10-25-2005, 06:00 AM
Artega,Oct 24 2005, 08:14 PM Wrote:While I bash Blizzard as much - and maybe more - than the next person, they're still leaps and bounds ahead of any other developer out there; Valve is the only one that comes close (Steam, now that it's working pretty well, is one of the most brilliant ideas I've seen).
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Hardly. Valve has thus far put out one great game which it has repackaged a dozen times and followed it up with a mediocre one. If you had made this comment five years ago, I would have agreed with you. The only thing Valve truly gets credit for is knocking Id of it's pedastle.
There are many game companies that have produced better overall results than Valve. Rockstar (undeniably successful, although unlikely to appeal to the lurker crowd) and Relic come to mind, although there are probably better examples. Which is not to say Valve is a bad company. They are light-years ahead of the travesties that are such companies as Ion Storm and 3DRealms.