Valve open to being acquired
DiscoZombie
Join Date: 2003-08-05 Member: 18951Members
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the long and the short of it is, Valve has said that they're not against being acquired. The very thought of EA buying them out is very frightening. I guess EA has started putting out some decent games again these days, but still... I thought valve had principles, like Google, where the customer and quality come first and profits follow... EA has no such scruples. I don't want Valve to sell out to The Man... and has anyone ever used the EA downloader? *shudder* almost as clunky and invasive as QuickTime.
as an aside, I really like <a href="http://blog.gameshadow.com/" target="_blank">http://blog.gameshadow.com/</a> as a gaming blog, and I had never heard of it before =p
the long and the short of it is, Valve has said that they're not against being acquired. The very thought of EA buying them out is very frightening. I guess EA has started putting out some decent games again these days, but still... I thought valve had principles, like Google, where the customer and quality come first and profits follow... EA has no such scruples. I don't want Valve to sell out to The Man... and has anyone ever used the EA downloader? *shudder* almost as clunky and invasive as QuickTime.
as an aside, I really like <a href="http://blog.gameshadow.com/" target="_blank">http://blog.gameshadow.com/</a> as a gaming blog, and I had never heard of it before =p
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All I can say right now.
But unfortunately you cannot eat a solid gold cake <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" />
i hope they dont sell out <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" />
Last thing we need is hl3 being made by EA, what a disaster that would be. You'd get a new half life every year thats half done and buggy :/
As in, as much freedom as they have now, only they don't make 100% of the money(and thusly less liability).
Much like the Google/Yahoo! war.
Sometimes these things can be good... new features... actual bug fixes etc.
I for one have been against Steam from its inception but recently I've grown slightly fond of it. Its on all the time and I only use it for ZoS and NS. I for one think the 'community' aspect and features of Steam need to be reworked.
At least with C&C, EA has turned an incredibly awesome series into something... slightly better. Their online system seems to be very popular and their site features player matches and what not and a lot of players seem to be really excited about all of that. Westwood had this setup when they weren't bought by EA but it was very different and not as prioritized. Besides my dissapointment with the game itself, EA has done better than I expected them to with a game series that I loved since I first sat down and played.
With that sad, if Valve is indeed bought by EA, I don't believe their focus will be mis-placed entirely. They will most likely look at Valves current technology platform and use it to better their own systems (Valves systems seem to be a lot better than that of EA) and since they seemed to have recently shifted their attention to the idea of how a Community is essential for a truly brilliant game experience, I don't think they'll miss boat on that one.
As for the fear of releasing a half finished sequel to Half Life... if this buy goes ahead (which I really don't think it will anyways) then it will probably happen when Half Life has been finished. Most game series have an expected 'life' to them and after Episode 3, I don't think they'll be making another. Their best bet would be to create a new franchise that they can hook onto. We know they can make other great games (TF2, Portal) so there's no reason to believe they won't keep making great games.
Bottom line: EA buying Valve wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. If they were smart (which I think they are ((sometimes))) they wouldn't interfere a whole lot with Valves current affairs and software other than branding them differently and a slightly different direction.
The worst thing in the world would be Google being bought out by Microsoft. Not that its ever going to happen but, scary.
Thats my two cents at any rate.
I haven't heard of Maxis since I last played Sim Ant / Sim Hotel when I was younger.
Now, I fear for Valve.
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You're ######ing kidding me. The Sims? Spore? Jesus you're out of the loop.
And Gwahir, EA is a lot more changed of a company than people around here want to give them credit for. I understand everyone around here is about as anti-establishment as it gets, but EA deserves some credit for the stuff they've done in the past year.
I have not been impressed by EA in the past, but for the past few years... they have been really solid.
What other publisher would have given Spore such an atrocious development time? Have their games not been really good lately? I truly believe the day of Westwood, Bullfrog, Ultima Online fiasco is long gone.
And Gwahir, EA is a lot more changed of a company than people around here want to give them credit for. I understand everyone around here is about as anti-establishment as it gets, but EA deserves some credit for the stuff they've done in the past year.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Maybe he meant he hasn't heard the name Maxis. EA basically absorbed them and now instead of a Maxis game it's an EA game.
And frankly I don't care if Valve gets eaten by EA or whoever. DICE got eaten by EA and what'd we get? Mirror's Edge and Battlefield: Heroes. I'll take an innovative colorful first person parkour game written by Terry Pratchett's daughter over HL2: Episode 3 any day. Not that I don't love HL2, but still.
Now, I fear for Valve.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Sim Ant was the bomb <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" /> it was all downhill for Maxis after the days of Sim Ant and Sim Earth, if you ask me. Let's hope Spore redeems them.
As for EA, I will never forgive them for <a href="http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_14/87-The-Conquest-of-Origin" target="_blank">the conquest of Origin</a>.
I don't see what the Sims 2 has to do with anything, other than it was a bad game.
It's not really that hard to hold a grudge with EA's wrap sheet. A company that massive does not simply "change."
What exploit is that? The suspense is killing me.
But it has changed! They already apologized for killing off stuff like Origin and Bullfrog, they've given massive resources and development time to innovative developers like Will Wright, and they've greenlit strikingly original and risky products like Mirror's Edge, which is a game where you spend most of your time getting motion sick onto colors that haven't been in a next-gen game since the last generation, or Battlefield: Heroes, which EA gets to give away for free and where they hope to make money by selling digital moustaches.
<!--coloro:#000000--><span style="color:#000000"><!--/coloro-->On the subject at hand, then well, I just hope they don't actually want to be bought, or that it will happen. Despite EA perhaps redeeming themself in the past some time, then I still don't 'trust' them.<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc-->
Why would you change the color of your text? Do you realize that people view the forums with different themes and that in some of them, it is very difficult to read black text without highlighting it?
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*monocle*
well don't count your chickens before they hatch. These games haven't been released yet. EA still has plenty of time to rush Mirror's Edge out the door unfinished and half-assed, and BF: Heroes still has time to be a money grab with shallow gameplay as well.
Scud Bug. Drag select a scud-site that is being built, press q (hotkey for selecting all attacking units you own) then ctrl+left click (Force fire at ground). The scud site will fire immediately even if it's only 1% built. Cancel building after firing is done (getting full money back) start building another, rinse and repeat.
This isn't mentioning the laser-general laser turret trick (If you force fire one laser turret at another, the one being attacked will magically gain like 6x range and start randomly attacking enemy units) or the chinese nuke-cannon fast firing trick (Everytime the fire-rate of the cannon changes, be it from a speaker tower nearby or a promotion it will cause it to fire again. This can be easily abused if you have good micro skills and an overlord with speaker-tower upgrade).
Or if you play as america, you can use a microwave tank to force-fire on a supply drop that is being built, once the building is done and you move the microwave tank away. Once the building gains power back the air-drop plane will show up immediately, giving you 2500$ instantly instead of you having to wait the 1.5 minutes like normal.
Will these ever be fixed though? No.
...the millionth time. Why don't they let you SKIP IT?