though I didn't know shit about the game (I was just excited that I was going to have a new game to play that someone else wanted to play rather than me bugging them to play something). More often than not my hype was for hardware, because I would usually get a game, look at the box, get pumped and then pop it into my computer that would then just smoke a little and fart comically at me.
Portal was different. It was probably the first game I saw the trailer for on RUclips (before it came out), and I vividly remember that trailer. I was hooked from day one. I made sure my PC was up to the task leading up to it so I wouldn't get caught with my pants down, I drooled over every scrap of information I could find, and when I heard about how Portal was based on a college final project, I went out to find and download Narbacular Drop, and then I played the absolute shit out of it over and over and over waiting for Portal. I never became this hyped for any other game again, though Doom Eternal came close.
Lmfao I remember getting the Orange Box and being a little annoyed. "What? I have to buy all these _other_ games to get Portal? Why can't I just pay, like, 15 bucks _just_ for Portal!? What the Hell is a Team Fortress? It basically just looks like RTCW multiplayer/ Wolf: ET? And _Half Life?_ Half life 2, and Half life 2: Episode 1? The fuck does that mean? Which should I play first? I'm confused."
Then I played Portal, HL2, and then never finished episode 1 until over a decade later lmao. Got my money out of TF2, tho, which is good because the new freemium version sucks lol.