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'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers' (www.pcgamer.com)
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Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Documentary by Valve

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I’m not complaining, just noting that it was very lucrative. Folks are really overreacting with the downvotes. Chill people.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It sure sounded like you were. It's because you said cash grab. That's a negative attribute. You basically said it's garbage but made him a lot of money. Along the lines of like the last 4 terminator movies.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Well, I use Steam a ton and have a Steam Deck. But, Steam dev effort to income ratio is probably ridiculously skewed. The company pretty much prints money. In that way, Steam is a cash grab.

I do question if Steam hadn’t been such a success if Valve might have released HL3 by now.

It has Google vibes to it. Google makes so much money in ad revenue that a lot of their other products just get cancelled.

I do like Valve overall though and am a fan. I’m a fan that wants to know the ending of HL3.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

cash grab
noun
plural cash grabs
: the greedy pursuit of an opportunity for making money especially when done without regard for ethics, concerns, or consequences

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cash%20grab