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Post by: Borys on September 20, 2013, 01:27:21 PM
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Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (NOT A BORYS THREAD)
Post by: Human Snorenado on September 20, 2013, 01:29:22 PM
:rejoice

Gaben coming to save you dirty, undeserving dirtpeople motherfuckers from physical media and closed operating systems

:rejoice
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (NOT A BORYS THREAD)
Post by: Mr. Gundam on September 20, 2013, 01:30:38 PM
And none of them will be Half Life 3.
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (NOT A BORYS THREAD)
Post by: Polari on September 20, 2013, 01:40:31 PM
Controller, Linux-based Steam Box, Half-Life 3 exclusive to Linux (therefore validating the existence of vidya forums so we can witness the meltdown). :rejoice
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (NOT A BORYS THREAD)
Post by: brob on September 20, 2013, 01:42:37 PM
moar free to play

moar user-created content

moar crowd-sourcing


#BasedValve

 :paul :gaben :paul
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (NOT A BORYS THREAD)
Post by: Brehvolution on September 20, 2013, 01:59:15 PM
Retweeting  :geoff

:teehee :crazybron

(http://i43.tinypic.com/213rmv6.jpg)
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (NOT A BORYS THREAD)
Post by: archie4208 on September 20, 2013, 02:32:43 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/bjaUgkO.jpg)

User created content :bow2

And none of them will be Half Life 3.

One can only hope.
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (NOT A BORYS THREAD)
Post by: Himu on September 20, 2013, 03:26:39 PM
Watch none of them be software.
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (NOT A BORYS THREAD)
Post by: Human Snorenado on September 20, 2013, 03:28:10 PM
Valve could never release another game again and still have one of the bigger influences on 21st century gaming, period.  Cry moar.
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (NOT A BORYS THREAD)
Post by: Steve Contra on September 20, 2013, 03:30:47 PM
Geoff Keighly's descent into being unpaid PR for game companies continues unabated.
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (NOT A BORYS THREAD)
Post by: Great Rumbler on September 20, 2013, 05:13:04 PM
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We've decided to integrate a crowdfunding platform within Greenlight for....ease of use
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:gaben

Wouldn't surprise me if there was some kind of crowdfunding integrated into Steam very soon [although Early Access Beta is already halfway there].
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (NOT A BORYS THREAD)
Post by: pilonv1 on September 20, 2013, 07:23:32 PM
Series 2 trading cards :hyper
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (NOT A BORYS THREAD)
Post by: Eel O'Brian on September 20, 2013, 08:51:10 PM
Hopefully one of the things they'll announce is Steam not being a gigantic piece of shit anymore!
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (NOT A BORYS THREAD)
Post by: brob on September 20, 2013, 09:01:34 PM
Maybe an offline mode that works ~70% of the time!?

Would love to see that.
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (NOT A BORYS THREAD)
Post by: Polari on September 20, 2013, 10:34:23 PM
Hopefully one of the things they'll announce is Steam not being a gigantic piece of shit anymore!

Half-Life 3 will happen long before this does.
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (NOT A BORYS THREAD)
Post by: chronovore on September 20, 2013, 10:48:10 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/bjaUgkO.jpg)

User created content :bow2

This thing is pretty baddass.
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (NOT A BORYS THREAD)
Post by: Great Rumbler on September 21, 2013, 11:06:24 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/1JNDsDz.gif)

 :leon
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (NOT A BORYS THREAD)
Post by: Positive Touch on September 21, 2013, 11:27:52 AM
yeah that looks legit
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (NOT A BORYS THREAD)
Post by: Joe Molotov on September 21, 2013, 05:02:50 PM
Mad legit.
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (NOT A BORYS THREAD)
Post by: Human Snorenado on September 21, 2013, 05:07:53 PM
(http://cdn.meme.li/i/opi18.jpg)
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (NOT A BORYS THREAD)
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on September 21, 2013, 05:22:25 PM
I hope that .gif is true except that Valve did it only to fuck with people
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (NOT A BORYS THREAD)
Post by: Phoenix Dark on September 21, 2013, 08:19:08 PM
HL3 is like Dre's Detox. Why would Dre waste his time releasing an album when he's making millions off headphones. Likewise, why would Valve waste time on HL3 when they're swimming in Steam monies

watch it be HL2 for Vita or something  :sabu
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (NOT A BORYS THREAD)
Post by: ferrarimanf355 on September 22, 2013, 12:32:31 PM
And none of them will be Half Life 3.
Came in here to say that.  :-[


























 :'(
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (NOT A BORYS THREAD)
Post by: Your Stalker on September 22, 2013, 01:57:45 PM
Left 4 Dead 3 and 2 pieces of DLC  :rejoice
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (NOT A BORYS THREAD)
Post by: Great Rumbler on September 22, 2013, 02:19:30 PM
One of the three announcements will be the integration of Neal Stephenson's CLANG sword-combat mechanics into a Half-Life spinoff featuring Gordon Freeman's brother John.
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (NOT A BORYS THREAD)
Post by: cool breeze on September 22, 2013, 03:41:24 PM
Left 4 Dead 3 and 2 pieces of DLC  :rejoice

Left 4 Dead 3 and Source 2 were leaked last month.  Only one piece of DLC I'm afraid  :-\

maybe Source engine 2 is like super Unity.  maybe Source engine 2 is code for Alien Swarm 2.
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (NOT A BORYS THREAD)
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on September 22, 2013, 04:26:15 PM
Maybe Steam will offer a sub model
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (NOT A BORYS THREAD)
Post by: Phoenix Dark on September 22, 2013, 08:04:37 PM
There would be no point due to DOTA2 (and Steam), but I wonder what a Valve RTS would look like. I remember hearing rumors about them working on on.
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (NOT A BORYS THREAD)
Post by: archie4208 on September 22, 2013, 11:14:19 PM
Just wait until the Dota 2 map editor hits. 

You'll get your Warcraft 4 before Blizzard even thinks of a design draft.
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (NOT A BORYS THREAD)
Post by: Human Snorenado on September 22, 2013, 11:19:05 PM
zomg almost 12 hours to go

*tweaks nipples in anticipation*
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (NOT A BORYS THREAD)
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on September 23, 2013, 08:07:38 AM
Wasnt expecting HL3 so.

They wont make it unless they know it can be huge.
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (NOT A BORYS THREAD)
Post by: archie4208 on September 23, 2013, 08:14:32 AM
HL3, as a single player 12 hour corridor shooter, doesn't fit Valve's current corporate culture. 

They're really big on the 'games as a service' ideology and exploiting integrating community work into their products.
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (NOT A BORYS THREAD)
Post by: Fragamemnon on September 23, 2013, 10:33:14 AM
they should really call the lower  end "plays indies and streams games from your PC" version the steam gaming companion cube and offer a dolled up version for the portal fanbase.
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (NOT A BORYS THREAD)
Post by: huckleberry on September 23, 2013, 10:38:32 AM
they should really call the lower  end "plays indies and streams games from your PC" version the steam gaming companion cube and offer a dolled up version for the portal fanbase.


first thing my daughter said when i told her and my son about the announcement was she hoped it was going to look like a companion cube.
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (NOT A BORYS THREAD)
Post by: magus on September 23, 2013, 10:57:36 AM
it's no surprise that you homo are so excited for the gaycube :supergay
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (NOT A BORYS THREAD)
Post by: hampster on September 23, 2013, 11:34:44 AM
I hope they release an official controller. I like the 360 controller but an official steam one with steam buttons and such would be nice
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (NOT A BORYS THREAD)
Post by: D3RANG3D on September 23, 2013, 01:01:10 PM
Steam OS!
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (SteamOS unveiled)
Post by: Eel O'Brian on September 23, 2013, 01:09:35 PM
hey, look, it's gabe's hubris moment
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (SteamOS unveiled)
Post by: brob on September 23, 2013, 01:14:58 PM
linux

:neogaf
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (SteamOS unveiled)
Post by: mjemirzian on September 23, 2013, 01:45:08 PM
So is this like the Android sales model? Give away the OS free to hardware manufacturers and make money on the built in store (Google store, Steam store, etc.)
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (SteamOS unveiled)
Post by: Great Rumbler on September 23, 2013, 01:47:49 PM
:yeshrug
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (SteamOS unveiled)
Post by: fizzel on September 23, 2013, 03:11:36 PM
All this because of that shitty microsoft windows 8 shop.
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (SteamOS unveiled)
Post by: Human Snorenado on September 23, 2013, 03:34:48 PM
For fucks sakes...

a) linux

b) improve your existing client first, for the love of fuck

c) linux
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (SteamOS unveiled)
Post by: archnemesis on September 23, 2013, 03:45:46 PM
What do you dislike about the current PC client? Its slowness or something else?
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (SteamOS unveiled)
Post by: Dickie Dee on September 23, 2013, 03:52:48 PM
Even when it's not hanging and /or crashing, it's slow as shit
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (SteamOS unveiled)
Post by: Human Snorenado on September 23, 2013, 03:53:03 PM
It's just massively in need of an update.  It's not very user friendly.
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (SteamOS unveiled)
Post by: archnemesis on September 23, 2013, 03:55:13 PM
It's stable for me. I'm mostly annoyed by that it's always much slower than my regular browser. Making it user friendly is not an easy task with all these new features.
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (SteamOS unveiled)
Post by: Rahxephon91 on September 23, 2013, 04:35:02 PM
So what was the big deal here?
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (SteamOS unveiled)
Post by: Purple Filth on September 23, 2013, 05:00:48 PM
this is it?
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (SteamOS unveiled)
Post by: Eel O'Brian on September 23, 2013, 05:02:33 PM
There are two more announcements left this week
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (SteamOS unveiled)
Post by: magus on September 23, 2013, 05:02:39 PM
So what was the big deal here?

superior pc race getting shafted :sabu
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (SteamOS unveiled)
Post by: Purple Filth on September 23, 2013, 05:10:17 PM
There are two more announcements left this week

so Steambox with this OS

Half Life 3 exclusive  :shaq
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (SteamOS unveiled)
Post by: Tasty on September 23, 2013, 05:11:18 PM
There are two more announcements left this week

so Steambox with this OS

Half Life 3 exclusive  :shaq

Make it happen based :gaben :aah :rejoice
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (SteamOS unveiled)
Post by: Joe Molotov on September 23, 2013, 05:17:07 PM
It's just massively in need of an update.  It's not very user friendly.

It's better than Origin/Desura/PSN/XBLA/iTunes/Google Play.
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (SteamOS unveiled)
Post by: Tasty on September 23, 2013, 05:20:06 PM
COG is right, Steam's UI is pretty 90's. It's not iTunes bad but it's still worse than the other services Joe listed (UI-wise.)
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (SteamOS unveiled)
Post by: Human Snorenado on September 23, 2013, 05:39:17 PM
I really should design UIs for a living.  Everything would be simple, easy to use, and suck your dick.

If you're a woman, it would grow you a dick, then suck it.
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (SteamOS unveiled)
Post by: Tasty on September 23, 2013, 05:40:47 PM
I really should design UIs for a living.  Everything would be simple, easy to use, and suck your dick.

If you're a woman, it would grow you a dick, then suck it.

:phil
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (SteamOS unveiled)
Post by: Positive Touch on September 23, 2013, 06:23:53 PM
It's just massively in need of an update.  It's not very user friendly.

It's better than Origin/Desura/PSN/XBLA/iTunes/Google Play.

at least with all of those i can read the on-screen text without using a fucking magnifying glass
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (SteamOS unveiled)
Post by: chronovore on September 23, 2013, 10:51:02 PM
I'm pretty curious about SteamOS, but don't know where I need it. Still, I'm as or more likely to bite on SteamBox than XBone or PS4.
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (SteamOS unveiled)
Post by: thisismyusername on September 23, 2013, 11:09:23 PM
COG is right, Steam's UI is pretty 90's. It's not iTunes bad but it's still worse than the other services Joe listed (UI-wise.)

Woah, woah, woah. No way is the redesigned PSN store (pretty to look at, horrible to load) better than Steam. Neither is the X-box Live Marketplace.

Origin's the only one on that list I can say is better than Steam.

Speaking of Steam's UI... redoing the entire stat page and other things with this new update...  :lol ::) Not bad, but man, I hate when UI designers do "minor changes" like that. What is the point?
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (SteamOS unveiled)
Post by: Himu on September 25, 2013, 07:00:39 AM
It's just massively in need of an update.  It's not very user friendly.

Steam. Not user friendly? Please indulge.
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (SteamOS unveiled)
Post by: huckleberry on September 25, 2013, 07:37:29 AM
think they will announce controller today.
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (itsfuckingnothing.gif)
Post by: cool breeze on September 25, 2013, 01:11:16 PM
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Am I going to be using a mouse and a keyboard in the living-room?

If you want. But Steam and SteamOS work well with gamepads, too. Stay tuned, though - we have some more to say very soon on the topic of input.

looking forward to announcement three
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (itsfuckingnothing.gif)
Post by: Joe Molotov on September 26, 2013, 12:04:00 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/1JNDsDz.gif)

 :leon

(http://i.imgur.com/BYNy9F8.gif)
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (itsfuckingnothing.gif)
Post by: Tasty on September 26, 2013, 12:40:30 AM
Holy shit. :rofl
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (itsfuckingnothing.gif)
Post by: chronovore on September 26, 2013, 02:43:44 AM
Headcrab?
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (itsfuckingnothing.gif)
Post by: Joe Molotov on September 26, 2013, 08:10:17 AM
Headcrab?

It's nothing. :lol
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (itsfuckingnothing.gif)
Post by: chronovore on September 27, 2013, 03:14:17 AM
We've been Gaberolled?
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (itsfuckingnothing.gif)
Post by: chronovore on September 28, 2013, 05:17:21 AM
How about that controller?

I'm terrified by nonvirtual virtual thumpads. No, thank you.
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (itsfuckingnothing.gif)
Post by: Human Snorenado on September 28, 2013, 05:16:39 PM
I don't get it... dual analogs suck for control.  We're all just USED TO IT at this point.  The controller is the only legitimately interesting thing so far.  Why is everybody so freaked out by it?
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (itsfuckingnothing.gif)
Post by: Diunx on September 29, 2013, 11:57:25 AM
Trackpads for movement suck cocks that's why.
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (itsfuckingnothing.gif)
Post by: fistfulofmetal on September 29, 2013, 12:11:40 PM
I don't get it... dual analogs suck for control.  We're all just USED TO IT at this point.  The controller is the only legitimately interesting thing so far.  Why is everybody so freaked out by it?

change is difficult

these things.... they take time.
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (itsfuckingnothing.gif)
Post by: mjemirzian on September 29, 2013, 12:12:26 PM
The new controller looks pretty cool to me. I embrace change if it's an improvement, and dual analog sticks could definitely be improved on.

People complaining just because 'it looks different', maybe take another look at it?

If Gabe can bring mouse/kb type accuracy and movement to a controller, that would be great.
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (itsfuckingnothing.gif)
Post by: Stoney Mason on September 29, 2013, 12:15:19 PM
I don't get it... dual analogs suck for control.

I don't agree with this at all. In fact I remember mentioning that I was slightly disappointed that neither PS 4 or Xbox one were really adding anything control wise and the prevailing opinion of the posters at that time was that the current controllers were fine  and it was a good thing that nobody was doing anything "innovative".

Dual analog works for a wide variety of games. There is a reason it has become the standard on consoles. It wasn't just coincidence. Now if there is a better format that can take over and is easy to use, and doesn't involve a lot of hardware then cool.
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (itsfuckingnothing.gif)
Post by: Rufus on September 29, 2013, 12:38:15 PM
A very definite advantage is that you're not accelerating and decelerating the cursor as you would with a stick. Well, not unless the game in question treats the pads that way. 
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (itsfuckingnothing.gif)
Post by: cool breeze on September 29, 2013, 12:58:17 PM
yeah, depends what you mean by control.  I know a touchpad is better for aiming, like, this is something I've been convinced of for years and have been waiting for someone to do.  But it's the left stick behavior, the general character movement, that's the hurdle for this thing.  Always thought it'd be analog stick on the left, touchpad on the right.
Title: Re: Valve to announce THREE (3) things soon (itsfuckingnothing.gif)
Post by: thisismyusername on September 29, 2013, 12:58:46 PM
Trackpads for movement suck cocks that's why.

Every single impression from devs we've seen is positive thus far

:umad

Maybe mad, but I don't see a lie in his opinion. Like him, Gabe and Company need demo days (or send me a demo unit  :-*) to convince me. Developers say a lot of things, but that doesn't make them the "authority" like the mass-consumer base. If the consumer-base doesn't like it and doesn't buy it, well... it's a "flop" no matter how "innovative" some people find it.

yeah, depends what you mean by control.  I know a touchpad is better for aiming, like, this is something I've been convinced of for years and have been waiting for someone to do.  But it's the left stick behavior, the general character movement, that's the hurdle for this thing.  Always thought it'd be analog stick on the left, touchpad on the right.

Given they've said people can modify the API and controller hardware, it's only a matter of time until someone does that I feel.

I think the biggest thing for me from the controller announcement is Valve going "okay, if you don't like this you can hack it yourself." It's gonna be realllllll interesting to see what hardware and software nerds do in regards to the "OS" and controller to improve them.