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Does it ever happen that a company manages to grow that big and not become something like that?
by m12k 4y ago
Does it ever happen that a company manages to grow that big and not become something like that?
- ralusek 4y agoI think that the only way for large companies to stay cool is to remain private.
- vintermann 4y agoIn the games business, Valve is surprisingly OK. Also they're private and not interested in becoming part of a roll-up. I don't think those things are unrelated.
- gabereiser 4y agoThey also got that steam train they've been riding which makes it pretty easy to say they're not interested in being part of a roll-up.
- sdwr 4y agoGood point, uh, GabeR
- Thaxll 4y agoValve dooes not make games anymore though. One game ( VR ) in the last 10 years?
- vintermann 4y agoThey're still very much in the games business, though. And it's better to have published few games than to milk their "franchises" dry in the usual way.
- Thaxll 4y ago"better"? The only reason they don't make game anymore is because Steam is a printing money machine.
- vintermann 4y agoWell, yeah. But it is better. I'll trade not having HL3 for not having "spend P2W gems to boost production" type games. But sure, Valve has loot crates in TF2, so they're not saints, it's very likely true that it's just because they're printing money that they're not shovelling crap (of their own). But other companies shovel crap despite printing money.
- Aeolun 4y agoThat game was really good though. I was reminded of a comment I read earlier to the extend that HL3 was never made because they couldn’t find a way to make it as much of a game changer as HL1&2 had been.