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No? The guy Trojan Horse'd Steam on all of us with Half-Life 2. I actually still have the recording of calling him at home the day Half-Life 2 came out upset that I couldn't play the game because the Steam servers weren't online yet. That was my first introduction to DRM and it tightened my jaws as a gamer.
It’s truly disappointing that Gabe is the exception and not the rule for how leaders in the industry steer their companies but I am still extremely grateful that a man like him is in charge of the most culturally important company in the industry nonetheless
I just hope the man or woman that follows him when he retires runs the company the same if not better than him and doesn’t just run the company into the ground due to greed
I feel like Gabe is one of the few major people inside the gaming world, who still after all these years and millions / billions of dollars still has a core, childlike passion for gaming.
No? The guy Trojan Horse'd Steam on all of us with Half-Life 2. I actually still have the recording of calling him at home the day Half-Life 2 came out upset that I couldn't play the game because the Steam servers weren't online yet. That was my first introduction to DRM and it tightened my jaws as a gamer.
@@JerosGamer89 Those games are old and both of them weren't even originally made by Valve. I like old Valve games like HL2 but my point is they don't even make original games anymore. Their last attempt was Artifact which failed, did you think that one was pretty great? Because most people didn't.
he is the reason we have objectively some of the best games of all time, one of the best vr headsets of all time, an entire extremely convenient pc game store and catalogue, AND an incredibly graphically impressive handheld console with a massive catalogue of games.
He's a rare beast. IT's from that era are exceptionally intelligent. He has good emotions, ethics, and didn't let anything change him. What surprises me is how he can be so gifted, achieved, and still remain so human.
There is something inherently funny yet awestruck that GabeN took _just enough_ cut to keep his control over the company. That _0.1%_ is small yet huge at the same time.
Gaben didn't also just make a platform and couple of games, in reality he kind of made 50% of the games out. His platform and his influence alone on the gaming industry changed it forever. He single handedly revolutionized our entertainment through video games. Not only that but he also showed the world that gaming had a bigger market than they'd ever thought which also could have been the motivation behind a lot of start up developing of video games (ex. Bethesda, Starbreeze, Respawn Entertainment) that have made a HUGE footprint in the industry and made games we call our childhood. Just a complete W of a human being.
I use steam deck as my desktop PC, with steam dock, keyboard, mouse and display. This is one the best purchases I've made in my life. I code on it, browse the web, play games like DotA or crusader kings 3. I have also discovered platformers like dead cells thanks to the Deck. GabeN, thank you
The first time i used steam was about 16 years ago. My friend was into counter strike and installed it on my PC. Many people had ideas similar to steam, but steam always did it best. My favorite thing has always been the community. Seeing what games my friends are playing, viewing the community page for my favorite games to talk to and share things with people who enjoy the same things as me... its so special. I just ordered my first steam deck. I cant wait. I will support Gaben as much as I can. He understands a company's greatest asset is its customers/users. He even tells people to email him. Im glad hes successful. I worry about what will happen to Valve once he's gone. He looks a lot better and has lost a lot of weight so i hope he has another 40 years in him. I always worry about overweight people when they start getting old.
Something HUGE that was not mentioned, ANY pc game you ever bought can be activated on steam as long as it came with a CD-KEY. This is very useful for digitizing games that were released under older windows versions and won't run on newer versions. On PC backwards compatibility is mostly a software problem, not a hardware problem like with consoles (although it's getting better now that consoles are just using the same x86 architecture as PC has been using since 1978)
HL-Alyx do have a significant cultural icon. It came out before metaverse was even a thing, and sent all the metaverse trash back to where they belong to -- the digital junkyard. Even to this day it still holds the golden standard of VR gaming. Valve literally turned an idea everyone thought would have flopped (making it VR-exclusive) into a total win. What a fking legend!
For everyone asking why this channel is underrated....this is a second channel to his main channel ...where he talks about programming and languages in general ..
The part where you got it wrong or missed is how they run the games in linux. They made a technology called Proton, it's basically a translator, which translates windows api calls such as the ones that are used in directx opengl and so on, and translates to a call that linux understands. It's basically a layer that translates the game in order to run on linux. Fun fact recently apple has been working on a similar technology based in proton called Metal, which has the same idea, translating opengl,directx api calls to the mac environment.
Metal isnt a translation layer, it's Apple's proprietary API. They dont want to support Vulkan, and D3D is Microsoft's, so they made their own competing API, and there's no translation layer for it that can work without also running x86 emulation (which has pretty spotty game compatibility) In fact, Apple's plan with Metal is the opposite of improving compatibility. They want to make devs make Mac game versions in Metal so it can be sold in the App Store and they can get the 30% cut from it, rather than Valve (who they've refused to work with on improving library compatibility after the M1 transition), and so that users' game libraries will be tied to the Apple ecosystem rather than be cross-platform like Steam
I knew Gabe had always been one of the main leaders/decision-makers at Valve, but I had no idea he had a whole-ass 50.1% majority stake in the company. No wonder he’s been able to make Steam and Valve’s other projects as great as they are. He actually puts his money where his mouth is and uses it to stay true to his passion of improving/contributing to the PC gaming community.
Gabe is who we all are inside and strive to do/be and what the pc community embodies most the greed of wanting to move tech in a positive direction not for money or monetary stuff but for advancement of tech and innovation for everyone to enjoy for generations to come he is and always will be the voice, the moral compass that reaches through the void shedding light on the stuff that really matters that is just having fun doing what we love to do and be that is being the meme the legend, one and only true gamer.
Hopefully his share would go to either his son that also works with gaming, or a trusted partner that can pick up his torch. But lets not talk about his death when he probably still has a lot of years left on his clock, i think we have atleast another good 20 years with this man as the boss.
I'm owning a Steam Deck OLED since march and I find it incredible,you don't even need to go outside much to make use of it. It's so chill to just sit on the couch 1hour before you go to bed and chill with your favourite AAA Game,Indie game or some emulated Game. Still there is more when you wan't to use it as a PC in the desktop mode, you can do so many things that you don't even think of when you buy it.
When I saw this video popping up in my recommended section I thought this channel would have at least over a 100K subs because of how high quality of a video that is. Also great explanations and story on Valve, the editing of this video really catched my eye and I enjoyed it a lot. Thanks, Tech Stories!
Half-Life was the first FPS I ever played, and it still is my all-time favorite. Gabe seems like a geniunely good dude, and smart too. May he have a great life!
SteamOS proprietary? Not really, it's just a distribution of Arch Linux with a bunch of tweaks. Most, if not all of those tweaks are either available from others under the GPL or similar licences, or directly from Valve themselfs. They invest a lot of time and money in to those tweaks and tools, which are pretty much all open source.
If Gabe Newell ran for president I wold vote for him. Partially because i know he has Everyones best interests in mind but mainly because its Gabe Newell
Wow what a great edit, I thought you were going to talk about the future planned as in the Brain computer chips, Nonetheless great video I enjoyed it alot, and man we are really blessed to have GabeN!
I own a Limited Edition deck, and have had my account for 11 years. Weirdly enough my library only consists of a bit over 150 games, about 70 are "deck verified". If I had to guess about 120 of which are still easily playable with a bit of fine tuning. Not to mention emulation. You could say I'm a bit of a fan.
Awesome Video as always!! Just a side note, I think its pronounced "id Software" as in "bid" or "kid" (without the starting consonant sound ofcourse), cause its supposed to be the id from "ego and id of the mind".
8:40 "the complexity of adding anti-cheat systems on linux" made me smile, considering that these anti cheat engines are the most invasive pieces of software that have ever been commercialized. just imagine, back when windows fixed a critical bug that allowed access to ring level 0 of the kernel (full system access) most of these anti cheat engines broke. (meanwhile there exist other workarounds to gain this access, they haven't gotten any less scary.) it's sad these drastic measures are necessary, but i don't even want to play any games with this kind of malware attached to them anymore :P either way, nice video, great roundup on such an important figure of this industry.
The only reason I ever got into Steam was because of Portal 2. I got the game for PS3 and it came with a code to also get the game on Steam. I've been using Steam ever since.
These videos are excellent. Usually by the time I see good videos like this, like Will Tennyson when he had less than 10,000 subs, they blow up and have millions of subs within a few years. Good luck!
The Valve Index was not the "first" steam hardware. The Steam Machine and Steam Controller was the hardware that was released in 2015. You have the correct date but the wrong hardware. The virtual related hardware was not released until 2019.
Valve has always let me with the feeling they werent pushing the steam strong enough pun intented. They left their half life serie until Alyx Vr. They could have made so much more with the talent they have.
You forgot to mention the Steam Machine, which was their first hardware, not VR. It was a brilliant headless mini PC for the couch gamer, and lead to many arguably better spin offs such as the Alienware Alpha, which i owned one of back in the day. They should really make more iterations of those cool little PCs rather than waste time on the dinky massive smartphone/controller that doesn't even fit in a pocket called the Deck. The Deck has no reason to exist as you can achieve better experience with any smartphone, a controller like the Razer Kishi and GeForce NOW than the Deck can. But the Steam Machine and Alienware Alpha was great for couch gaming and semi-mobile gaming like Lan-parties etc.
Gabe is cool and also Valve, but let's not kid ourselves, they are still a huge company with max profit in mind. It's that because of valve's unique position and modus operandi, they profit by making good products, instead of milking it's fans. I hope they never get investors, when this happens, it's over. I say all that because they've been part of lot's of anti consumer controversies, but still they are one of the best gaming companies out there.
well i have steam deck, its little bit heavy to hold, but its perfect for gaming because you dont need to buy game to play like XBOX, PS5 and Nintendo switch, if you buy games from steam, you wont need to buy games at steam deck because you buy it from steam.
Idk why but i found the progress bar circle things in the bottom left really distracting. It's kinda hard to focus when i see something moving in the corner of my eye if that makes sense.
Interesting video, sort of surprised to see you missed the whole mod support/hiring devs and game ideas that way or that HL2 was used to push Steam into adoption. Also no mention of the Index or Gabe's strong interest on Valve pushing VR and BCI. This could easily be double or triple the length and I get that it's alot more work but as others have said there's alot missing here.
Also should have mentioned the original idea behind the Steam Deck, the steam machine which ended up being an utter failure. That's the origin of Steam OS too.
aside from gifting game, you forgot to add steam community market, where people around can trade/sell in-game items one of the best features steam has that other game portal still don't have.
