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Nobody asked for a Valve card game. We're all waiting for a '3' of any of their franchises.
"Nobody asked for" is an unproductive meme that gets parroted all too often. No one asked for Half-Life or Portal or DotA or even MtG either.
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"Nobody asked for" is an unproductive meme that gets parroted all too often. No one asked for Half-Life or Portal or DotA or even MtG either.
DotA was a well established Warcraft 3 custom game with the same name before Valve copied it.
Portal was actually a similar thing. It started as a student game called Narbacular Drop. Valve hired that team, who turned the concept into Portal.
Likewise they hired Icefrog from DotA to work on DotA 2.
That's a good strategy.
Commercial failure, perhaps. I'd suggest not delivering Half Life 3 (or even HL2: Episode 3 ) is their biggest failing. All the resources in the world, and they're happy resting on their laurels. It's such a shame.
Commercial failure, perhaps. I'd suggest not delivering Half Life 3 (or even HL2: Episode 3 ) is their biggest failing. All the resources in the world, and they're happy resting on their laurels. It's such a shame.
Also hype around hl3 is too much, it will be below expectations no matter how much hard Valve tries.
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> Standing above in their white tower, yelling down "but the math says you're wrong" doesn't matter if nobody's having any fun. Even Wizards of the Coast (WotC) struggles with this in Magic: the Gathering, and that game has been around for over 25 years and remains King of the paper TCGs. Counterspells, discard, and land destruction are all very balanced effects, but a plurality of the players hate them so much that…
> Making something balanced and competitive, though necessary, are secondary to the enjoyment of the game. That's generally not true today, where 'organic' marketing driven by professional streamers is a large part of potential players' initial exposure to a game. Streamers can easily kill a game in its infancy simply by providing negative feedback (as we're seeing here). But the pro players will only commit if they…
Streamers are great advertisers, but players are your customers.
Commercial failure, perhaps. I'd suggest not delivering Half Life 3 (or even HL2: Episode 3 ) is their biggest failing. All the resources in the world, and they're happy resting on their laurels. It's such a shame.
Commercial failure, perhaps. I'd suggest not delivering Half Life 3 (or even HL2: Episode 3 ) is their biggest failing. All the resources in the world, and they're happy resting on their laurels. It's such a shame.
Indeed there’s no level of success for a narrative FPS big enough to warrant waiting so long on such a valuable IP. Why let the workflow/team get stale?...the answer must be that engineering was rerouted to Steam or porting or something but they could’ve made at least tens of millions * several sequels by now...
Commercial failure, perhaps. I'd suggest not delivering Half Life 3 (or even HL2: Episode 3 ) is their biggest failing. All the resources in the world, and they're happy resting on their laurels. It's such a shame.
Indeed there’s no level of success for a narrative FPS big enough to warrant waiting so long on such a valuable IP. Why let the workflow/team get stale?...the answer must be that engineering was rerouted to Steam or porting or something but they could’ve made at least tens of millions * several sequels by now...
Steam is hundreds of times more profitable than any game could ever be.
Hearthstone is already strong in this market, they have $0 entry fee and only charge for the cards. It's a pay2win game, some like/accept it, and some don't. I don't. Because I'm not willing to pay some unknown amount of money for a game just to stay competitive everytime the meta changes. I play games for fun, and being destroyed in a game because of IRL money is no fun.
Now what I would consider as a strong alternative to Hearthstone, would be a game asking for a triple-A entry fee, and then charging nothing extra. In this game everyone would have the same chances, and nobody would have to feel bad just because they didn't invest enough money in a gambling scheme.
What Valve offered is a triple-A entry fee, and then charging for anything they can. Now how is this can ever be a good offer? I don't know. I simply ignored the game and moved on.