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Not surprised. What could a job at either Valve or Bungie give him that he doesn't get now?
by rdj 16y ago
Not surprised. What could a job at either Valve or Bungie give him that he doesn't get now?
- pcestrada 16y agoQuite true. Notch has the potential to build his own 'Valve' or 'Bungie'.
- kevingadd 16y agoAsk the Portal team? Or the guys who made Team Fortress? Or the guys who made Counter-Strike? To be more precise: Working at a larger studio like Valve means you trade some creative control and (in notch's case) some short-term income for reliable long-term income and access to things you could never get in the short term as an individual, like access to devkits for consoles, access to well-trained, highly skilled QA/art/programming departments, decades of design and programming experience from leads and senior developers, etc.
- city41 16y agoThe Portal team was scooped up from Digipen. If their game was netting them over $200k/day, something tells me they wouldn't have been so eager to join Valve. Hey I f'ing love Valve, my all time favorite game company. No one is trying to suggest working for Valve is a bad thing. But a little perspective is needed here.