The Rise & Fall of Valve

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Valve used to be the 'Good Guy' of game developers. From their outstanding hits in Half-Life, Team Fortress 2, Portal, Left 4 Dead and so on, they have dominated the PC market and revolutionized gaming. But somewhere along the way they had a fall from grace. They stopped selling games and started selling hats. Gambling, lawsuits, illegal activities, after 2011 Valve was getting involved in all kinds of shady stuff.
And it's time I filled you in on the Rise and Fall of Valve.
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___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
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@TheActMan 3 года назад

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.

@TheActMan 3 года назад

____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

@faketoddhoward7280 3 года назад

Lying about fallout 76 almost makes you wish that the actman would do a "why is the last of us 1 a masterpiece?!"

@MatthewShep 3 года назад

@@TheActMan "Why is kotor 2 a masterpiece? " video isn't released yet... Influence lost: Kreia

@philippelavoie799 3 года назад

@@TheActMan You should edited your comment :)

@mariusuncu7501 3 года назад

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

@hannibalcase1100 3 года назад

"It could be a Chinese sweatshop or Disneyland for all I know" You just said the same thing twice.

@TheActMan 3 года назад

Hahahaha

@jacobmeza91 3 года назад

Hehe what’s the difference -Patrick

@sahymakhtar7445 3 года назад

@@TheActMan valve is not a completely evil company, at least compared to epic games lmao

@lzy3 3 года назад

@@sahymakhtar7445 and epic is basically Jesus compared to EA

@hannibalcase1100 3 года назад

@@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.

@RoanokeGaming 3 года назад

Sending head crabs now

@guardsmanlars6797 3 года назад

ROANOKE! buddy how you holding up?

@1sano_ 3 года назад

just watched this mfs days gone virus video

@iamilibitirenbetter3266 3 года назад

Hey Roanoke!

@thefoxxx3082 3 года назад

Hey it's the starting with the feet guy

@connorcaddy5661 3 года назад

You, i know you.

@splycerrr Год назад

I will forever love valve for TF2, that's what started PC Gaming for me.

@SimuLord Год назад

As long as Steam works and gives me an all-in-one storefront and archive for my PC games, all the stuff involving the games they actually make, I couldn't care less about. Although when I say "works", I use that term kinda loosely. I've gone onto the Steam store actively looking to buy a game and come up empty because their storefront is such a massive clusterfuck. And their algorithms, which have on occasionally found for me absolute hidden gems, still haven't learned in 13 years that 'recommended for you because it's popular' has never, not once, resulted in a sale. It's just clogged up my shopping experience like an annoying salesman in a store.

@Zipperskull_ Год назад

Same for me but I gotta side eye valve for being a missing grandfather of gaming unless they're dead.

@Arthurroundtable 10 месяцев назад

Same

@BilboniousBagODonuts 10 месяцев назад

First thing I ever registered on Steam, I couldn't even tell you how many I have now

@emperorpalpatine6239 10 месяцев назад

You should love the people who created Team Fortress 2, not the greedy company that is destroying it

@KarlRock 2 года назад

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.

@carlacastrodasilvasantana6960 2 года назад

When the checkmark only has two likes o-o

@VitZ9 Год назад

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.

@Itsgyro Год назад

Woah, you’re a gamer tooo??

@Ubertheheavy324 10 месяцев назад

@@VitZ9 Who hurt you?

@trustypotato9998 9 месяцев назад

half life 2:episode 2:part 2

@MrLockeSocke 3 года назад

when gordon freeman has to make a video about being disappointed in valve...

@CzarekKwasny 3 года назад

Let the silent man speak...

@AtemiRaven 2 года назад

He certainly is speaking a lot more than usually. He must be pretty pissed off.

@KunaevNS 2 года назад

Lmao

@williamyoung9401 2 года назад

Gabe's Will: "Bury me with the Half Life code...so Half Life 2, Episode 3 can never be made..." lol.

@KingRumar 2 года назад

@@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

@ThatRotundGamer 3 года назад

I bet that if Gabe made a post on social media saying 3, the world would go crazy

@abramsullivan7764 3 года назад

Oh man that would've blown everyone mind.

@pnutz_2 3 года назад

RICOCHET -TWOOOO- THREEEEEEEEEE

@charly6066 3 года назад

3 new hats for team fortress 2

@karlisulmanis3810 3 года назад

@@charly6066 that would be nice.

@jimster1111 3 года назад

turns out to be left 4 dead 3 instead

@SuperDanielHUN 2 года назад

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.

@handson4580 Год назад

i think its great to small groups but when you got a monopoly corporation like valve it extremely hinders progress

@chbrules Год назад

It's kinda like communism - sounds good until you realize humans are involved.

@GolAcheron-fc4ug 8 месяцев назад

order is necessary for anything to continue existing.

@julianmangan9752 6 месяцев назад

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

@balabanasireti Месяц назад

@@julianmangan9752It makes sense

@hyperleap4876 Год назад

Valve really did create modern gaming...

@Nitrous_Busa Год назад

Lmao.

@MortCodesWeb Год назад

true

@SergyMilitaryRankings Год назад

Not even close

@SergyMilitaryRankings Год назад

@@MortCodesWeb tell me you're a casual gamer without telling me

@monkeebunz8580 Год назад

@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.

@thebigsandvich6924 2 года назад

The tf2 community has been screaming this for almost 4 years - thx for joining in

@tacticaltwinkies3847 2 года назад

we will never give into those bots

@oldmanjinkinsskyrim737 2 года назад

@@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.

@tacticaltwinkies3847 2 года назад

@@oldmanjinkinsskyrim737 and wait 20000000 years to find one with players in it, yeah no thanks.

@venturo3066 2 года назад

Since 2017 they don't do anything

@nodraw_ 2 года назад

@@venturo3066 You forgot about the SNAKE UPDATE!

@H3Vtux 3 года назад

"Blizzard, Valve, and Bioware could never do anything to lose my respect" -Me, in 2010. To be young and naive...

@jacobjandt7216 3 года назад

The good days, first time playing half life 2 it just seemed so revolutionary.

@GuiiBrazil 3 года назад

CDPR is for the new generation, what Valve was for people above their 30's. Amazing how the great falls in similiar ways.

@Marinealver 3 года назад

Hey kids, have you heard about this company in Poland named CD Project Red?

@superspies32 3 года назад

The same with Grinding Gear Games

@grilledmoistpeepee6682 3 года назад

That's why you don't put your trust in companies, Follow the storytellers and actual devs.

@SirDucky99 Год назад

Valve will always have a place in my heart because of all the revolutionary things they've done. And like a wise man just said "If Wolfenstein 3D and Doom was the shooter genre understanding how to use fire, than Half-Life was the genre learning how to harnessing electricity."

@emperorpalpatine6239 10 месяцев назад

Love the game devs, not the company

@reykoranteng9089 Год назад

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.

@Sasha-zw9ss Год назад

I recently joined the game, no regrets.

@EthanBalkfield 8 месяцев назад

What are you talking about? TF2 is very much alive and kicking

@fenneck9676 3 месяца назад

@@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..

@EthanBalkfield 3 месяца назад

@@fenneck9676 huh? What are you even what?

@chillnagasden6190 4 дня назад

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.

@samuiluzunov5428 3 года назад

The sentence is, in a nutshell : "Either you die a hero or you live long enough to become a villian".

@whiterunguard6415 3 года назад

taking an arrow to the knee is almost as painful as waiting for actman's why skyrim is so awesome

@FizCap 3 года назад

@@whiterunguard6415 Skyrim has to be awesome for him to make a video on it... Can't compare Skyrim to something like Fallout New Vegas

@superspies32 3 года назад

With Grinding Gear Games it will be: "Either you die a blind pioneer or live long enough to become a shitty version of EA"

@andrewscocozza4340 3 года назад

@@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

@whiterunguard6415 3 года назад

@@andrewscocozza4340 thanks dude, spread the good word of skyrim.

@chaseroberts8863 3 года назад

Valve whenever they see any trace of tf2 being alive:”I don’t know what this is and I don’t like it”

@catuluj4385 3 года назад

Pain.

@48waffles36 3 года назад

💯

@Jazz-dh2ds 3 года назад

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.

@blobofmeatwhoexist8460 3 года назад

well valve prepare an update for tf2

@daimonbro5015 3 года назад

hell yeah and is gonna stay alive by the community

@kingatheist7231 Год назад

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!

@miruharabae Год назад

Constantly play each campaign all over again & enjoy it so much. Then replay them again.

@blacklight683 Год назад

You either die a hero(valve) or live long enough to see yourself become a villain(Bethesda) Valve died in 2011

@deuswulf6193 Год назад

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.

@sliver64209 Год назад

(Watching this on my steam deck)- “i see what your saying bro…”

@Abel-Alvarez Год назад

As did Rockstar games, they died in 2013/14.

@originalname8770 Год назад

@@Abel-Alvarez why 2014? i thought it was shortly after RDR2’s release

@Mojojojo9001 Год назад

that 2nd one also describes EA perfectly well too

@angelsilva7207 3 года назад

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

@Damien-pd2xp 3 года назад

Lol

@Hyperio606 3 года назад

yes.

@luccavg4559 3 года назад

Im here before tousend likes

@steveweast475 3 года назад

Here's your silver medal for being the second comment 🎉

@TheActMan 3 года назад

It's a curse I have to fullfill, actually

@andremonteiro9372 3 года назад

Clicked faster than Gabe running away from HL3 questions

@TheActMan 3 года назад

Faster than Valve trying to sell you hats

@train_go_boom2065 3 года назад

Clever

@andremonteiro9372 3 года назад

@@TheActMan LOL i love your channel my dude, keep it up!

@mr.lordstarscream1570 3 года назад

@@TheActMan *wandering the safe shallow in your seamoth* *Makes you wish act man would do a WHY IS SUBNAUTICA GOOD JUST REALLY BUGGY*

@nikolasxyinidis7514 3 года назад

This needs to go on r/murdered by words

@hellionsmith Год назад

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

@VitZ9 Год назад

Funny you mention that, when BeatSaber still gets daily uploads on social media, while everyone has forgotten about Half Life: VR tech demo.

@test_account939 Год назад

@@VitZ9 beatsaber doesn’t have an ending, half life alyx does

@justingovas415 10 месяцев назад

@@test_account939 It's still been largely forgotten. There are games with endings that are still being uploaded.

@oliversherman2414 Год назад

I still play TF2 to this day because it's a fun game. It's just a shame how Valve's reputation has fallen

@Elgar337 3 года назад

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.

@invoker6219 2 года назад

Most of Valve games are from a mod Dota 2 = warcraft frozen throne mod Tf2 = Quake mod CS = Half Life mod

@sandk7969 2 года назад

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.

@Isaiah-ft5nx 2 года назад

@@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.

@raizer903 2 года назад

@@invoker6219 yeah but their games are rlly fkin good too HL2 and Portal

@jaimeantonioolaguezchirino5805 2 года назад

@@Isaiah-ft5nx It would be but they don't even do that anymore, they are that lazy.

@JR-to7er 3 года назад

This was the only appropriate video to make after the L4D2 video

@KTTstudios 3 года назад

I haven’t played a valve game but I’m surprised to hear they’ve fallen

@lasterman94100 3 года назад

@@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

@Deadsea_1993 3 года назад

@@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"

@lasterman94100 3 года назад

@@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

@gentletal5101 3 года назад

Yes

@justintime5021 Год назад

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.

@Tallzom Год назад

Boneworks still was incredible and honestly far better in terms of player freedom

@justintime5021 Год назад

@@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.

@Duckbusinessman Год назад

@@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..

@justintime5021 Год назад

@@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.

@Duckbusinessman Год назад

@@justintime5021 ok? So what makes a two handed weapon more janky than holding anything else with two hands?

@chymeow9207 Год назад

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

@SourRobo8364 Год назад

You got it on Steam? My friends and I are looking for another teammate.

@chymeow9207 Год назад

@I Slay Goblins only on Xbox :( thank you for offering 🖤

@animation2040 Год назад

@@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

@ViolentSparkle Год назад

Yeah I miss playing l4d in the 360 party chat

@nrg6245 3 месяца назад

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

@tienkieu4806 2 года назад

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

@apieceoftoast768 2 года назад

Ironically causing the image to be ruined.

@exoticcreature3059 2 года назад

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.

@dantediiorio7547 2 года назад

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

@BlaacHollow 2 года назад

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.

@mohdsarul1530 2 года назад

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.

@dud5606 3 года назад

Maybe the real reason Valve doesnt release games anymore is because Gabe got sick of reading 10,000 emails each time?

@RadiumMuncher 3 года назад

Oh crap you might be on too something...

@Pangora2 3 года назад

Who does he think he is, the Yandere dev?

@ChilupaKing 3 года назад

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 🙏

@gasaiyuno6021 3 года назад

On some Yandev type shit.

@ninjachicken5263 3 года назад

Guess we found Gabe's alt

@anasshahid224 Год назад

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

@parizer9394 Год назад

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.

@hjrgf Год назад

@@parizer9394 everyone knows valve cant get to 3 they never made portal 3 half life 3 nothing is 3

@parizer9394 Год назад

@@hjrgf k

@Bhavyo Год назад

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.

@parizer9394 Год назад

@@Bhavyo the fuck do you mean it was a test?

@akimbanguehe3454 2 года назад

I love how you used music from every major valve game (Half-Life, Team Fortress 2 and Left 4 Dead; after all can't be talking about Valve without using their music) but also included my favourite Star Wars Sith theme.

@shweatypalms4423 3 года назад

The TF2 soundtrack is criminally underrated

@julian23561 3 года назад

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.

@theluiginoidperson1097 3 года назад

"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!"*

@John_Segieda 3 года назад

That’s an understatement

@comradekenobi6908 3 года назад

Not really

@katt1172 3 года назад

Not really

@bridgesbane7032 3 года назад

"rose from nothing and fell to greed" Sums up the whole video game world at this rate.

@Ghostred10101 3 года назад

True

@wasteplace1705 3 года назад

Seriously. And it’s a damn shame

@joshgutteridge2909 3 года назад

It's the same problem with every industry now these days: The wrong people took over and theres nothing we can do about it.

@edwardrichtofen1252 3 года назад

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.

@joshgutteridge2909 3 года назад

@@edwardrichtofen1252 people have finally discovered that money really does make the world survive.

@zakaryhoage5770 2 года назад

3:16 that was the best transition in the history of transitions my dude hahahaha I love your vids!💙💯👌🏼

@dominicmanester8125 Год назад

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 Год назад

thanks for confirming to everyone here that you play rapeday. Get a life dude.

@dominicmanester8125 Год назад

@@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.

@brutusb8004 Год назад

@@dominicmanester8125 Sure thing bro. Get help.

@dominicmanester8125 Год назад

@@brutusb8004 You first, furry boy. ;)

@lolibetic2206 Год назад

@@brutusb8004 you got owned mane XDD

@sdHansy 3 года назад

Team Fortress - A Quake mod DOTA - A WC3 mod Counter-Strike - A mod for Half Life Portal - Originally made by some students

@Adrian-vy5vn 3 года назад

Well, at least they offered some sort of patronage to some projects that were worthy of it.

@sdHansy 3 года назад

@@Adrian-vy5vn True. I just thought that proved that maybe Valve hasn't made that many games after all. At least not theirs originally.

@Dillbob1 3 года назад

@@sdHansy L4D was done by the Turtle Rock team as well

@drakk5 3 года назад

Counter strike was a quake mod

@grigss3027 3 года назад

@@drakk5 it was lit a hl mod, have you not played the old betas?

@itcamefromabox 3 года назад

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

@AxxLAfriku 3 года назад

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.

@KpK1Cioby 3 года назад

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.

@SillierExtra 3 года назад

@atticusherodes6648 3 года назад

@@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

@latinaparfait 3 года назад

@@atticusherodes6648 you can literally play all steam games offline, the only games you can't is if the game itself needs online.

@gunitaz3842 11 месяцев назад

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

@SkinnyFG 2 года назад

5:07 if I'm not mistaken, the Orange Box has/does receive little to absolutely 0 updates

@tristenbrown4208 3 года назад

“Valve used to make games, now they only make money.” -Sun Tzu

@DRGEngineer 3 года назад

Zanny and Act Man were a duo that was meant to happen

@StolenAlias 3 года назад

Definitely

@the_bane_of_all_anti_furry 3 года назад

he never say that...

@camtubecamtube 3 года назад

@@the_bane_of_all_anti_furry that imposibl..

@Glue_Eater06 3 года назад

Sun Tzu said that and I'd say he knows a little more about gaming than you do pal, BECAUSE HE INVENTED IT

@ELPRES1DENTE45 3 года назад

The greatest troll of all time would be if they titled their next Half-Life installment "Half-Life 4."

@debishvebishwish4839 3 года назад

For some reason, I would love this to happen.

@lbk1744 3 года назад

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 .

@igorkoskin5214 3 года назад

Half 4 Life

@ELPRES1DENTE45 3 года назад

@@igorkoskin5214 - 4 Half 4 Furious.

@WayStedYou 3 года назад

@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.

@4legolover 2 года назад

21:05 thanks for the shout out man!

@Fosi94 Год назад

17:27 this is gold.

@rkaneproductions9827 3 года назад

Valve is the video game equivalent to Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory

@gsogaming5783 3 года назад

This is perfect

@coobk373 3 года назад

Gabby newells vid'game factory

@carlthesanellama3633 3 года назад

small men doing a tribal dance in celebration of the dead children

@SwindlerJeff 3 года назад

Slavery?

@bushesbakebeans2063 3 года назад

Dead Children?

@OfficialMaxGames 3 года назад

You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain

@FatheredPuma81 3 года назад

I think a better quote for corporations would be "You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself dance between being a villain and a super villain."

@mikeexits 3 года назад

I don't like seeing this quote everywhere in YT comments. It promotes a very cynical and pessimistic perspective of life. It can realistically go either way. I've seen plenty of not-so-great people get their shit together and make very positive changes in their lives. There are also "evil" people who will probably never jump to the other end of the spectrum like Klaus Schwab, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, most politicians, etc. And there are very good people who will stay that way. And yes, people change; that doesn't mean they have to change from good to evil or vice versa in every case though. The only constant in this universe is change. Everything is in a constant state of flux and motion. If something appears static, it's because it's changing so slowly (or even so quickly) that you can't see it with your current frame of mind, senses, etc. "They say people never change, but that's bullshit, they do" - Tame Impala/Kevin Parker

@cri_c 3 года назад

@@mikeexits I mean you're right but...chill man, it's a quote from a Batman movie.

@mikeexits 3 года назад

@@cri_c I couldn't possibly be more chill hahaha. Wasn't trying to come across as angry. When I see a discussion that seems too one-sided or an aspect of our culture that has clear flaws, I always do what I can to plant seeds and balance it out. Much love :)

@oilcan3585 3 года назад

Mikeeureko human have feeble mind and no power on earth can change it

@benjaminfuller3390 Год назад

Really great video man I can tell this took a long time. I am doing a school project about Valve and I appreciate all the info you compiled here.

@VitZ9 Год назад

A school project on Valve? That explains why the education system is in the toilet.

@0fficialdregs 2 года назад

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

@y0av359 2 года назад

Valve isn't a triple A company they are a double A episode 1 company

@RinRin72769 Год назад

They're so good, they're actually an Alyx A Company

@near5148 Год назад

Espoide 3 for half life was cancelled lol

@coltforceplayer Год назад

@@near5148 do u know how to spell Episode

@DreamyAileen Год назад

@@coltforceplayer *Espoide

@coltforceplayer Год назад

@@DreamyAileen oh yeah my mistake

@ironicorca9743 3 года назад

The Hate is an essential part of loving a game.

@selpak3138 3 года назад

Fax

@mBowK 3 года назад

The way you know I like something is I critique it heavily.

@troyroberts9489 3 года назад

D2 community from my experience lol they literally got #nerfstasis trending

@Gigi-zr6hp 3 года назад

@@mBowK You must be a League of Legends player posting 15 paragraph essay on r/leagueoflegends

@mBowK 3 года назад

@@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.

@spekmannetje 2 года назад

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

@milkywayish9315 Год назад

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)

@techsquid3015 3 года назад

“Did you ever hear the tragedy of the legendary Valve?”

@marcoe.3314 3 года назад

(Slight head turn) No

@overlordmae9090 3 года назад

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.

@whiterunguard6415 3 года назад

taking an arrow to the knee is almost as painful as waiting for actman's why skyrim is so awesome

@techsquid3015 3 года назад

@@whiterunguard6415 I’d be down to watch act man give a review over Skyrim

@aleisinwndrlen7113 3 года назад

I thought not. It's not a story Epic Games would tell you.

@enlightenmentdoesntcomeeas5337 3 года назад

Act man: Companies strive to be respected, trusted and admired. EA has left the chat.

@gentletal5101 3 года назад

Remember when EA was good? Old sims Need for speed Battlefront Etc

@enlightenmentdoesntcomeeas5337 3 года назад

@@gentletal5101 We live in a society where honor is a distant memory.

@troypowers750 3 года назад

And Activision.

@enlightenmentdoesntcomeeas5337 3 года назад

@@troypowers750 Sadly. I have fond memories of COD3 and 2. And I know EA and Activision are not the only ones guilty of this.

@JRyan-lu5im 3 года назад

@@gentletal5101 RIP Medal of Honor ;_;

@Technephagia Год назад

Thank you for your insight Mr. Freeman. I know this subject is very near and dear to your heart.

@kristopherenglehart8704 Год назад

I wonder if you have other studios who could deserve that kind of video. Me I started gaming in 2010s so aside from ubisoft I didn't get to witness this dramatic of self destructions. (Thanks for all the knowledge you carried from the great times btw 🙏)

@soovi4522 3 года назад

Me, who bought The Orange Box for £6: *_This is business baby_*

@imtoddhowardandimadeskyrim6553 3 года назад

I bought it for 4 and got half life with it, take that

@javierriveraparra7429 3 года назад

6 what?

@imtoddhowardandimadeskyrim6553 3 года назад

@@javierriveraparra7429 pound

@thenameusmitch5270 3 года назад

I HAD A PLAN

@coltforceplayz5285 3 года назад

@@thenameusmitch5270 sure you did

@Laxhoop 3 года назад

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.

@mariano98ify 3 года назад

what about a Venture Bros cross over??

@blaniac6591 3 года назад

@@mariano98ify i don’t even know what that is

@mariano98ify 3 года назад

@@blaniac6591 sacrilege, check YT

@ranfan1820 3 года назад

@@mariano98ify Venture Bros got canceled.

@mariano98ify 3 года назад

@@ranfan1820 I know, fucking sad

@onikrux Год назад

I never had seen that Forum post about HL2 leaks- the basic and simple yet kind things people said in response touched my heart

@calebkrauter4027 Год назад

Good video. Can you do an update on the rise and fall of valve in light of the new steam deck? Do you believe there has been any positive change? Why would Gabe deliver steam decks by hand so I’ve heard.

@DrHundTF2 3 года назад

“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)

@oopsiedaisy730 3 года назад

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.

@uberfeel 2 года назад

Don't forget about their great characters lore and personality.

@tuanmuda8543 2 года назад

The characters are also likeable and the artstyle too.

@oopsiedaisy730 2 года назад

@Well I just had bad grammer sorry it still one of my favorite games

@LastGenRichtofenn 2 года назад

Isnt tf2 only multiplayer tho? A shitty one at that? Or does it have a singleplayer that i missed out on?

@Isaiah-ft5nx 2 года назад

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.

@evanjsx 9 месяцев назад

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

@michaelcullum7284 Год назад

I love your content and channel @theactman. My experience with steam has honestly been a positive one. I remember when ARK survival Evolved first came out I just started getting into PC gaming. I didn't really understand at the time how PC specs translated into gaming performance. So, like the ignorant and electronically stunted person that I was as a teen, I bought ARK. I booted it up and it was so unplayable that it would almost kill my laptop. So, I sent them an email explaining the situation and they refunded me. However, I should mention that I did say in my email to them that there were other games I had my eye on and wanted to purchase with the refund, which I promptly did. So, that may be why they refunded me.

@roadrash2005 Год назад

Basically they lost no money and had a happy customer. Sounds like a good deal for them

@admiralkaede Год назад

Doubtful from my experience u can refund any game under 2 hours no questions asked as long as u are not refunding constantly one time I just put not what I expected and still got a refund that same day u saying u will buy another game won't impact it oh and it has to be within 14 or 30 days don't remember of buying even if u haven't played

@justingovas415 10 месяцев назад

@@admiralkaede Wow your shilling is very much palpable holy shit

@Hawkenwhacker 6 месяцев назад

@@justingovas415 You're talking out of your ass.

@paglaith5561 5 месяцев назад

@@justingovas415 It's mentioned in their refund policy genius! No one is shilling for a corpo here.

@millionare5446 3 года назад

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

@cj-3810 3 года назад

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.

@darkmaster539 2 года назад

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.

@brettvv7475 2 года назад

@@darkmaster539 Valve includes support for Linux and windows because Microsoft "controls" windows? How does that make any sense?

@marcelotononBR 2 года назад

@@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.

@marcelotononBR 2 года назад

I would love to see what @Act Man has to say specifically about Valve third side (Linux and etecetera)

@davidcole3532 3 года назад

"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"

@azealous5108 3 года назад

Careful with that wrong-think there.

@leandersearle5094 3 года назад

@@azealous5108 No, no. Just hand him a big red button, I wanna see where this goes.

@nobleradical2158 3 года назад

@@leandersearle5094 one errant twitch...

@leandersearle5094 3 года назад

@@nobleradical2158 And we all get more fun than we are legally entitled too. Everybody wins!

@TruePT 3 года назад

@David Cole Based.

@Asalent Год назад

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.

@honor_1086 Год назад

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_

@garisonhayne668 Год назад

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).

@norrlandisawesome5794 Год назад

@@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

@legotheepic3611 Год назад

I like your funny words, magic man.

@kovak4576 Год назад

amazing

@ramonandrajo6348 Год назад

They are just lazy.

@twoface9959 3 года назад

“We are concerned that Valve may be replicating the experience for which EA is known.” Keep the meme alive

@stoyangenov6793 3 года назад

"We are concerned that this coment may be replicating the expirience that PUBG is known for"

@twoface9959 3 года назад

@B T R Something similar. Check out the Tragedy of PUBG. The exact quote is in the first few minutes of the video.

@stoyangenov6793 3 года назад

@B T R yep the devs said that about fortnite That is the origin

@nexusaimer 3 года назад

@@stoyangenov6793 we are concerned that this reply may be replicating the experience for which YT comments is known for.

@3unskippableads51 3 года назад

The tf2 ost is one of the most hype soundtracks ever

@a-10warthog78 3 года назад

Meet the like button

@lestranger7440 3 года назад

@@a-10warthog78 TU,TU,TUT! I don't know what to start with you. I mean,do you even know who you like tho?

@a-10warthog78 3 года назад

@@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.

@thespiralgoeson Год назад

I subscribed the moment you made the Futurama reference. Well done, sir. You had me at blackjack and hookers. Edit: The "you stupid" Simpsons clip later in the video was the icing on the cake. Classic Simpsons and Futurama references used for comedic beats? A man after my own heart!

@FreshlyFried Год назад

Valve hasn’t fallen yet. They just don’t pump garbage out of the studio just to make absurd deadlines

@wubbers662 Год назад

Because they don't make anything period.

@FreshlyFried Год назад

@@wubbers662 touché

@finnish_hunter Год назад

Because they make nothing, it has been 17 years since their last title.

@joshuawillis602 Год назад

I honestly don’t know which is worse a company that makes bad games or no games

@Ferroni03 3 года назад

For me Valve is like that child who is very lazy in doing things, but when he does them they are great

@mikecabrera7393 3 года назад

"Brilliant but lazy" - Spider-Man 2

@a-blivvy-yus 3 года назад

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 2 года назад

Yep, just like me. I'm gonna make the best game ever, as soon as I get off my butt to do it. 😂

@cinemalazare4850 2 года назад

@@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)

@a-blivvy-yus 2 года назад

@@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.

@commodore7331 3 года назад

Gamers: God I can't believe Valve doesnt make games anymore and just absorbs money from steam Valve: *[internally screaming about Source 2]*

@Mr_War_ 3 года назад

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

@commodore7331 3 года назад

@@Mr_War_ HLA is made with it and the S&box team finally finished the SDK

@ucngoc227 3 года назад

@@Mr_War_ and dota 2 after Wukong update using early stage of source 2

@Nyoko130 Год назад

What's the background music/theme called at 02:55? Pls, I've been looking for that one in particular for months :(

@codyjacobs6899 Год назад

Letting consumers create art for their game and giving them a cut for the sales of it is an incredibly cool idea and it sucks that they completely screwed that whole idea.

@Whatdotheycare 3 года назад

"You Either Die A Hero, Or You Live Long Enough To See Yourself Become The Villain"

@mr.mysteriousyt6118 3 года назад

AND THEM COME BACK TO THE GOOD SIDE

@verdantater9797 3 года назад

Valve basically became EA of PC Gaming :(

@kennythefatnord 3 года назад

@@verdantater9797 no they didn't lmao

@caduXxXlouD 3 года назад

@@verdantater9797 EA manages to be worse, and don't forget about Activision

@ok-rn2un 3 года назад

@@verdantater9797 not even close

@alanbossdon1386 3 года назад

There are 3 things that make Valve known: 1: they make awesome games 2: have questionable methods to gain more money. That' it.

@firelord3361 3 года назад

Why do so less people understand the "3" joke XD

@I_am_somebody_1234 2 года назад

@@firelord3361 lit

@tuanmuda8543 2 года назад

4. Can't count "Three" or what is that is.

@sygneg7348 2 года назад

The fact that you didnt include fact 3 makes so much sense because valve doesn't know how to count to 3.

@TheoKregaard 2 года назад

Genius! xD

@Lucaluciano-sc2db Год назад

It reminded me of that song called "La Argentinidad al palo" when the lyrics said that "We can be the best or the worst just as easily"

@ozthebeeman 5 месяцев назад

God imagine the fucking hype if half life 3 would be confirmed like literally imagine if they were like oh youre excited about the gta6 tease hold my fucking beer. That would have been such a power move

@tasmaniansyrup1645 3 года назад

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.

@compatriot852 3 года назад

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.

@Anthonyspartan514 3 года назад

@@compatriot852 oculus rift granted its 399 but a full version system package

@punchykarma6685 3 года назад

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

@Anthonyspartan514 3 года назад

@Snowwy do you mean you can find it for $243?

@you8just 3 года назад

Isn't there a 2D mod for alyx?

@spartanipods 2 года назад

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

@dragoonman1478 Год назад

Like seriously?

@Zitronbtw Год назад

@@dragoonman1478 yeah, among many other things that were entirely unrelated

@Villager_U Год назад

@@Zitronbtw among us

@RobinLundqvist 8 месяцев назад

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.

@thecaptain6520 6 дней назад

"Remember, the lesser of two evils is still evil, and the enemy of my enemy is not my friend." - Penn Jillette

@jac6548 Год назад

I thought steam's refund policy was one of its strengths? I can't count how many games I've tried, realized "nah this ain't for me" and refunded on steam no questions asked 14d refund policy for games is asking too much, especially since like 95% of steam games can easily be completed before then

@ge5510 Год назад

It's more about the process. Valve was forced by the Eu and Aust to create it instead of having the clients best interest in mind.

@Maxx-kq5qh 3 года назад

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.

@dusk5927 2 года назад

Yeah the last big update for tf2 was launched in 2017 and no one gets rid of those bots in casual.

@FolstrimHori 2 года назад

WE GOT SNAKES

@pyroclastic_phantom 2 года назад

we got worms

@Maxx-kq5qh 2 года назад

@@FolstrimHori you're goddamn right

@windnguyen2703 2 года назад

I still having fun with TF2 for all these years Xd

@AtemiRaven 2 года назад

Anyone else remember operation crow bar when people started mass mailing crow bars to Valve as a protest for no info on HL3?

@andrescamiloramosr 2 года назад

Holly shit, I never know about it, the power of internet and memes is understimated

@AtemiRaven 2 года назад

@@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.

@tearex8688 2 года назад

@@AtemiRaven . . . Hold my credit card

@spacedaniel492 7 месяцев назад

Valve is literally the only game company worth having confidence in and they don't even make games.

@The_Punisher Год назад

Don't forget they refuse to give TF2 any actual full updates

@Zipperskull_ Год назад

And that's why I don't play with a rotten corpse when the kids are trying to put make up it and cover the smell with cologne of optimism and mitigation, literally just embalming it.

@BlueCreeperGang Год назад

god TF2 was a mistake that game spawned the worst part of the valve community I hope that game never gets update.

@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache 3 года назад

"Valve really has become Harvey Dent, two sides of the same coin, one good, one evil" Perfectly put, The Act Man.

@Eternal_Sky_Universe 3 года назад

Hyori ittai yubi de hajiku koin ga sora ni mau

@Ndlanding 3 года назад

Do I detect a problem with figures of speech?

@donaldotrumpu2069 3 года назад

Gimme this mustache

@Owen221 3 года назад

This guy comments everywhere

@lorddukfoxyzeppeli7921 3 года назад

LMFAOOOOOOOOOOO YOU ARE HERE TOO!

@eshaanjain9379 3 года назад

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

@CommissarChaotic 3 года назад

Imagine if that was an inside joke Gabe's so committed to even until now..

@VashStarwind 3 года назад

LOL this is an underrated comment lol

@mbarker_lng Год назад

This is intriguing to me because I once worked at a company in an entirely different industry, but it functioned in a similar fashion. We had a constant, endless stream of money due to making products for the defense industry with "no-bid contracts". But this allowed the company to function in a fashion more wasteful than the government itself (and I have worked for the govt too). Unrealistic projects would be launched, 30 developers would be assembled to build it, then 6 months later it would be cancelled because an executive changed their mind. There was a project that was absolutely impossible since the technology probably won't exist for another 50 years and it was just like pretending to work, waiting for the inevitable cancellation, which came right on schedule. I could go on and on...

@elmoterminator6969 11 месяцев назад

It’s so sad that no one on the valve team can count past 3 😔

@StxnceUK 3 года назад

It’s such a shame that so many beloved companies fall to greed

@sauzeeee 3 года назад

Valve, Rockstar, Blizzard, EA, etc. Our generation has experienced the rise and fall of these great companies.

@eddysegafan6655 3 года назад

Bungie as well

@DefaultDanielS 3 года назад

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

@doodleboi7034 3 года назад

@@sauzeeee why rockstar?

@AnataBakka 3 года назад

@Rahul 007 supercell what? lol. i don't think they were ever considered a good company. only releasing p2w games

@matthewduncan5037 2 года назад

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

@ovadyarachman7243 2 года назад

Can't make em if you can't count to 3

@joemamayiursobadiamepicyoy8170 2 года назад

The thing is. They know that

@maxrobert123 2 года назад

I believe they make so much passive money through steam that they don't want to risk making anything really. Especially HL3.

@awzp918 2 года назад

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.

@muhammadyaseer9673 2 года назад

@@awzp918 ironic most game studio would milk the hell out of it

@Dylan03917 9 месяцев назад

Valve's biggest issue was that they never learned to count past 2. They failed kindergarten.

@thurstt9158 Год назад

Never played any valve games but recently I’ve been playing all of them beyond fun games and it’s crazy how many people still play them

@Neoyoshimetsu 3 года назад

I'm pretty sure Gabe is just hiding in his underground bunker playing Dota until the last drop of life leaves his body.

@mr.mysteriousyt6118 3 года назад

as one should

@theuniverse1158 3 года назад

@@papiezpolak8166 Oh, be ready mate, people will start defending the great game

@Paddict227 3 года назад

Not far off, he's been chilling in New Zealand since the pandemic started.

@bigchunguskeanureeveswhole1143 3 года назад

gabe is the god of steam, as long as steam is alive, he cannot die

@I_am_somebody_1234 2 года назад

the only place where valve´s fall is undeniable is tf2, they killed the best hero shooter because it wasnt bringing the dough...

@thepizzatime3502 2 года назад

“Frickin’ unbelievable” - Scout

@traveler-vii 2 года назад

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).

@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive 2 года назад

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.

@emmae11685 2 года назад

What's funny is that TF2 is definitely profitable, it's one of the biggest games on Steam, Valve just got bored of it.

@_GhostMiner 2 года назад

They're killing it by not caring about it

@harris23456 8 месяцев назад

Actman: makes a video analyzing valve and ends on a negative conclusion Valve less than 6 months later: *drops half life alyx*

@justacanadianguy07 8 месяцев назад

only took them 16 years to release a half life game.

@denizseyhan1053 7 месяцев назад

@@justacanadianguy07It was a good game , so good that it is the best game according to Metacritic user scores. Yeah it sucks that they do not relase games anymore but they are overall still a good company.

@rossharper1983 2 года назад

I started PC gaming even before Doom and Wolfenstein 3D, half life was a masterpiece but likewise, so is Half Life Alyx. I bought VR just for it and haven't regretted it since, VR is great fun and the next step forward in PC gaming, but I also know it'll never replace flat gaming

@dannyanderson6677 3 года назад

Valve: An example of when Corporatisation gets in the way of creativity and morals

@whiterunguard6415 3 года назад

taking an arrow to the knee is almost as painful as waiting for actman's why skyrim is so awesome

@ghostly2238 3 года назад

At least they aren’t as a bad as Bethesda

@lolhuh6682 3 года назад

@@whiterunguard6415 holy shit touch grass.

@jahbrenpanvilla 3 года назад

@@ghostly2238 at least Bethesda makes games

@ValentinoMarino11 3 года назад

@@whiterunguard6415 Go kick rocks. Your clearly bored.

@beastcoastindigo173 Год назад

This is one of THE BEST videos detailing the history of a company and how consumers reacted to that change. Both informational and entertainment value through the roof. Very well done Act Man. Well done