@@GenerationZero18 maybe not graphics, but damn. No game even now in 2022 has the insane physics system Half Life 2 had. You'd figure as technology evolved physics in games would be times better than Half Life 2's but that never happened. Only game i can think of is BoneLab, tho it only works in VR
What Gabe has described here also explains the rise of music piracy that occurred in America back in the late 90s and early 2000s. With the rise of MP3 players around this time there was an increased desire among consumers to get music electronically as opposed to buying physical media. The record industry took to attacking Napster and others instead of filling the void themselves by allowing people to pay for and buy legit MP3s online via their own companies.
This. Spotify has made a big dent in music piracy because it actually has a good service. It will never abolish the problem but since all the music I want is so easily available to me right now with a cheap price and I can play it on every device (phone, tablet, PC, TV with speakers, and car even without internet), I don't see a need to take the effort and risk to Yar har. Gabe is right that accessibility is king.
@@marcopeterson805 I see both sides like Chanel. Yes it'd be more freeing to download all the music you want for yourself and put it on your phone/mp3, especially for artists that aren't on Spotify. Spotify does make it very accessible though and dare I say fun to use, the features it provides like discovering new music or jamming out with a friend group at a party makes it much more inviting to use especially when you can't share your mp3 files and can just queue up any song at any given moment when you're in a session with your friends. I've done both, I just put my local mp3 files on my Spotify playlists and remain a happy camper 🎉 🎧🎶
He definitely can't count to 3 as he can't give us all Half Life 3. I'm grateful for what we got with HL and all it's mods and I understand if he's moved on from a third game.
Gabe is a very smart man. I remember at first how crappy steam was, but its grown into a great platform over the years. The fact that I always have my games on any PC I can access steam is wonderful. No more lost disks, no more serial number hunting. Everything is great and I think that plays a large role as to why Valve isn't stressed about pirating
Indeed Infact I often wish the Gaming and Infotech industries had more people as smart as Gabe Newel himself including game developer companies too that way games can be developed much sparter with Gabe Newel's knowledge hell We could even have the best operating systems and computers built and made faster and more amazingly advaced too with this mans knowledged and smarts too.
@@FLAME4564because investors want return NOW or they legally sue company for not making money NOW. While Valve has no investors which means they can do whatever they want. Their vision was to be sustainable long term and look where it got them
It's the truth. I was planning on pirating System Shock 2, I downloaded the torrent, couldn't be bothered to spend time trying to find the right DirectX package to run it. The other day it shows up on Steam for $10, I grabbed it right away.
Russian here btw. I remember that my first licensed game was the result of me wanting to get into creating levels for half-life. I went to the store to buy a half-life game, and the seller just so happened to have a licensed half-life 2 episode 1 which was a new game that I didn't know about at the time. So I bought it, and since then I started playing licensed games, and more and more of them were integrated into Steam with time. Steam was the reason why I started to buy licensed games. I still have my Orange Box and Portal 2 with that holographic picture standing on the shelf. And how did Valve try to sell the very first "collector's edition" in Russia? They used very cheap dvd boxes with cheap paper, but sold 5 licensed games on one DVD for 650 rubles, which was a price of eating well at McDonalds 2-3 times at the time. And then, fortnite game store shitstorm happened a few years ago, and piracy for videogames in Russia suddenly became relevant again.
It absolutely blows my mind that in the same industry we can have a great guy like Gabe Newell, who cares about his customers just as much as the product and wants to make sure they're happy, and Bobby Kotick, a guy who looks at all of his customers and just sees dollar signs and criminals and has on several occasions stated how he wants to basically ruin the gaming industry. Thank god for Gabe.
Great interview. He's right about some piracy happening due to game companies mistreating customers and considering certain countries as something that consists only of thieves.
@@cliffturbo2146 mistreating isn't the right word so much as forgetting. To fight piracy on a platform they made any legitimate means of getting their game for that platform or in that region nonexistant, so people turned to piracy just to have access to games.
it's so true, not just to videogames but TV as well, take a show called "The Expanse" literrally impossible to watch LEGALLY outside the US/canada until over 6 months after a season ends for it to turn up on netflix, so you have a show you want to watch and that your willing to pay for but can't because the only way to watch it is through piracy, and this quote suddenly resonated with me about piracy being a service problem rather than just people being unwilling to pay for something
Honestly, the more i watched this, the more i beginning to think Nintendo is blind on why their games getting emulated or roms of their games exist They think, its the people who caused the problem but in reality, its their fault for not giving availability (bad service)
i fucking love Gabe. if i ever met him i would give him the biggest, greatest hug ever. he understands exactly what PC gamers want and goes above and beyond to provide it did i mention i fucking love Gabe? because i do :D
so true on russian piracy. not only we usually have to wait couple months before game comes out and then it's usually translated worse than fan or pirate translation which were made much earlier.
What he said about piracy still lives up today. It is still a service problem and not a pricing one. Okay, let's say there's a way to get the game for free. Yes, they got the game for free. But did they get the platform's and creators' "Thank You" service for buying their game? Definitely not. What I mean by a "Thank You" service are the achievements, freebies, and Steam Levels for buying a certain game online. They are very appealing and give you challenges of what to do so that you can enjoy the games you buy. You can add this on your page like a figurine collection. Heck, you can show this to your friends as your proof for finishing a game and show yourself as an avid enjoyer. Another thing that piracy can't apply are multiplayer and online forum services for registered buyers of a game. This may mean nothing for singleplayer gamers as it is very subtle, but the point being that you won't have access through its community via the Steam page. Buyers can have a sense of fulfillment and enjoying a whole game to its core if you buy that game with the right service, and Steam's services really excels in that category. As someone who pirates games a lot, these are the things I never got to experience that I wish I really could.
He's such an intelligent person. Having a company like valve where intelligent developers are all able to put their minds together and make such beloved games makes me happy.
i wish to give gabeN a hug and a pat on the back. i listened to the entire video and now i feel all warm inside. to think that someone behind such a big company actually cares on this level for his customers is heartwarming to say the least :D
Gabe was right. Just yesterday, I wanted to play a childhood game of mine, 20+ years old. I hoppend on Steam and bought it for 10 quids, and it runs. If Steam would not have provided the game, I would have searched for it elsewhere
The man speaks so much truth, i regular buy stuff on steam for this reason. The only downside with this is the "offline mode", i think the guys at valve really need to rethink that one. sometimes i can't even start source SDK, because my school blocked steam connections
For everyone who makes a Gabe is Fat/Delay episode 3 joke... NEVER forget: THIS is the true face of your jokes; the face of Gaben. Doesn't mean you can't make jokes, just don't actually think he's stupid.
1:38 He was talking about $2000 PCs back in 2009. Imagine if he did this interview today with today's inflation and especially with today's overpriced components. He will probably say something like $5000.
he would be talking about prebuilt PCs if it was talking about 5'000 dollars today, because a 2'000 dollar custom PC could still give out the equivalent, except the lack of software optimisation.
Thats why I ONLY play rockstar games on Xbox, i refuse to download their stupid launcher. Id rather play their games in an inferior way, than to use their stupid launcher..@@orlandofurioso7329 And on top of that, I ONLY buy them used, so rockstar doesnt get any of my money. lol.
I had literally pay for games after pirating and fully completing them beforehand simply because I ended up wanting to support the devs and it was faster to get updates from the source instead of possibly waiting a week for a pirate site to update depending on the case. In an era where demos are seen as pointless it not really a surprise remorse buys also increase. Games I "gotten for free" otherwise I often time don't even play more than a hour. With Steam refund policy it is less of a thing I do nowadays but depending on the game 2 hours might not be enough time and I find myself giving me a personal demo first. I'm sure a ton of people pirate without the intention of buying whatsoever but I'm just adding some people pirate but have the willingness and funds to buy the game but don't want to be stuck with what is basically a Steam scar claiming to be a game. Stuff like Bad Rats can get away with it being only cents on a dollar but AAA slop wanting 70 dollars not counting day one dlcs and special edition bullshit, I can't afford trusting the company have my best interest in mind when they put more time and effort into marketing than the game itself.
it was the same with music. I used to pirate albums constantly when I was younger. Now I just pay my monthly YT premium or whatever, and I just...don't think about it anymore, got that music problem solved. Looking for seeds and files doesn't even feel worth the effort to me now.
intellectual property never should protect any services/products stating that they can revoke their services/rights to use provided at any time consumers initially legally paid for. especially for piracy cases where someone rips out a service and uses it without affecting the official ones.
Goddamn, Gabe, it felt like listening to a mirror image. You're brilliant! Truly one of the very few big people in the gaming industry who are truly admirable.
Somebody please teach this lesson to the CEO of Ubisoft. Maybe the reason that everyone pirates your games on PC is because your service is worse than hemeroids. I would rather bleed out of my ass than use Uplay ever again. I pay for your games but playing them makes me wish for a pirated version that doesnt stop me from playing the game every 2 mins to reconnect me to your crappy servers in a singleplayer experience (Splinter Cell: Conviction).
gabe is a real bro. he is the guy that does his job because its fun and he likes others to have fun with it too. he thinks of the future with his community financial thing which is great in my eyes. i would happily invest 200€ to remake games like jagged alliance but not in the way big companies would redo them but in the way the community loves and wants the game. bobby kotick on the other hand seems like his evil twinbrother from bizarroworld.
@DanteForever20XX hmm interesting. I have decent internet, but we were having problems with it, I never actually unplugged it. That is a possibility. I will experiment with it, thanks for the advice.
The more exercise Gabe does over the course of the development cycle for any one of his games, the less time he actually gets to spend improving the game. If Episode 3 comes out and he's twice the size as he is in this video, it's going to be fucking KICK-ASS.
I really, really want to work for Valve. Theyre the only company I have ever seen when it comes to video games that isnt a greedy cash cow. AND their games are awesome.
@Alimus13 I agree, except I think the dialogue in Mass Effect 2 was better than Mass Effect 1 in most parts. What game developed by bioware do you think is the turning point for new Bioware?
I've got two bachelor's degrees, and I feel like cheating in school is the same way. If the teacher's had course layouts with material deliveries that made students who wanted to do things the right way have a fighting chance to, cheating would be eliminated.
Ahoy ye fellow Playstation users! It seems the "Great" Sony Empire has abandoned us to the briney depths, leavin' us with no place to spend our coin, no aid for our download problems, no reward for our brand loyalty, as we call out to them in our darkest time of need...This be a new age lads! An age of uncertainty. An age of discovery! May yer bounties be plentiful and yer bans be none. Set sail lads, for game preservation island! Yarheharharhar!!! ☠️
Actually you can play a lot of steam games launching them directly from their directories. DRM in steam is a choice of the publisher, not Valve. Also, you can always play any game on steam in offline mode if your internet connection dies.
haha Right on :). Hell people in busnisess like Nintendo, Microsoft and mabey even Apple could also learn alot from this man and be inspired to improve a lot from him.
It's not just about localization, but also companies getting greedy and stack more price and call it "exclusive" while it's easier to just pirate it and save your money to buy some snacks that will last for a week or less while enjoying the game. But nowadays, there are more countermeasures of piracy such as denuvo, or client that makes you play while staying online. There are only two ways I can see where the future of gaming is going; Pressing forward for free to play games with microtransactions, or go back to the old, dated, and polished games. Companies like Activision is getting more of a killjoy than a smile on a face. They treat gamers like some sons of corporate CEOs with endless flow of cash. Gaming is slowly dying, but it still can be saved by following the steps of From Software's examples.
@snipermagoo Apologies, I didn't mean to make it sound like that. Of course, I don't deny that doing simple things such as reducing price or increasing the accessability of a game will reduce piracy. I merely think that there are certain individuals who will pirate games and other stuff no matter what the situation, as it is simply cheaper.
This video explains why people pirate and it's not just games, it's movies, and music. And it's most likely to do with too many exclusives and the prices are too high.
He is good! I downloaded a pirated version of GMOD to test it and when I tried it I thought it was fun and I bought the game. I've done like that many times :P
He's the biggest legend. He doesn't blame people for pirating, he puts the problem on himself...
fun fact when i saw this video i started crying and stoped pirating forever but only valve games ;)
Gabe is the embodiment of Extreme Ownership. That is why he is so successful.
@@LiquidToast12and yet you dont own anything on Steam
@@GewelReal Yep, that's why I'm almost no buy games
which is a valid fucking point.
When a Gabe dies, we will all lose a great man that made this world a better place, in a ways even he will fail to realize :(
+D3w10n and what's that?
He's one of the smartest people on this planet and he doesn't have that many interviews.
@@BigBrosFilms You right,He make Half life 2 on 2004 and the graphic is better than Cyberpunk 2077 too :)
tf2 Heavy Update when?
Gabe - "Soon"
@@GenerationZero18 maybe not graphics, but damn. No game even now in 2022 has the insane physics system Half Life 2 had. You'd figure as technology evolved physics in games would be times better than Half Life 2's but that never happened. Only game i can think of is BoneLab, tho it only works in VR
Piracy is a service problem not a pricing problem - Gabe Newell
"Your best investors are your customers."
Wow I wish more businesses embraced that.
dang man if we heard that these days it would be "controversial" and outlandish to dare say that in public lol
What Gabe has described here also explains the rise of music piracy that occurred in America back in the late 90s and early 2000s. With the rise of MP3 players around this time there was an increased desire among consumers to get music electronically as opposed to buying physical media. The record industry took to attacking Napster and others instead of filling the void themselves by allowing people to pay for and buy legit MP3s online via their own companies.
This. Spotify has made a big dent in music piracy because it actually has a good service. It will never abolish the problem but since all the music I want is so easily available to me right now with a cheap price and I can play it on every device (phone, tablet, PC, TV with speakers, and car even without internet), I don't see a need to take the effort and risk to Yar har. Gabe is right that accessibility is king.
@@Peglegkickboxerto be willingly bound to an external proprietary service; how unfree...
@@marcopeterson805 I see both sides like Chanel. Yes it'd be more freeing to download all the music you want for yourself and put it on your phone/mp3, especially for artists that aren't on Spotify. Spotify does make it very accessible though and dare I say fun to use, the features it provides like discovering new music or jamming out with a friend group at a party makes it much more inviting to use especially when you can't share your mp3 files and can just queue up any song at any given moment when you're in a session with your friends. I've done both, I just put my local mp3 files on my Spotify playlists and remain a happy camper 🎉 🎧🎶
@@Peglegkickboxerdownloading music and videos off of internet is risk free
@marcopeterson805 wait until you find out about marriage lmao
Gabe is really something else, he just nails it every time he speaks or writes anything.
Especially if he's talking about Half-Life 2 Episode 3
He may not be able to count to 3, but he puts the customer first
That’s a lot more than any other game company can claim
He definitely can't count to 3 as he can't give us all Half Life 3. I'm grateful for what we got with HL and all it's mods and I understand if he's moved on from a third game.
Gabe is a very smart man. I remember at first how crappy steam was, but its grown into a great platform over the years.
The fact that I always have my games on any PC I can access steam is wonderful. No more lost disks, no more serial number hunting. Everything is great and I think that plays a large role as to why Valve isn't stressed about pirating
Indeed Infact I often wish the Gaming and Infotech industries had more people as smart as Gabe Newel himself including game developer companies too that way games can be developed much sparter with Gabe Newel's knowledge hell We could even have the best operating systems and computers built and made faster and more amazingly advaced too with this mans knowledged and smarts too.
@@FLAME4564because investors want return NOW or they legally sue company for not making money NOW.
While Valve has no investors which means they can do whatever they want. Their vision was to be sustainable long term and look where it got them
It's the truth. I was planning on pirating System Shock 2, I downloaded the torrent, couldn't be bothered to spend time trying to find the right DirectX package to run it. The other day it shows up on Steam for $10, I grabbed it right away.
Think of Epic Games Store and replace the words "copy protection" with "exclusivity"
Ah yes, the thing I use simply to occasionally get free games I never play.
I kinda forgot about that one...
@@traderofgoods6500 gabe is a legend
Russian here btw. I remember that my first licensed game was the result of me wanting to get into creating levels for half-life. I went to the store to buy a half-life game, and the seller just so happened to have a licensed half-life 2 episode 1 which was a new game that I didn't know about at the time. So I bought it, and since then I started playing licensed games, and more and more of them were integrated into Steam with time. Steam was the reason why I started to buy licensed games. I still have my Orange Box and Portal 2 with that holographic picture standing on the shelf. And how did Valve try to sell the very first "collector's edition" in Russia? They used very cheap dvd boxes with cheap paper, but sold 5 licensed games on one DVD for 650 rubles, which was a price of eating well at McDonalds 2-3 times at the time.
And then, fortnite game store shitstorm happened a few years ago, and piracy for videogames in Russia suddenly became relevant again.
hope you're doing well with everything going on over there right now!
It absolutely blows my mind that in the same industry we can have a great guy like Gabe Newell, who cares about his customers just as much as the product and wants to make sure they're happy, and Bobby Kotick, a guy who looks at all of his customers and just sees dollar signs and criminals and has on several occasions stated how he wants to basically ruin the gaming industry.
Thank god for Gabe.
and 11 years later we only knew what went wrong with poor old bobby
@@Lappland.Saluzzo You bet your sweet ass we did
Oh it got worse
Dont forget Tim Cuck Sweeney
Damn, I didn't realize people hated him for this long!
Great interview. He's right about some piracy happening due to game companies mistreating customers and considering certain countries as something that consists only of thieves.
Even back then?
@@cliffturbo2146 mistreating isn't the right word so much as forgetting. To fight piracy on a platform they made any legitimate means of getting their game for that platform or in that region nonexistant, so people turned to piracy just to have access to games.
I've spent so much money on Valve, and I've pirated so much other stuff, then I see this. Gabe is truly spectacular
Fans: Let me buy your games
Nintendo: No
Fans: Ok we will pirate our games
Nintendo: Don’t do that
@@admiralAlfonso9001 Pretty much.
I used to hate steam for several years when it came out. Now when I purchase a PC game, the first thing I ask is "Does it have Steam support?"
One of the most based human beings in history, don't you ever forget it.
Good services like Spotify and Steam prove Gabe's point.
Spotify is awful now. Oh wait, this comment is 7 years old. Nevermind.
@@sleepysteev2735 hahahahahah xDD sorry that was funny! :D
This aged poorly
After 9 years in development it wasn't worth the wait
@@sleepysteev2735 wait, im not aware of whats happening. What is happening?
I guarantee most of the emulation problem would vanish if a proper service was provided. Imagine the plumber man if he realized it.
Nintendo could learn a thing or two from this guy.
Right, but Nintendo's audience is stupid, so they're gonna keep getting away with it for a long time.
@@FreshTillDeath56 until they disappear
@@lautarogomez9711 you will disappear way before nintendo or any of its fans disappear
@@mum-your true, as much as I hate Nintendo's business practices, they aint goin anywhere
@@lautarogomez9711 We will get PC ports of Nintendo games before that happens
He's a fucking genius. I mean seriously, nobody talks as open and explains problems and solutions in such an accessible way. I love this guy.
it's so true, not just to videogames but TV as well, take a show called "The Expanse" literrally impossible to watch LEGALLY outside the US/canada until over 6 months after a season ends for it to turn up on netflix, so you have a show you want to watch and that your willing to pay for but can't because the only way to watch it is through piracy, and this quote suddenly resonated with me about piracy being a service problem rather than just people being unwilling to pay for something
Honestly, the more i watched this, the more i beginning to think Nintendo is blind on why their games getting emulated or roms of their games exist
They think, its the people who caused the problem but in reality, its their fault for not giving availability (bad service)
"Am I so out of touch? No, it's the gamers who are wrong." - Nintendo
i fucking love Gabe. if i ever met him i would give him the biggest, greatest hug ever. he understands exactly what PC gamers want and goes above and beyond to provide it
did i mention i fucking love Gabe? because i do :D
Defiantly understands how to get progress and doing it the right way.
He made Steam so he doesn't have to worry about piracy, making the most reliable and most popular game store / launcher in the world in the process
im always happy to pay for good product. if the product is shitty or not available, well you know
When you get banned on a game on Steam you don't lose any games, as opposed to psn or battlenet
I pray to god this man has picked someone to succeed him
aged very well. a true wizard
Gabe is the hero the gaming industry deserves.
I think what sets gabe apart from other CEOs is that at the heart hes a fan of video games and a consumer
so true on russian piracy. not only we usually have to wait couple months before game comes out and then it's usually translated worse than fan or pirate translation which were made much earlier.
What he said about piracy still lives up today. It is still a service problem and not a pricing one.
Okay, let's say there's a way to get the game for free. Yes, they got the game for free. But did they get the platform's and creators' "Thank You" service for buying their game? Definitely not.
What I mean by a "Thank You" service are the achievements, freebies, and Steam Levels for buying a certain game online. They are very appealing and give you challenges of what to do so that you can enjoy the games you buy. You can add this on your page like a figurine collection. Heck, you can show this to your friends as your proof for finishing a game and show yourself as an avid enjoyer. Another thing that piracy can't apply are multiplayer and online forum services for registered buyers of a game. This may mean nothing for singleplayer gamers as it is very subtle, but the point being that you won't have access through its community via the Steam page.
Buyers can have a sense of fulfillment and enjoying a whole game to its core if you buy that game with the right service, and Steam's services really excels in that category. As someone who pirates games a lot, these are the things I never got to experience that I wish I really could.
Great comment
There's such an interesting business model to this games world which has come to be so massively lucrative.
I will buy every single Valve game, at full price, just to support GabeN and Valve
He's such an intelligent person. Having a company like valve where intelligent developers are all able to put their minds together and make such beloved games makes me happy.
This man has more than just intelligence, he has WISDOM!
I strive to be half as wise as Gaben ^-^
This is why only Gaben gets my filthy prate dollars.
Do you hear that Denuvo? :)
Wow. Dude is speaking exactly why people pirate hockey games. The pirated sites literally have better steady service and no blackout games. Its crazy
this man is a god. the way he so elegantly expresses his views on piracy made me bow down before him.
Gaben fight pirates by loving them! Hey, it works!
I'm buying everything on STEAM. It comes with excellent support and a great community!
i wish to give gabeN a hug and a pat on the back. i listened to the entire video and now i feel all warm inside. to think that someone behind such a big company actually cares on this level for his customers is heartwarming to say the least :D
he truly is an awesome person and genius he is one of the rare people in the game industry who are awesome
Gabe was right. Just yesterday, I wanted to play a childhood game of mine, 20+ years old. I hoppend on Steam and bought it for 10 quids, and it runs. If Steam would not have provided the game, I would have searched for it elsewhere
wow that old steam UI. nostalgic
he is the true mastermind of the gaming industry, such a lovable guy
Exactly what Empress forward.
it feels like i was zoning out while listening to him but i can perfectly recite what he said
Everything he said is completely perfect
Gabe is a pretty cool guy, this interview convinced me.
It's awesome that this is your only uploaded video.
The last minute explains exactly why steam early access exists, and why it always should.
The man speaks so much truth, i regular buy stuff on steam for this reason.
The only downside with this is the "offline mode", i think the guys at valve really need to rethink that one. sometimes i can't even start source SDK, because my school blocked steam connections
For everyone who makes a Gabe is Fat/Delay episode 3 joke...
NEVER forget: THIS is the true face of your jokes; the face of Gaben.
Doesn't mean you can't make jokes, just don't actually think he's stupid.
Nobody think he stupid lmao. One of the smartest people on the planet arguably
5:52 ............ Great Idea! Half Life 3, "Shut up and take my $$"
nintendo could take notes about piracy
1:38 He was talking about $2000 PCs back in 2009. Imagine if he did this interview today with today's inflation and especially with today's overpriced components. He will probably say something like $5000.
he would be talking about prebuilt PCs if it was talking about 5'000 dollars today, because a 2'000 dollar custom PC could still give out the equivalent, except the lack of software optimisation.
Rockstar need to see this right now following the catastrophe of gta trilogy.
Don't forget their garbage online drm on the Rockstar Launcher
Thats why I ONLY play rockstar games on Xbox, i refuse to download their stupid launcher. Id rather play their games in an inferior way, than to use their stupid launcher..@@orlandofurioso7329
And on top of that, I ONLY buy them used, so rockstar doesnt get any of my money. lol.
Gabe is able to read what direction the industry is going about a decade earlier than most other people.
I had literally pay for games after pirating and fully completing them beforehand simply because I ended up wanting to support the devs and it was faster to get updates from the source instead of possibly waiting a week for a pirate site to update depending on the case. In an era where demos are seen as pointless it not really a surprise remorse buys also increase. Games I "gotten for free" otherwise I often time don't even play more than a hour. With Steam refund policy it is less of a thing I do nowadays but depending on the game 2 hours might not be enough time and I find myself giving me a personal demo first. I'm sure a ton of people pirate without the intention of buying whatsoever but I'm just adding some people pirate but have the willingness and funds to buy the game but don't want to be stuck with what is basically a Steam scar claiming to be a game. Stuff like Bad Rats can get away with it being only cents on a dollar but AAA slop wanting 70 dollars not counting day one dlcs and special edition bullshit, I can't afford trusting the company have my best interest in mind when they put more time and effort into marketing than the game itself.
Gabe Newell seriously is the Godfather of the gaming industry. Every company strives to become an entity like Valve.
it was the same with music. I used to pirate albums constantly when I was younger. Now I just pay my monthly YT premium or whatever, and I just...don't think about it anymore, got that music problem solved. Looking for seeds and files doesn't even feel worth the effort to me now.
His take on piracy is spot on. They're not actually pirates, more of like...motivated 3rd part developers.
intellectual property never should protect any services/products stating that they can revoke their services/rights to use provided at any time consumers initially legally paid for. especially for piracy cases where someone rips out a service and uses it without affecting the official ones.
Goddamn, Gabe, it felt like listening to a mirror image. You're brilliant! Truly one of the very few big people in the gaming industry who are truly admirable.
Somebody please teach this lesson to the CEO of Ubisoft. Maybe the reason that everyone pirates your games on PC is because your service is worse than hemeroids. I would rather bleed out of my ass than use Uplay ever again. I pay for your games but playing them makes me wish for a pirated version that doesnt stop me from playing the game every 2 mins to reconnect me to your crappy servers in a singleplayer experience (Splinter Cell: Conviction).
gabe is a real bro. he is the guy that does his job because its fun and he likes others to have fun with it too. he thinks of the future with his community financial thing which is great in my eyes. i would happily invest 200€ to remake games like jagged alliance but not in the way big companies would redo them but in the way the community loves and wants the game.
bobby kotick on the other hand seems like his evil twinbrother from bizarroworld.
1:39 stroke of genius, he deserves every dollar to his name.
It's been 16 18 years later and I've bought the L4D set again It's still perfect
5:30 called kickstarter in 09.... genius man...
@DanteForever20XX hmm interesting. I have decent internet, but we were having problems with it, I never actually unplugged it. That is a possibility. I will experiment with it, thanks for the advice.
Love ya Gabe, fantastic credit to the gaming community.
Most epic quote yet seen so far.
The more exercise Gabe does over the course of the development cycle for any one of his games, the less time he actually gets to spend improving the game.
If Episode 3 comes out and he's twice the size as he is in this video, it's going to be fucking KICK-ASS.
I really, really want to work for Valve. Theyre the only company I have ever seen when it comes to video games that isnt a greedy cash cow. AND their games are awesome.
The gaming culture wont be the same without Gabe Newell
5:00 It almost sounds like he's describing Kickstarter! :D
@Alimus13 I agree, except I think the dialogue in Mass Effect 2 was better than Mass Effect 1 in most parts. What game developed by bioware do you think is the turning point for new Bioware?
Gabe is the hero we need and the hero we deserve.
I've got two bachelor's degrees, and I feel like cheating in school is the same way. If the teacher's had course layouts with material deliveries that made students who wanted to do things the right way have a fighting chance to, cheating would be eliminated.
I don't get why everyone hates Gabe, this man is one of the most intelligent people on the Internet of all time.
Gaben predicted the rise of kickstarter games and began to think of Steam Greenlight 3 years ago.
Gaben is psychic.
Ahoy ye fellow Playstation users! It seems the "Great" Sony Empire has abandoned us to the briney depths, leavin' us with no place to spend our coin, no aid for our download problems, no reward for our brand loyalty, as we call out to them in our darkest time of need...This be a new age lads! An age of uncertainty. An age of discovery! May yer bounties be plentiful and yer bans be none. Set sail lads, for game preservation island! Yarheharharhar!!! ☠️
Actually you can play a lot of steam games launching them directly from their directories. DRM in steam is a choice of the publisher, not Valve. Also, you can always play any game on steam in offline mode if your internet connection dies.
1:52 probably what you came for
Gabe is fucking awesome wish there were more people like him in the gaming industry.
haha Right on :). Hell people in busnisess like Nintendo, Microsoft and mabey even Apple could also learn alot from this man and be inspired to improve a lot from him.
soooo many companies need to listen to this man
Why is Gabe the only man on the entire planet Earth who understands people?
It's not just about localization, but also companies getting greedy and stack more price and call it "exclusive" while it's easier to just pirate it and save your money to buy some snacks that will last for a week or less while enjoying the game. But nowadays, there are more countermeasures of piracy such as denuvo, or client that makes you play while staying online.
There are only two ways I can see where the future of gaming is going; Pressing forward for free to play games with microtransactions, or go back to the old, dated, and polished games.
Companies like Activision is getting more of a killjoy than a smile on a face. They treat gamers like some sons of corporate CEOs with endless flow of cash. Gaming is slowly dying, but it still can be saved by following the steps of From Software's examples.
**Nintendo SEETHING right now**
@snipermagoo Apologies, I didn't mean to make it sound like that. Of course, I don't deny that doing simple things such as reducing price or increasing the accessability of a game will reduce piracy. I merely think that there are certain individuals who will pirate games and other stuff no matter what the situation, as it is simply cheaper.
if you listen you can hear me on the radio, that BRIGHT WHITE NOISE!
This video explains why people pirate and it's not just games, it's movies, and music. And it's most likely to do with too many exclusives and the prices are too high.
I love the contrast between the top 2 comments.
He is good! I downloaded a pirated version of GMOD to test it and when I tried it I thought it was fun and I bought the game. I've done like that many times :P
@jpheitman i see , i guess that is something bad about it but there are always cd versions of the games that u could get :)
@WashingMachine0 link to preorder? :)
This guy is a gaming god !