Why is Valve SO successful despite being unwilling, or unable to hire people that properly reflect the world around it?
Why is Valve SO successful despite being unwilling, or unable to hire people that properly reflect the world around it?
Why is Valve SO successful despite being unwilling, or unable to hire people that properly reflect the world around it?
Diversity equals strength
Why is big tech laying off all of its strength then?
Why do people equate different skin color to diverse ideas?
because they are moronic progressive trash that are incredibly easy to manipulate against the long term interest of their line, as well as their society.
like piss in a pool, once the damage is done, you can't take it back -- and by the time they realize this it'll be far too late.
because thinking differently is illegal, even if youre black.
Diversity in appearance is more important that diversity of ideas, chud
Her only mistake was thinking they wouldn't eat her alive for that because she's a black woman.
>ideas
Who ever told you that? Different skin color is the end goal, it doesn't go beyond that.
Then you can fire them all in a huge mass firing and call it "downsizing" then a few months later hire 5000+ people of color.
ideas?
You come up with an idea. They come up with the idea that it was them who came up with that idea. You now have two ideas. Diversity works.
They don't, "diversity of ideas" is just a combination of meaningless weasel words to justify anti-white hiring practices
>anti-white hiring practices
lol
lmao, even
do all of you just have a massive victim complex? the world is so cruel and unfair and it's all because of brown people? if only you were born black?
shalom
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Is the classic "it's not happening but it's a good thing that it's happening"?
u dumb gay homies baka
It's definitely real and is framed as "countering systemic oppression". It's not theft to steal your car back from a thief, so the logic goes.
Valve makes their money from microtransactions and virtual landlording. Ancestry doesn't really matter when it comes to those kinds of businesses.
anti-white is code for pro-america
They dont
its not about diverse ideas. Part of why we have more domestic terrorism is because Nazi's and Progressives are just 2 sides of the coin called "Race based ideology"
Party of why we stopped using Race as the basis for value is because its a really.. really bad idea. Like it hasnt succeeded anywhere. Ever. but it feels new and fresh and they use flowery language so here we go again.
A chain with links made of various metals would be weak.
T. Chinese saboteur.
The whole point of that video is complaining that Valve is 95% white and male.
>Not a single poop-colored person in sight
soul
Quite literally two on the left side
theres one
Ahh, that's just Steve the Janitor.
there's literally a Black person right there, you double Black person
Gaben is simply based.
He fricking kneeled.
>unwilling, or unable
MORPHINE ADMINISTERED
I think they are hiring people that properly reflect high trust, successful parts of the world.
but by all means hire people that remind you of Minneapolis, summer of 2020 and see what you get
>spoiler: it's forspoken mixed with nu-WoW
Leeching as the middleman never required much talent. Ancients merchants knew this.
What?
around the time hl2 episode 2 came out there was a documentary style video about valve's 'snack bar' being the best in the industry. hot pockets, twinkies, sodas, and famously the 'big pink cookie', favourite of erik wolpaw who would slowly eat it over the course of a week.
these things have enough sugar and calories to last you the whole day
Legend has it, a group of scientists hired by Valve were able to make a direct correlation between the size of the cookie and the diameter of Gaben, reducing the cookie by 3% also reduced Gaben by the same amount
Valve doesn't even have the big pink cookies anymore.
Because they're unwilling, or unable to hire people that properly reflect the world around it. And gaben stamps it out when he sees it cropping up amongst his ranks.
Because all they need are engineers. No shit its just dudes who know how to code.
I don’t understand how a flat company hierarchy can work, it makes no sense to me at all. Does Valve even hire people anymore? I would think most of them got in there back when they were a small company.
Valve hires people all the time but they are extremely picky with who they hire and they don't always stick around even if they do get picked. It's a company where you basically have to be motivated all the time to do things rather than the company motivating you.
Basically you group with people and can work and projects as you see fit. You and some other guys want to work on a game or feature, so you group up and do it
There's an expose out there that says there's a hidden hierarchy, as you would expect
I'd argue it doesn't work considering they only release a game every decade and spend millions on failed projects
But moving desks!!
seriously wondering why they don't axe 95% of their staff, keeping just enough on to keep the money printer (steam's storefront) working
and then spin off the IP for their 'games' so at least someone can work on them.
oh wait, they're a private company so some ~~*activist shareholder*~~ can't strong arm them into subverting their longterm interest over extremely (1 quarter or so) profits.
see also
>spaceX
Obviously because Gabe Newell and the other senior people (like Robin Walker) clearly like being a gaming skunkworks where the definition of success and failure isn't as clear cut as numbers on a balance sheet
If Gabe's goal was just to make money, he wouldve taken Valve public a decade ago
Having loads of people working on all sorts of experimental projects is all well and good, but none of those cool innovative titles will ever see the light of day if there isn't someone at the top cracking the whip to keep people working on it.
That was back in 2019 lmao. A few years later and they STILL haven't done it.
What kind of name is "Coomer"?
Anglo
It's not that weird if you stop thinking in memes.
He's been there since the beginning
I just laughed so hard at "coomer" goddamn this place rots your brain
Seems like it works to me
Yeah but they could easily get rid 95% and be even more profitable. They make money selling other peoples shit. Not their own.
valve doesn't do the whole 'work on what you want' anymore, hl alyx after hours mentions this
>you choose what you want to work on
>the higher-ups use bonuses to motivate people to do certain things and be productive
>stack ranking done by everyone voting
lol even in the video they try to do it by bringing up the 30% cut as if it's not the standard that every digital store uses.
>i like [thing] because [superficial, incendiary reason]
>5 minutes into the video
>"Black lives matter"
>exit video
>properly reflect THE world
>op just wants to reflect THEIR world
Mark my words, we will destroy Valve if they don't diversify and start publicly supporting the cause. We will release an endless drip-feed of negative articles and videos and tweets about them until the social pressure becomes unbearable and they're forced to bend to our will. They will not get away with this.
They're a billion dollar company with a monopoly on pc game sales. I don't think you can bully them.
>monopoly
Anon stop using that word when you dont know what it means, and stop ignoring that GoG, Ubisoft store, EGS exist.
Steam is simply the best place to get games with the best storefront, policies and functionality
a "monopoly" would stop any of its competition from existing
You don't need 100% of a marketshare to be a monopoly. Microsoft was considered a monopoly and was sued by the US Government for such despite Mac and Linux existing. It's a famous case.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp.
Maybe you should stop using words if you don't know what they mean.
Do you want to read your wiki links properly before you put them on Ganker? They didnt sue microsoft because they exist, they sued them because they made it almost impossible to remove microsoft products from their systems. Its literally in the first paragraph you stupid fricking Black person.
Steam doesnt do any of that, you are not punished in ANY way by getting a game on a different store platform at all. Hell steam even has ways to add non steam games so it still shows youre playing it despite it not being on steam so you dont lose as much functionality
>Courts do not require a literal monopoly before applying rules for single firm conduct; that term is used as shorthand for a firm with significant and durable market power — that is, the long term ability to raise price or exclude competitors.
https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/guide-antitrust-laws/single-firm-conduct/monopolization-defined
Checkmate bucko.
>exclude competitors
name a single thing steam does to exclude competitors
They don't allow me to move my steam game library to another service so buying games on other services is disincentivized. I can't abandon steam without losing tens of thousands of dollars in games.
This is such a moronic argument that its going to get this webm and nothing more.
ohnonono chudbros
You're on a pc, not a console. You can use whatever storefront you want and have however many launchers you want all on your pc at the same time.
They didn't stop GOG from making GOG Connect, and weren't the ones who made the decision to retire it.
they don't (yet), and that's the only reason they haven't been barked at by the FTC.
notice epic went after *Apple* for anti-trust, not valve -- Apple. Despite steam being a far juicier target relative to their interests.
if valve was owned by a collection of shareholders trying to maximize their ROI, you can bet your sweet dicky they'd start pulling shady shit to flex that monopoly power.
>(yet)
that's a key word and until something happens it means none of this matters
They went after Apple specifically because Apple doesn't allow any other competing storefronts on their hardware
Meanwhile you can put Epic and GOG on your Steam Deck in like 5 minutes
that's pretty much my point. despite being able to act in a petty, anti-consumer way in order to raise revenue -- they don't
and as such, despite being a monopoly, they get a pass from regulators.
You have to put it in every field friend
>lots of games only available on steam
>doesn't force exclusives
call me when I can buy Half Life 2 on EGS
call me when I can buy Gran Turismo 7 on PSN and play it natively on my steamdeck
yeah, the name field persists from session to session where the other fields don't
>call me when I can buy Gran Turismo 7 on PSN and play it natively on my steamdeck
disingenuous comparison and YOU KNOW IT
It's not on EGS but here it is on another storefront, dipshit
https://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/store/the-orange-box/bshpn3sz2tb4
>literally wont' allow you to buy it on that "storefront"
anon...
yeah, you can't order Half Life 2 at Mcdonalds, either. that doesn't make it a monopoly
>post a link saying it's available on other platforms
>it isnt' available via that link
>somehow this is my problem and not you being a dumbass
it literally is you turbo autist, you just need to be signed in
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nvidia.valvesoftware.halflife2
does the grocery store have to carry every brand of bread?
No but if my favorite kind was only available at one grocery store then I would consider that to be exclusive.
Exclusive + high market share = Monopoly
>shield only
>no windows
WOW
>Exclusive
Very odd way of wording that for something like PC gaming. There hundreds, if not thousands of games that are only available on steam due to the steam greenlighting process (now steam direct), yes they are "exclusives", but they gave some games a chance they would literally never get anywhere else.
The only "exclusive" on steam that is entirely at the will of valve is their own games (and even some are on consoles too) but thats like complaining Two competing chefs dont use their rivals recipes
There is zero reason for devs not to opt into multiple store fronts. In fact many do, by going with EGS as an exclusivity deal then going to steam after, or going on both at the same time.
Dont blame steam because other storefronts are so shit that devs dont want their games on there.
Right after I can play Fortnite on steam :^)
>exclude competitors.
Tell me how steam is somehow excluding competitors? Especially when EGS literally rose from nothing (yes I know its failing, but thats mostly because its shit and steam is superior, not because of any choking by Valve)
I find it hilarious that youre using a defition that is explaining a monopoly equates to high market power, being able to push anyone else out of the market, when its simply not even true of Valve, who give zero shits about EGS giving massively favourable deals to devs
Valve won't ever be confronted as a monopoly because they don't force exclusivity agreements on anybody. Even many Valve developed games are available on other digital store fronts.
On top of that Valve doesn't force you to use Steam even on their own hardware (the Steam Deck), which is even one step further than the big three console manufacturers go.
Valve is just dominating the market because it's an extremely polished platform whereas EGS and other PC storefronts are not.
steam is definitely a monopoly in the sense they are able to exert market power.
it's one of the rare situations where they haven't been completely anti-consumer.
probably because it's still private.
corps that have to answer to shareholders invariably go down the brutal as all frick mantra of
>never leave money on the table
and that's when it truly becomes a problem.
the other storefronts you mentioned do a fraction of the volume and have comparably limited games for sale. the MS example is apropos though, DOJ got on their ass over bundling IE and locking out other browser makers in the 90's; macOS, unix/linux existed, but didn't have enough market share for apple or gnu to exert any kind of anti-consumer/anti competitive pressure.
> the MS example is apropos though, DOJ got on their ass over bundling IE and locking out other browser makers in the 90's;
I always thought that was weird. They didn't lock out anything. I used windows and netscape, it worked just fine. On a new clean install you had to endure IE only for as long as it took to download another browser.
Actually the current situation where windows insists on putting a shortcut to Edge on the desktop every time it updates is much worse.
Console port sales* sweetie
Not even epic was able to scratch them, thats why every fkn publisher now crawls back to steam, lol.
>a scrawny pants-shitting cuck with thick glasses and a 230 lb wife thinks he can bully a multi billion dollar company
at least 85% of the men there have a vasectomy
Valve is a high-trust, post-scarcity society (because of Steam infinite money)
How does it feel knowing that the Steam Deck was created without the single input of an African American during the R&D process?
The Steam Deck is literally a wh*te man's hardware.
Alright fellas you can stop the long winded replies.
I was playing devil's advocate.
Have a good nice.
jokes on you, it's literally just me on you in this thread and I was baiting you the whole time
>long winded
>not a single reply ITT over 4 sentences
fricking kek dude.
have a nice day
Because they have a near monopoly on PC vidya and literally don't need to do anything except keep the servers working.
Reminder that while Steam isn't a monopoly on PC, the Playstation and Xbox stores are monopolies on their respective systems.
please stop
Don't forget Nintendo.
Of course, all consoles have store monopolies, which is why it's so moronic that you only hear this argument about the only platform that's open.
Because they hire based on skill and not whether they have brown skin, a woman or a gay/troony just to meet superficial work place quotas
Valve are known scammers who commit false advertising and fraud and deserve to be prosecuted by the Federal Trade Commission.
Valve screwed over the Artifact fanbase by cancelling the Artifact 2.0 beta without even allowing users to invite friends like they said they would in January 2021 and does not deserve your financial support for these gross consumer-unfriendly practices.
steamies... this isn't a good look
the video he made is also extremely white and male
wtf? i hope someone kills him for this
Why dont these people complain that Fromsoft is extremely Japanese and extremely male?
I tuned out after the BLM shit.
I'm just getting angry at this and I'm not even american. What a fricking trash piece of propaganda. I'm sure it'll convince a lot of zoomers this homosexual is right.
... which means?
they never get that far, do they? it's always a meek "uuh diversity is good... because... different experiences..." which is its own can of worms if you care to open it
the problem is no one with a brain wants to fight in this mud pit, so they go unchecked
it's all so tiresome
I hate being wh*te and m*le!
How can homosexuals like this live with themselves for being white and male?
Parasites aren't successful.
If any company thinks it's acceptable to look like this after George Floyd's death - think again. How can you think it's ok to run your company like this after seeing a black man get kneeled on for 9 minutes straight?
and after that every YT kneeled to their Black-gods in deep shame and remorse
It's not a publicly traded company that's why
that almost looks like the abatukam room
Has anyone that complains about non-white has ever talked to a non-white? I was in a startup just for the money and had to endure some of the most moronic people and every single one of their "different idea", that was just some random shit from where they came from or their race culture, and everyone else was supposed to be happy for them because of it, and they always wanted to stick their shitty ideas to our product and since everyone always agreed, we had to, even if it didn't made any sense to have it, they said it would be "more friendly" or other buzzword
Valve built a money printer with Steam so they don't really have to give many fricks. I imagine the day to day for most employees is performative larping.
But they do hire smart people and basically let them do what they want. Eventually you get good ideas bubble up when you have that environment.
If you actually review their game releases, Valve's track record is not so great. But the winners overwhelmingly make up for the losers so in people's perception it seems like they have this perfect track record.
At this point there basically isn't a game Valve could make that would make more money than Steam, so their games are mostly investments to set industry trends and chart out a path for other developers to follow in. HL:Alyx is a good example, it wasn't a huge financial success, but they used it to try to push VR forward.
all i got from watching this video was "muh george floyd"
In March 2018, Gabe Newell held a presentation on Artifact claiming there would be regular expansions, an eventual mobile release, and a $1 million tournament, all of which ultimately failed to materialize.
In August of that year, Gabe Newell repeated the claim of an Artifact tournament during the opening of The International: https://youtube.com/watch?v=X4xYOmUwad0
On March 30, 2020, Valve announced Artifact Beta 2.0, stating they planned for a closed beta (which happened), transitioning to an open beta and later full release (which didn’t).
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/583950/view/2102558993190369210
On December 17, 2020, Valve stated they would allow users to invite friends to the Artifact 2.0 beta in January.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1269260/view/2951510987408670526
On March 4, 2021, Valve formally abandoned Artifact. No expansions, no mobile version, no million-dollar tournament, not even something as basic as allowing users to invite friends to the beta like they said they would.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/583950/view/3047218819080842820
Because black people are trash?
>Watch video
>Mostly the author crying Valve never made a statement about BLM
lol
lmao
>million billion trillion dollar company
>can't even afford chairs for everybody at meeting time
>Valve literally hands out ten thousand dollars each to over 300 of their employees so that they can give it to any charity they want
>NOOOOOOOOOOO YOU HAVE TO TWEET ABOUT BLM
Literally why?
Why are these people like this?
its hush money you stupid chud
valve gave money to their employees so that they would shut up about blm
shows how insanely mired in apathetic lolbertarian sensibilities gaben is