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From recent accounts of former employees, he's pretty hands off with the company nowadays, mainly playing Dota 2 in his office and occasionally coming out to se
by dx87 7y ago
From recent accounts of former employees, he's pretty hands off with the company nowadays, mainly playing Dota 2 in his office and occasionally coming out to see how everyone is doing. I was suprised to find out that he's one of the main reasons that Windows became the most popular PC gaming platform. He was one of the main proponents of porting the original DOOM to Windows, and him and his team were responsible for creating DirectX before he left to create Valve.
- johnchristopher 7y ago> From recent accounts of former employees, he's pretty hands off with the company nowadays, mainly playing Dota 2 in his office and occasionally coming out to see how everyone is doing. Uh. That's kinda sad. I remember messages on some forums (edit: around hl2 release) from some gamers asking if he was okay since he had gained a lot of weight at that time. I remember one of the guy who won a prize competition and was given a tour of Valve offices and took pictures of the crowbar (or something else, details are fuzzy). It looks like depression from here.
- hutzlibu 7y agoSo he has a money making plattform now, but maybe he should have focused more on making good games, that make people happy, to stay happy himself?
- johnchristopher 7y agoSorry, I didn't mean to imply anything. It's just what comes to my mind when I picture the Valve of today upon reading OP's comment (playing dota in the office). It's more a statement about how depressing the whole thing is. Yeah, I am still bitter about hl3 and the "we have the tools to churn out an hour of hl every week so we are going into episodes". Sigh.