How Gaben Took Over the World: The Story of Valve
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 มิ.ย. 2024
- Over the years, Valve has solidified itself as one of the pillars of modern esports and video games.
What started off as a game development operation, spearheaded by two former Microsoft employees, has grown into an immense conglomerate of games, esports tournaments, and digital content sales.
And yet despite all this, not much is known about the company.
But what has remained crystal clear throughout the years is that Valve is one of the most important, and lucrative, gaming companies in the world. This is its story.
Written by: Alina Sotula (@ASotula)
Edited By: Sebastien Martin-Schultz (@Seb_dot)
Narration by: Dimitri Pascaluta (@DPascaluta)
Courtesy List: pastebin.com/rRG2NRYx
Music used under license from Associated Production Music LLC (”APM”).
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No matter your issues with Valve just remember, if the market share on pc gaming wasn't controlled by valve, it could have been EA or Google. Things are not so bad.
EA could have done it, they released very good games on 2000's but missed direction.
Or worse epic.
I really should check out GOGs, itch, and others though.
atleast EA is better than Epic
@SkyWade but epic has issues with hackers so, ill rather give my info to EA
One time EA tried to buy valve, but they gor rejected
"Csgo is dying because it isn't being updated well"
Tf2 in the corner sucking the droplets of moisture off cosmetic holiday updates
especially since the source code leak....
I hope they give it some love. It's a fantastic game!
billy loman you’re so ducking right
Yeah but in contrast to Tf2 Csgo is relevant :p
@@mattvzs8640 It was always safe to play, source code leak didnt actually change anything in the game itself, people just panicked because thats what people do
There were literally over 1.1 million people online in cs:go yesterday. The game is far from dead.
Must have played in the library huh
The game is not dying, but non prime users are the ones who have the most frustration
Don’t say that because then it will die
@@jansmolenski-redzej4042 that's not how it works.
Sheer numbers aren't the end all be all of a games health.
Team fortress really is still fun. Queuing for casual takes one minute, low stakes low pressure.
Depends really mine usually takes less than 30 seconds but my longest queue was like 5 minutes
M. K I just wish they would update the game I love TF2 and I’ve tried to like valve but we haven’t gotten constant updates for 4 years honestly valve is a joke
M. K I love playing MvM. I can just blast bots as heavy, engine, scout or any other class and have fun, but I die a lot when I play stuff like casual(not bad at it, just ordinary). I have 100+ hours on TF2 and 90% of that is MvM. MvM queues take a couple of seconds and boom it is ready. I just really love it.
@@kingcotton659 all hope is gone now
true, from last month or two, i dropped all the games and am just playing tf2, never been happier and rage free.
*How Gaben Took Over the World:*
1. He went from Gaben to Lord Gaben
Still smaler than Big Gabe
All hail Lord Gaben
Now he is gaben the wise.
comment has 666 likes. My lord, we've been fooled! :O
Just like how Tiber Septim from the elder scrolls became a literal God
"Oh... It's you..... It's been a looong time..."
Not again... Portal 3 please..
It’s Portal “more than 2 and less than 4”.
@@poniko6034 portal Wheatley
Portal 3 why? Story ended gg
We don’t need a Portal 3, everyone’s arc in Portal has been finished, and we have enough Portal 2 mods and levels to satisfy any need of a “Portal 3”.
@@OssyFlawol
Lmao
'everyone's ar in Portal has been finished'
U clearly not understand the story of portal if u think like that
The man with a Valve on the back of his head always scared me as a child
its real, games too dumb
it scared everyone i think
The man with a Valve on his eye scares me more
“I fear no man but that thing.... it scares me”
and we were all terrified when the dude was about to fully turn his head for the first time in Portal 2
"User generated content"
*shows some random TF2 gmod video*
Ah yes, the embodiment of the Valve community.
Hey your a bottle
The old one that breaks?
IF YOUR NOT *loads vodka powerd p90*
Its actually sfm
Its actually both, SFM and Gmod combined. (Watch SFM Meets Gmod for the proof)
@@pyropruductions1693 *you're
BOTTLE GANG
When they mention only CS;GO as a dissapointment for updates and fixes. *cries in TF2*
ThatOneGermanGuy I mean if tf2 is still in Steam’s top 10 concurrent players I think it has been a huge success for the dev team even though they don’t update it anymore
It was and it still am...
@@tfk_-fm5br TF2 is only in top-10 because 80% of players are bots/idlers
@@masterman1502 they have banned loads of bots 2 years ago and it was like 15% of the player base
@@tfk_-fm5br That's exactly the point the game is still hugely popular even 10+ years after its release, yet Valve completely ignores it because it doesn't need attention to make money.
I love that Valve really does thinks of games as art, Gaben does a lot of things for the sake of games and he does try to shake the world with any and all his games
Not artifact though LUL, that was a cash grab game
Cough..... artifact cough...
@@118neihc Even Artifact the game is actually great. High production value, every card is voiced and interact with other (banter), the lore is great, and the game idea is cool. For Dota fan, that game is such a loregasm, and for card game lover, its the first time a card game is this polished.
But it fail on execution and Richard Garfield who doesn't listen to the community feedback long before the game release. I recomend watching the video "the death of Artifact" on why Richard Garfield is such a moron.
@@blushingralseiuwu2222 it's great to you, keep enjoying it (if you are still playing it, you have my respect). To me and others, it was a game to suck Dota2 fanboys' money out of their wallets, it's garbage and buying it, touching it never comes to our minds. Pretty much all Dota 2 fanboys who payed for Artifact regret now.
@@118neihc i did enjoy it, but the more I played there's a lot of gameplay balancing problem on that game.
What I'm trying to say is, Artifact is still a polished product with high production value, eventhough the execution is bad (thx Richard Garfield). Because holy shit, Artifact is so polished that its baffling. Can you imagine all cards is voiced? And its not even a single voice line, its multiple voice line with occasional banter when played or fighting other card. It trully is awesome for card game.
so basically
1. create a decent game
2. have lots of people play it
3. make it moddable
4. buy the rights to a good mod created by players
5. make it a different game
6. profit
take notes guys
James Games Bethesda could make some mighty good titles following that model.
Bethesda: Sorry can't read. Rather sell the mod itself.
Activision: That's ILLEGAL!
Nintendo: *Fuming*
yes but the first step is the hardest step
DayZ made Arma
they saw the potential and bought it. at least they didnt just take it lol, which they could've.
CSGO Players: "This game is dying because no updates"
Me, a Tf2 player: "First time?"
tf2 is like hell. real hell.
Underated
@@piratennn2720 yet we are still here
Chess players: *Thats cute.*
Meh
Gaben: You had more than two kills, and less than 4.
Me: The answer is three, and always three.
@Gustav and Theodor - Let's Plays and More! kid
Galaxy The Gamer What about 2.1? Or 2.01? Or 2.000000000000000000000000000001 maybe?
That can count, but I said "three" as if it's whole numbers.
Even you don't know what 3 is what is this???
Galaxy The Gamer
You mean 2+1 kills?
The moment Valve stops being privately owned, I'd just give up on life.
nice pfp
Half-Life 3 will be released before that happens.
Wheres day of defeat?
Fancy see you here
The man with a Valve on the back of his head always scared me as a child
As much as I would love to see a DoD2 on the source 2 engine, I doubt that will happen unless they can find a way to monetise it like they did with TF2/Dota 2 and CS: GO.
@@zonetrooper5 why couldn’t they monetize it ?
@@WVRLORD I mean in the sense that you can sell heroes for dota 2, skins for guns etc in CS:GO and hats for TF2.
How would they do the above for DoD2?
he gave me the best childhood and for that he’ll always have my respect
Same, L4D1 my first game that made me fall in love with gaming and with their company.
STEAMDECK ROOOOOOOOOCKS!!!!!
Love or hate valve. You cant change the fact that they made great games and two of the greatest E-Sports to date
Still find it funny when people think they "made" counter-strike. They improved a mod in the early 2000's, then released their own game, CS:S which is considered to be the worst, and then contracted Hidden Path to make CSGO which took 3 years after launch to blow up. Again, Dota was a mod that they later just developed and published a clone of the mod to say they "made" the game. Their single player games however, are quite good, no arguing that.
@@NorthHollywood had they never "chosen" those mods to help support them, who knows what could've happened
@@mlalbaitero They had no choice but to choose them because they were the most popular. Its not like they made some intelligent prediction that those mods would make great games....
@@walk898 The guy who made CS worked on Action Quake II, which is just CS in Quake 2 and that was in 1998. He was already planning on making CS but needed a good engine and decided to use HalfLifes engine. If HL wasnt created, CS would have still been made, just on a different engine.
key word made
Skinny gabe looks hot.
I mean......any Gabe looks hot to be honest.
He gonna sweat all the time.
If you think Valve is bad, think Steam like a junk sales yard with wood fence.
EA / Activision would be like a damn concentration camp
Don't forget bethesda...
concentration camps weren't that bad they had swimming pools...
@@remixmas they even provide multiple saunas to relax in...
@@remixmas Well, that is where people get shot.
@@Easy2take We don't talk about THEM anymore.
Valve's games are masterpieces especially the ones they've made from there bare hands and started from zero with like : Left4dead 1 & 2, Portal 1 & 2,Half life 1, 2, ep1 & ep2 and especially Team fortress 2 & 1.all of these games went through my whole life. I love and respect VALVE😔
Team fortress is originated as a mod for half life.
@@freezerXD29 TFC was a mod, but the characters and lore of TF2 was entirely made by valve, with only the class system being carried over from TFC. so technically TF2 is an original game, being a sequel because TFC existed.
@freezerXD29 so was CS
@@freezerXD29 the original team fortess mod was a mod for quake and came out 1996 2 years before half life 1
@@dabestike7159 i stand corrected but that time i made that comment, i didn't know
1:52 in flip flops seriously? Linus Sebastian must be proud
He's not wearing socks with em.
He is the Lord and Savior, of course he is wearing fli flops.
Duh
@@UnholyCamouflage exactly...Jesus don't wear socks...gaben is the reincarnated messiah...
bro walking in like jesus
literally just the intro made me happy as shit
He was thinking 20 years ahead. Imagine if HL Alyx relied on physical goods delivery, according to the legend, the entire Valve was against an online platform and Lord Gaben peers into the future and fulfills the prophecy
I feel like at this point we all know no matter what that Coldzera's Jumping AWP will apear at some point or another
And no one has a problem with that
Me: Three three three
Valve: Stop it! It scares him
Me: Three three three
Three does not exist
There's only "more than two and less than four"
It's all funny, until lord gaben eat's sombody
369
Gaben *loads a p90 from csgo modefyed to be vodka powered*
@heavy weapons guy bruh
i really love the gmod clips thats just randomly sprinkled around the video
every valve related documentary is not complete without them
So Basically: "How valve stole all my money during the holidays"
Late, but:
At least they did that “legally”.
Can we all just stop and appreciate that Gaben exist. Nobody is perfect and that imperfection is the room for improvement.
Gaben and Steam Summer Sale make me stop buy/download pirated game, i`m from 3rd world county and not rich, 1 new game can cost me 1/3 of my monthly allowance.
Bless my lord oh Gaben for saving me from the dark side.
Me too! STEAM games are much cheaper than pirated games that are being sold from the Mall.
Hail Lord Gaben my comrade
Same
steam sale and epic free games made me hold back on pirating,even if the devs of a game are Dbags,I still wouldn't see that as an incentive to start pirating.
@@mayman4255 I would prefer buying it from Steam then having an EGS account, even just for free games.
all the shit aside, i love this man for giving us csgo & dota2
my bad i love rust & tf2 too
Re- have you played half life and left 4 dead?
@@truehuntergamer2696 good games tbh.
Even with how infuriating csgo and dota 2 are, I’d still want them around
WHAT BOUT TF2
The most respected game company. Their game has changed a lot of people through mod, competitive gaming, and story telling. Thank you Valve ❤
Gabe Newell interviews are always a treat, he’s truly one of the greatest Video game developers in the history of the industry, the man is a genius, changed gaming forever 👏👏👏👏👏👏
please thescore esports, you should make a story of jerax, he's retiring from pro scene dota 2
RIP
@@BU-rf7jr Retiring, not dying
Kamrul Bari yes, RIP stand for retire in peacr
@@psychic_plays topson,ceb,ana,n0tail&fly, they all have their own stories, only jerax left
Ur wish has been granted.
Pray for our lord Gaben he's gonna live long enough to be the villain
and yes imma secure a comment before watching the vid like everyone else
nooooooooo
He is the dark knight
Indeed.
Bruh don't do that to god 😟😟😟
17:47. Dota 2 gets updated quite frequently simply because it has that one thing no other titles have, IceFrog.
Agree
Icefrog already worked like that since Dota Warcraft
Nah, Gaben just loves Dota and the money it produces
@@hellodanknessmyoldfriend6101 Dota 2 makes barely anything compared to the juggernaut that is Steam. Plus, Dota 2 only makes so much more than CS:GO, which Valve barely gives any attention to in comparison. Money is definitely not the reason why they simp for Dota 2 in particular.
@@zettour. I know that steam is Valve's primary cash cow, but my point still stands. Gaben plays dota almost everyday and it produces money with minimal effort.
Nakey Jakey.. Honestly I LOVE the editing style of this piece. Took me a minute to watch because I wanted to respect it. Love it.
He needs to wear tall-tees if he is going to keep raising his arms up like that
Lol yeah that's exactly what I thought immediately when I saw that
Sshhh low creature don't teach lord gaben he wears slippers to 25 million $ tournament you can never be on his level.
He doesn't care. He's Lord Gaben.
let his tum fly free bro dont fatshame GabeN
He has 4 bil net worth. He can buy your family
Ngl...the old valve intro just hit me like a truck. So nostalgic.
Also I guess I never really thought about the fact that pretty much every series of games they put out is considered a classic and one of the best in their respective categories.
Yet people want them to just release sequels that they don't want to work on and turn half life into the new cod.
Valve: the ultimate gaming villain
Activision Blizzard: hold my W3
@Ryan W found the china spy
2023: still millions of people everyday play. GOAT FPS
I never knew Left 4 Dead 3 had been officially cancelled, damn thats bad news. I really loved L4D1 & 2, would love for another :(
Welcome to Valve! XD
And why? The 2 is alredy perfect
In Valve nothing is ever cancelled, people just stop working on it. A new one might come out if they decide to revisit it at some point.
@@Captain1nsaneo
And the funny thing is
They always stop at 3
They should have made L4D2.5
the video we all've been waiting for
1:52 wears sandals....what a LEGEND
man this is such a good video! The intro gave me chills!
I remember playing some matches in Alien Swap just to get free TF2 hat
Niezidentyfikowana Komedia i don’t know how many years ago that was
The Orange box may have been the single best thing to ever happen to PC gaming. Can’t believe me and my brother just randomly got it for Christmas one year… almost certainly changed our lives
Excellent video! A good overview of the company with a few interesting insights.
At least one of the biggest corporations in the industry just sits around, doing nothing but monitoring and supporting steam and their own games. Valve can do a lot with their position in the market but they don’t
i love how when you said
"havoc of ingame economy"
you showed tf2
The toned down Valve intro music in the start of the video just gives me chills because i remember it playing infinite times when i started L4D2 in 2009
Actually wonderful video. Thanks for telling us about Valve's legacy
I genuinely laughed at the fact that TF2 was barely mentioned, yes it was shown in the visual aspect but the mention of the game or even referring to it by the narrators was less then 10 times, the game really deserves more notice, especially its e-sports, trust me when i say it's under appreciated.
How he took over the world and promptly forgot to count to 3
Lord can be number One, maybe a number Two…
but never, NEVER the Three.
the Intro was strangely beautiful
6:43 is the best part ever
whoever made this intro, you are a incredibly beautiful human
@Sebastien Martin-Schultz what was that tune that was used in the introduction?
@Sebastien Martin-Schultz Is there something like a full song or is it made just for this? I would love to hear the whole thing. Sounds beautiful
“Oh, it’s you…”
I want Portal 3, even if it means having ti deal with GLaDOS again!
you mean Portal More than 2 less than 4
Yeah ;(
I’m half expecting to see a “The story of thescore esports” sometime soon
If it wasn’t thanks to Gaben, we wouldn’t have some of the most iconic moments in all of esports. One of the greatest games of all time with Half-Life and Portal. Thank you Valve, thank you.
The intro was perfect, goosebumps all the way!
let's talk about these "refund scandals": we all clicked the "yes, i agree" knowing full well it says something in there about american vs local laws and owning the rights to our firstborn son's soul or some shit like that. The only reason these companies dont take the lawsuit to a higher court is because it is really, really bad PR.
i know it the word scandal gets you views and allowed you to build a proper good vs evil narrative, but this mindless shit has got to stop.
The usual wording is that Local Law > American Law, more commonly worded as "as far as the law is applicable in your local area" or "unless stated otherwise by local law" etc. The reason for this is usually because American law is only enforceable in... America. Countries such as the UK and Australia with Consumer Rights acts which grant legal requirements to provide refunds under circumstances would require businesses to localise their shopfronts.
Close your eyes for a second. And just imagine a world without steam, a world without half-life. You gotta appreciate what valve did over the years.
7:09 I very much appreciate you guys including Nakey Jakey in the video; more people need to know of him!
George Washington:“It is better to be alone than in bad company.”
Gaben:"I'm not wearing underwear" 3:28
I start playing CS 2 years ago and also first time using Steam
at the time i watch this i just finnish the Black Mesa Pump Station area, because i want to experience why Half life was so popular
and it is good
Haven't played any fps religiously since hl2
and now i have arrive at Xen
its beautifull bruh
was want to try the original HL in my library, now i wont
@@rotua98 You got to play the original to see why it's popular.
@@rotua98 The original is also great, if you don't have problem playing old games like N64 games, Half Life shouldn't be a problem.
Can i ask you what rank are you?
ngl that intro made me feel like being in a movie, i love valve
Let me point this out.
If gabe were ever to reveal half life 3, all he would have to do is raise three fingers and the crowd would go absolutely ballistic
yes, yes it would. but it would not be in our lifetimes
i like how the idea of the people working at valve being able to move freely between projects is literal, because all the desks are on wheels with like 3 cables strapping them down anywhere so they can just unplug and wheel their desk into another room and work there. i remember the story of a previous map maker on TF2, who had a half-completed map from early on, decided years down the line to wheel their desk into the office, finish it up, and leave
I'm a simple man: I see nakeyjakey, i like
my boy jakey? where?!
9:25 missed an opportunity to say the valve had been opened
The way they used valves actual intro music for their intro was so good
Valve: "dosen't update games"
Glitches and bugs: My time has come
17:47 "pretty much updates daily"
*OMEGALUL*
Hey guys, while your use of my video/voice discussing Valve's Refund policy is Fair Use, to not so much as cite the original creator or link the original video is bad form and rather rude.
EDIT: Apparently there is a nearly invisible citation that if one actively looks for it, they will eventually see. At the very least I would ask that you make such citations more clearly visible in the future.
They're not being rude at all. There's an entire fucking courtesy pastebin list in the description. And it has your credits. Go look at lines from 260 and below.
That intro made me cry, so emotional
Idk why the intro gave me chills
Valve means everything to me. Gabe is the G.O.A.T. shout out to all the valve crew working and all the people collaborating to this beautiful gaming culture. Keep it up. Stay healthy Gabe we f*cking need you
0:05 - 0:35
That background piano song gave more chill
any idea what it's called?
You didd a great job explaining this. It truly was great.
peace
Valve is the reason of how the game industry is today
The one game that comes to mind when I hear "Valve" is l4d
for me its half life and portal even tho i only play csgo
Left 4 Dead is weird compared to other Valve games since that seems to be one of Valves least favorite games? When they show stuff of their office you don't really see L4D stuff.
Also L4D was how I first learned about Valve. I didn't own the game but I played it with my friends a bit.
It sort of seems weird to me that there are groups of people that for some reason seem to think that L4D was the only good game that Valve made. It's as if they have never played any of the other stuff Valve made.
@@PC-tan Probably because it was mostly made by Turtle Rock Studios.
My first game was tf2, it was a fun game, people were so nice.
It's not originally made by Valve, it's Turtle Rock studios game
Thank you for this video!
every time I hear that Valve intro I get chills
"Valve makes games because they think that that game is going to change everything"
- *Artifact* : .....
I heard they are fixing that game and will make it free
IMO they probably did think it would change everything, but being humans like everyone else, they thought wrong.
LMAO Summit needs to tell us how he really feels.... 0:42
the intro gave me goosebumps btw on headphones
When the steam servers are down
Just day before
When rl is down
0:12 this is what my chords connected to my pc looks like
Chord
this video has amazing editing ngl
its nice that alyx recaptured the valve magic
4:37 How did Steam flounder back then? I remember having it on my PC ever since it came out and it was never offline, except for you know, random downtimes like with any internet-based company. It was used mainly to find servers for Counter Strike 1.5 and 1.6, especially via LAN. I am trying hard to recall it ever floundering, because it was literally just that, a hub for server searches and it never tried to be anything more than that, UNTIL the full Steam we all know today was eventually released, but up until that point, Steam performed its role perfectly; everyone I knew was playing CS and using Steam.
I've been theorizing lately that if EA hadn't gone retarded on C&C, they might have taken the PC gaming market by storm. But alas, Valve succeeded through Half-Life 2 and the rest is history. Imagine EA monopolizes the whole PC gaming industry. Oh my.
I still want an updated version of Day of Defeat just like CS got CSGO.
Same dude.
Day of Defeat where they add the Japanese,Italians,Chinese and Russians.
Steam revolutionized the gaming concept in a way USA and Europe could not even imagine. At least Im asuming that, since i've not seen it mentioned in the video. For me, being from South America, getting games was extremeley hard during pre-steam era: they were simply non existant, and if they did exist, they were extremely expensive. Let alone gaming consoles and a proper gamer PC.
Piracy was the only option.
Steam allowed me to finally get ALL the games of my favorite franchise (Total War games, and yes; I own everyone of them); and I am now writing this comment with my Steam Library showing my proudly owned 76 (no Fallout pun intended) game library, and more than 3000 hours on DotA 2.
You made a former child happy for many years, and make an actual adult happy everyday.
Thank you, forever.
Harry my boy! Getting the starter in the first clip!
Gaben in every TI
Gaben : HandsUp welcome to the International
Twitch chat : HandsUp spam
i dont see why people shit on companies for doing things to make money like its literally a buisness. That does not mean they dont give a fuck about the community, i guarentee 90% of people at valve are proud of the games and are happy that the community likes them
1:29 ahhhh that classic sound when starting up a game like tf2 or l4d2
@DocWalter actually idk i havent played in a while. Reasons is because i played as much l4d2 as i could to get bored of it and tf2 i played as a kid so i didnt play much competitively i played community servers for fun. So i never bothered to play again but if it is then that's great.
That intro was unexpectedly hype
We need the story of jerax... He even had retire
Can we get an F for team fortress 2?
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TF2 is not dead, it still has an active userbase and even more active content creators. Though I'm starting to think that Valve hates TF2. I wish we had it like CS:GO. Valve neglects TF2, yet they owe a good portion of their success to it.
@@wilsonsticks TF2 is not dead but it is in "maintenance mode" AKA life support. It's no longer speculation we actually know nobody is working on any TF2 updates, there are none planned, and we will never see the heavy reworking he so desperately needs. I play several times a week, and I still love it, but the player count will only decline from here. Even if it's a slow process. Very sad.
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