Don't Hate Valve For Delaying Episode Three, The Answer Why is Right Here.

pippy · 1 year

I'd rather have a good game that's been reworked 5 times than a pile of shit.

Patience is a virtue.

Remo_253 · 1 year

There are company's like this. I lost my wife to cancer 2 years ago. She worked as long as she could (a large multinational) while taking chemo during the last recurrence but finally it became impossible. We went in to meet with her boss to discuss her options (long term disability, resigning, etc) and I still tear up remembering that meeting. He said "Go home, do what you need to do, you're now on the payroll as a consultant, same pay and benefits." For the next several months people would call or stop by to "consult", mostly on how she was doing. And that was the case up to the day she passed.

Emblematic · 1 year

I want a source, dammit.

o0DrWurm0o · 1 year

Here's why Episode 3 is delayed: Half Life 2 is fucking genius and it takes time to make a worthy successor after having already made 2.

ohnomelon · 1 year

I learned a little bit about Valve at GDC 2010, they're development methods are highly admirable. It is clear that they sacrifice a fair amount of efficiency, but quality is the main consequence. There are very few people who would argue that Valve isn't the best place to work in the game industry. I've never really heard of any other company that nurtures creativity and talent quite so much.

mebraingot · 1 year

If it's true: Expected.

If it isn't true: Situation like this arrives at Gabe? He would do exactly that.

Firelance · 1 year

Confirmed. This is real, folks. http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/gwgwl/valveerik_confirmed_for_being_totally_awesome_the/

Herries · 1 year

Where's this story from?

Don't say the iPad-only Portal 2 app. I'll scream. Violently.

nupogodi · 1 year

Don't have an iPad?

Bograff · 1 year

As an Ulcerative Colitis sufferer who has been through exactly what Erik went through in that story, I hope it isn't true. Because it us an awful thing to go through.

jerry111 · 1 year

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Saturdays · 1 year

Gabe's fuck yea face.

Awesome.

TempMan1235 · 1 year

Welcome to Hotel Valve. Such a talented place. You can tender your resignation, but you can never quit.

vinsfeld08 · 1 year

Breaking news: Episode 3 delayed due to massive case of the shits.

rivalthecreator · 1 year

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Myth3842 · 1 year

Either that or this song really touched him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdeY1v6jC7Q

AggieDem · 1 year

~~The story is BS~~ (See BJ_Blazkowicz's reply), but Valve really does give a damn about their employees.

http://www.gamerzines.com/pc/news/valve-worried-stress-families.html

[deleted] · 1 year

in a great twist of irony, I think this has more to do with it: http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/1/15902/1202924-2444960854_da6817c638.jpg

furril · 1 year

After Portal 2 I am 100% convinced that Valve can odo whatever the hell it wants.
Delay Episode 3? Take all the time you need.
no Meet the Videos? I'm sure there are good reasons.
DOTA 2? Sure, I'll give it a try.

This company has been so consistently awesome I will accept whatever they think is a good pace and look forwards to new content, even if it takes years.

hayf · 1 year

When I was diagnosed I had lost so much blood my skin color was green and my body stopped producing more; became anemic and lost 30 pounds in a matter of weeks. I never got work off. Four day hospital leave when my legs lost feeling and my fever skyrocketed; upper endoscopy and lower endoscopy, shitting blood for months and not knowing why. Although now I only take 9 pills a day for it when I was taking 16 a day for it before. One thing I could have, and still can do with this disease; write. I didn't need a blood transfusion, but I suffer from this disease; I was working while in the hospital.

latinjones · 1 year

This totally validates my man crush on Gabe.

SuperfluousMoniker · 1 year

Maybe I'm missing something here, but I don't see what this has to do with Episode Three. At all.

[deleted] · 1 year

I would love to work for Valve. The gaming industry is becoming so flawed these days. It is becoming all about the money and to he'll with the people who make the games. Companies like Valve are the rare exceptions. My lady (Build Engineer) and I (Producer) would just be in heaven to work there. She has a better shot, as I hear that they do not utilize producers. But that may be just rumors. But being an agile development specialist, working for Valve would be working for a company I would retire with...which is rare now with the venture capitalist ruining the industry and destroying lives (see Gazillion).

winterorange · 1 year

Gabe for pres 2012

neon · 1 year

If the part about the writer of portal having ulcerative colitis is true, my love of these games just went up even more. I have UC and its just nice to here that someone didn't let the disease ruin their life and went on to make something as awesome as portal

[deleted] · 1 year

Regardless of truthfulness or not (I detest the way the Reddit users make me double/triple take EVERYTHING these days; I know, fakes, I know) this 'short story' was enough to get the better of me at a rather sentimental moment of my life. At the very least, someone, somewhere deserves a karma for making me tear up. Bastards.

catcradle5 · 1 year

Wait, do people actually hate Valve for delaying their games and taking a while to make them? I could see being a bit frustrated and anxious, but you know obviously the longer they spend making them, the better they are, and the games they spend ages making are pretty much always huge hits.

Whether this (or any other story) is BS or not, hating a company for something so silly as that is incredibly stupid. They make quality products, and that's the main thing you should care about. You're not somehow losing time or money because Episode 3 was delayed a year.

makesureimjewish · 1 year

I wouldn't hate valve regardless. They make great games and have been releasing them pretty steadily. Sure the game I'm most excited for is still far off from the looks of it, but you won't find me complaning. Just patiently waiting and happy that a company obviously knows what it's doing

[deleted] · 1 year

Fucking shit. What a bunch of cynical pricks. If you read a good story and your first instinct is "this can't possibly be true", you have sincerely failed somewhere in life. Personally I'm more inclined to believe a story until proven wrong.

InvaderDJ · 1 year

At this point I don't care. I don't care if we have to wheel someone's half dead ass in and prop him up in front of a keyboard, I just want Episode 3. I don't know how it can take so long, for an episodic game.

scificriminal · 1 year

Game delays and everything aside I am just sitting here thinking, wow how cool would it be to work for a company that actually gives a shit about you. I have a feeling that's a rare thing. I know I would not get the same treatment from my company. They would probably ask me if I could stay long enough to train my replacement while trying to think of some other ways they could screw me in the mean time.

[deleted] · 1 year

Ulcerative colitis is bad shit. Oddly, I lost a buddy who owned a game company to it. The medication he was on caused (increased the risk of) a serious type of blood cancer and 3 month later he was gone.

RIP Phil

SlimMaculate · 1 year

I'm probably alone on this opinion but Valve should just cancel Episode 3..

The whole point of episodic DLC is to release them within a timely matter of each other, not just for the first two and wait years after for the 3rd one. IMO, at this point Valve is better off taking what they had planned for Episode 3 and stretching it out into a full fledged game (Half-Life 3).

[deleted] · 1 year

In a culture where people are "lucky to have a job" in this economy, people need to take a lesson or two from Gabe. And stop making fun of him. Assholes. :P

inhumanehuman · 1 year

Valve: Leading the way in gentlemanly gaming.

[deleted] · 1 year

This story is total bullshit. They left out the whole part where C-3P0 is is translating for Gabe... and what about Han in the Carbonite?

Hatdrop · 1 year

having an IBD myself, i understand that UC can be debilitating, i have a friend that has crohn's disease as well and has had to undergo surgery multiple times.

so after the incident described occurred, episode 1, 2, portal, and portal 2 have been released. i can't say for sure, but i'm guessing the underlined sections are not the "answer why" episode 3 is not out

csulok · 1 year

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR0WN55p_zI

LibrarySurvivor · 1 year

Episode Three will never be made. Valve simply don't do 3's. Half-Life 2, Team Fortress 2, Portal 2, Left 4 Dead 2, Episode Two. It stands to reason. Am I the only sane one here?

night_wing · 1 year

fake or not, Gabe is awesome.

nepidae · 1 year

I'm just waiting for Half Life 2: Episode 2: Part 1 (in the timeline it starts right after Half Life 2: Episode 2.)

I_want_a_sandwich · 1 year

So you're saying it's Gabe's fault?

locriology · 1 year

I've got to be honest, I wouldn't be terribly upset if Episode 3 never came out. I enjoyed episodes 1 and 2, but I wasn't terribly compelled by the story, nor was it any kind of significant graphics or gameplay upgrade from Half-Life 2.

What I would really like to see is a brand new engine and story arc, and a true Half Life 3. The same kind of upgrade we got from Half Life to Half Life 2. The episodes don't really do that for me.

Am I the only one?

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