Steam reviewers are review bombing Dota for "killing Half Life 3"

[Master Disaster]

35 minutes ago, Agost said:

I mean, Valve makes tons of money with Steam, they could hire back lots of people (and new developers too) and make new MAGNIFICENT games like HL and Portal just to improve the company image. Moreover, lots of steam users would buy those new games since they can push a lot of advertising on their own platform.

Imagine only 10% of steam users buying HL3 for an average of $20. It's 120 million dollars, three times the budget of HL2

Now imagine Valve making $1m per year on an item that took them maybe 2 months to develop and they can churn out 40 to 50 of these items per year, each making them $1m.

 

$120m profit for 8 years work or $40m to $50m per year. Where would you put your efforts?

[Agosto]

3 minutes ago, Misanthrope said:

I covered that: appeasing fans is not really enough to justify an AAA game with an AAA budget. Fans will eventually just shut up believe it or not.

 

2 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

Now imagine Valve making $1m per year on an item that took them maybe 2 months to develop and they can churn out 40 to 50 of these items per year, each making them $1m.

 

$120m profit for 8 years work or $40m to $50m per year. Where would you put your efforts?

Ok guys I just want HL3/ep3  (ノಠ ∩ಠ)ノ彡( 

[The Benjamins]

3 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

Now imagine Valve making $1m per year on an item that took them maybe 2 months to develop and they can churn out 40 to 50 of these items per year, each making them $1m.

 

$120m profit for 8 years work or $40m to $50m per year. Where would you put your efforts?

To add on this, look at Riot Games, they made over $1 Billion last year off a Free to play game that gets updates every month. and most of the updates are tweaks and new "assests" (skins, champs, ect)

[suicidalfranco]

41 minutes ago, Bouzoo said:

I wouldn't call Bioshock, Singularity, F.E.A.R, Crysis, Far Cry etc. boring. 

would only agree on Bioshock, the first, cause it gave me jump scares, the rest: meh

[Bouzoo]

Just now, suicidalfranco said:

would only agree on Bioshock, the first, cause it gave me jump scares, the rest: meh

Jump scares? That game was not about jump scares at all. When you play all of them in order with DLC, and play burial at sea 2 last, then the game goes to a new level of mindfuck.

[Misanthrope]

1 hour ago, Agost said:

 

Ok guys I just want HL3/ep3  (ノಠ ∩ಠ)ノ彡( 

Play the new Prey instead:

 

[suicidalfranco]

43 minutes ago, Bouzoo said:

Jump scares? That game was not about jump scares at all. When you play all of them in order with DLC, and play burial at sea 2 last, then the game goes to a new level of mindfuck.

shit poping out of nowhere did have the desired effect on me though

 

[Agosto]

4 minutes ago, Misanthrope said:

Play the new Prey instead

E X A M S 

1 minute ago, suicidalfranco said:

shit poping out of nowhere did have the desired effect on me though

 

Play Dead Space

[PlayStation 2]

Remember, launching the odd shitty update for TF and CS is more profitable than actually making a game.

[Paranoid Kami]

I never liked any of the Half Life games. Always found it annoying that people are going crazy asking for a sequel.

[suicidalfranco]

53 minutes ago, Agost said:

E X A M S 

Play Dead Space

tried 3, instant turn off

[Agosto]

26 minutes ago, suicidalfranco said:

tried 3, instant turn off

Only the first one, 2 is okay, 3 is regarded as the worst of the trilogy (never played)

[Bananasplit_00]

HL3 will be VR im guessing, they released HL2 when they had made a new fancy physics engine they wanted to show and HL1 was inovative with the 3D graphics or something, so HL is a bit like a tech demonstration from valves side so VR would make a lot of sense

[Agosto]

2 minutes ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

HL3 will be VR im guessing, they released HL2 when they had made a new fancy physics engine they wanted to show and HL1 was inovative with the 3D graphics or something, so HL is a bit like a tech demonstration from valves side so VR would make a lot of sense

https://www.pcgamesn.com/half-life-3/half-life-3-wont-be-a-vr-game-according-to-valve

Old news, but it's an official statement

[Bananasplit_00]

Just now, Agost said:

https://www.pcgamesn.com/half-life-3/half-life-3-wont-be-a-vr-game-according-to-valve

Old news, but it's an official statement

well then if they ever make it im guessing it will incorperate their new fancy thing they want to show whatever that will be then. 

[ARikozuM]

3 hours ago, Bouzoo said:

I wouldn't call F.E.A.R, Far Cry etc. boring. 

I wouldn't either... I'd call them poor excuses for stories... And horror for the former. 

[ARikozuM]

27 minutes ago, Agost said:

Only the first one, 2 is okay, 3 is regarded as the worst of the trilogy (never played)

Nearly any horror game with co-op is rendered non-horror due to the fact that speaking with another person can take you out of the experience; see Dead Space 3 and Resident Evil 7 (though some parts were creepy in their own right). 

[EPENEX]

Valve makes more of a return on investment from DotA 2 and CS:GO combined then they will ever make from sales on Half-Life 3. Basic economics say, no HL3.

[KingKeith55]

The funny thing is most of the bad reviews are complaining about the game itself, not just "no half life 3 stupid volvo" messages. And with good reason; dota 2 is a relatively shitty game, which valve seems to favor over all else. They had a good thing going with team fortress and counter-strike, but their neglect for those games (mainly team fortress, counter strike is at least getting a bit of attention) is leading to a decrease in players.

[Agosto]

9 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

Nearly any horror game with co-op is rendered non-horror due to the fact that speaking with another person can take you out of the experience; see Dead Space 3 and Resident Evil 7 (though some parts were creepy in their own right). 

Dead Space 3, AFAIK, is bad because it's just not a Dead Space, it's more like a generic third person shooter.

 

I don't like horror stuff in general, but Dead Space is a really good game. Sadly on PC it's plagued by console porting issue, like tremendous mouse acceleration 

[Bouzoo]

22 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

I wouldn't either... I'd call them poor excuses for stories... And horror for the former. 

Well F.E.A.R imo had a good story which they f***** in 2 and especially 3. 1 was awesome as a game at the time. Far Cry 3 did have better character development than the story I'll give you that, but FC4 did have a proper story with no happy endings which I liked.

[Jito463]

10 hours ago, NvidiaIntelAMDLoveTriangle said:

It's actually a very small group but very loud. The majority of pc gamers care about 1) Dota, 2) LOL, 3) PUBG, 4) WOW, 5) Overwatch and 6) card games.

I must not be part of the majority, then (but then, I already knew that).

1) Don't care, never played

2) Don't care, never played

3) Mildly interested, never played

4) Don't care, never played

5) Don't care, never played

6) Really, really, really don't care.  If I never see another card game shoved in my face by Steam, it'll still be too soon.

8 hours ago, Bouzoo said:

I wouldn't call Bioshock, Singularity, F.E.A.R, Crysis, Far Cry etc. boring. 

I'd call Far Cry 2 boring.  I miss the original Far Cry, before Ubi fouled it all up.  I should reinstall it and play it again.  I even still have the 64-bit patch for it (it was one of the first games - if not the first - to provide an AMD64 compatible executable that ran native 64-bit).

[ARikozuM]

2 minutes ago, Jito463 said:

I'd call Far Cry 2 boring.  I miss the original Far Cry, before Ubi fouled it all up.  I should reinstall it and play it again.  I even still have the 64-bit patch for it (it was one of the first games - if not the first - to provide an AMD64 compatible executable that ran native 64-bit).

I find them all boring, except Primal and 1. The other titles feel like fetch quests where "freedom" is mostly "restriction" from anything eventful. 

[vanished]

That's really stupid and a bad idea in my opinion.  Things like this diminish what little power mass outcry already had... don't "cry wolf"; you'll throw away what's left 

[Master Disaster]

I would like to add that I wouldn't be surprised to see a Half Life VR game at some point in the future, not because Valve would want to make it but because Valve want the Vive to sell and HLVR would be a unit shifter like nothing else could ever hope to be and even then I wouldn't expect a full fat half life experience, just the bare minimum required to call it a game.