Valve co-founder: good gamers should pay less, and vice versa

[Jurassic4096]

The only Valve game i own and play is L4D2, and those players are the worst of any online game i have ever played. it's rampant with racism, mic spamming, griefers, ragers, people asking if you have a mic in text because they think you need a mic to hear (LMAO), no level system, lobby system/voting is horrible... It's fun when you get none of the above.

Work on that before you start making any deals. The people that are gonna be the "good" guys are gonna be the ones that aren't even good at the game, and just the ones that keep quiet when their teammates start going rogue.

 

[benken2202001]

People like free. You give the people free, and they'll do anything you ask.

I'd rather see advertisements during loading screens or put a mountain dew add between songs on one of Liberty City's radio stations. Reduce prices and get people back onto PC gaming. Pushing Portal 2 at people for a rediculous price isn't a good way to keep ur good "name." Sure I'm gonna use Steam still, cause its free. But I'll think twice before paying for Valve again.

 

[Adhmuz]

I think Mr. Newell has been spending a little too much time with Mr. Sheen. If anyone out there is making $20k a month from Steam please stand up and say hi, because otherwise I don't believe it to be true. This wouldn't be the first time Steam lies to its clientèle to try to get more attention.

 

[Guest]

Seriously...

The author of that diatribe is a child. Steam serves transients & their business model is based on knee-jerk buys from Steams membership.

These developers are utterly ignorant & lost. Bf3 should cost $100 bucks, have root kit and disables the game until u uninstall ur hacks. Then... ud see BF3 being played more, being talked about more, being used as the next platform for tourney play.

Selling off used/old games that "somebody" can now try because of a weekend sale is all kiddie space. Steam simply is not a service needed.for home owners and adults. Provide CHEAT FREE games and provide real tangable discs...

Nearly everyone I know wants their discs.. unless u like to pretend ur a gamer n use a laptop.


Where are the real games... that cost money and provide a professional environement? Azzh0l3s & 1d0its will be locked out of their $100 game and cry to mommy (when they are embarrased and can no longer play the adult game because "all they were doing was only using a sprint hack, not aimbot" ... lol

GOOD PLAYERS don't mind paying $100 on a quality game, specially when only real players r there... not hacktoidz.

 

[Guest]

I'd pay $150 bucks if I knew no hackers could play BF3... all long-term games like the BF series should be like what you are saying (eula + rootkit etc)

 

[Darkshadoe]

Guest said:
Seriously...

The author of that diatribe is a child. Steam serves transients & their business model is based on knee-jerk buys from Steams membership.

These developers are utterly ignorant & lost. Bf3 should cost $100 bucks, have root kit and disables the game until u uninstall ur hacks. Then... ud see BF3 being played more, being talked about more, being used as the next platform for tourney play.

Selling off used/old games that "somebody" can now try because of a weekend sale is all kiddie space. Steam simply is not a service needed.for home owners and adults. Provide CHEAT FREE games and provide real tangable discs...

Nearly everyone I know wants their discs.. unless u like to pretend ur a gamer n use a laptop.

Where are the real games... that cost money and provide a professional environement? Azzh0l3s & 1d0its will be locked out of their $100 game and cry to mommy (when they are embarrased and can no longer play the adult game because "all they were doing was only using a sprint hack, not aimbot" ... lol

GOOD PLAYERS don't mind paying $100 on a quality game, specially when only real players r there... not hacktoidz.

Yes because button mashing takes great skill huh? That is all any video game is really..a series of mashed buttons to produce a satisfying outcome. If a "GOOD PLAYER" has any "skills" at all, they would know how to overcome cheaters and not ***** and moan about it. Here is another idea, don't play on servers with people that cheat.

Yes, lets raise the price of games so you can feel better about your game play. Raising the price of the game does not make it better, it just makes it more expensive.

 

[gobbybobby]

wow Jurassic I play L4D and L4D2 on PC and never get anything you have described. I play with freinds maily tho, maybe you should get some freinds.

 

[stewi0001]

so people who have jobs and/or lives will have to pay more than the jobless and/or lifeless players? hmmm... sounds like a bad idea.

When I play FPSs I don't leave if ONE person leaves, unless they are a friend, I'll leave if the match feels too one sided. Yes even if I'm on the winning team cuz it just gets boring.

 

[ramonsterns]

gobbybobby said:
wow Jurassic I play L4D and L4D2 on PC and never get anything you have described. I play with freinds maily tho, maybe you should get some freinds.

Some people don't have friends online when they want to play.

And I'd learn how to spell friends before you tell someone to get some.

 

[pcnthuziast]

The success of Steam has apparently got good ole Gabe hella gased, this idea is ludacris... period!

 

[MrAnderson]

Come on people this was more of a PR stunt... although I imagine that this concept could come alive in a milder form.

It is like customer rewards. If you are a very positive force within a community you should be rewarded right. - But do take what and how he says it with a grain of salt.

 

[LinkedKube]

What????

They are paying some people $20,000 a week. That is $80,000 a month and around $960,000 for a year. That is almost a million dollars. If you can make $20,000 a week, would you leave you house? Would you go a vacation? You have a life just still on your butt playing games every day and not even know that life has just past you by.

But this type of person is consider to be a high value customer. To me it sounds like a addict, and this addict is to attract more addicts.

Sounds more like someone who made smart choices early in life and now makes money sitting on his *** while most people dread going to their dead end jobs. If anything you should take the lesson from learning that. The guy is kicking your *** because he spends 90% of his day worry free. However he spends that time shouldn't be a big deal to you or us.

 

[theholmboy]

Since it is likely that you're same here as you are in Steam, I can see immediately by the wide variance in the comments who would get the discount and who would get the full price + $100 charge for voice