Why does everyone love gabe newell

He's just so perfect and beautiful and awesome. He looks like Santa's chubby cousin. How do you not love that. Zespri View Profile View Posts. Because people need someone to love, and apparently making games is a valid reason to do so. Ackinator View Profile View Posts. Because in GabeN blessed gamers all over the world with the introduction of a new software called "Steam". Originally posted by ThePineapple :. Originally posted by supertrooper :.

Originally posted by darkangel98s :. Why do people like people they will never meet in real life or ever see how they really are? People like celebrities, just for being a celebrity. For example, Steam is a group effort by Valve, yet Gabe Newell gets the praise for it the most as he is the face for the company. Same with movies. Do we recognize the director or producer who made the movie? No, we tend to recognize the actor who is the main character. They have become the face of the movie and tend to get most the feelings about the movie placed on them, as they are the largest and most visible part, it makes sense.

Per page: 15 30 Valve CEO Gabe Newell sees other PC storefronts as a benefit to the industry, though he acknowledges the immediate effect of new competitors can be a sour one. You're like, 'Argh, they're yelling, they're making us look bad' - but in the long term, everybody benefits from the discipline and the thoughtfulness it means you have to have about your business by having people come in and challenge you. If you ask us which is scarier, it's people falling in love with Apple's model of controlling everything and having faceless bureaucrats who get to keep your product from entering the market if they don't want it to, or designing a store in a way that minimizes software's value-add to experience and stuff like that.

In it, he discusses his admiration for the island country, where he recently applied for residency after having sheltered there during the COVID pandemic. He also used the interview to confirm that Valve does indeed have new games in development though he declined to offer more details and addressed rumors that the company plans to set up an office in New Zealand. You can check out the full interview on 1 News.

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Apr 21, Valve's Gabe Newell said in an interview that he thinks EA's digital distribution service, Origin, doesn't do anything very well right now, and has a lot of catching up to do with competition like Valve's Steam. By David M. Ewalt Former Contributor. Sep 27, May 17, Gabe Newell and his company have a great sense of humor, as evidenced by all of their titles, so it can be hard to tell when the man's joking.

I'm still trying to decipher this interview he did with Develop, as he set forth a theory for a new pricing model [ Gabe Newell is the next billionaire in videogames--and he's changing the economics of the industry.

By Oliver Chiang Forbes Staff. Nov 13, The founder of the industry-shaking game developer Valve and digital distributor Steam is a name you need to know.