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People don't understand that Valve is not really a video game company anymore.

• theandrewbailey 10y ago
  That's vague (thus arguably incorrect). Valve makes a video game every few years, and sells more video games except for about five other companies.
  • thatswrong0 10y ago
    I think it's a correct assessment. CSGO came out 3 years ago (and they didn't even foot all of the development). Dota 2 came out 4 years ago (same story - they brought IceFrog in for it). That's a long time since they've released anything major that they've mostly developed in house. But it makes sense that they've stopped developing new IP / games - the above games, alongside Steam, make them a ton of money. They can probably get away with not developing a new game for a long time.
  • Impossible 10y ago
    This is commonly mentioned on the internet because Valve puts a lot of effort into Steam and hardware, but they also have (at least) three games in active development that are among the top grossing games on Steam, and among the top grossing and most played PC games. No one would say, Blizzard, Riot, Supercell or Machine Zone aren't game companies because they rarely release new games and most of their revenue comes from a few, large player count (or high monetizing), consistently played games. I've taken it mostly as code for "Valve doesn't release Half-Life or Portal games as much as I'd like" :).