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Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Update

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567 points Philpax | 2 comments | 15 Nov 24 22:18 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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eknkc ◴[15 Nov 24 23:18 UTC] No.42152405[source]▶
20-25 years ago a handful of companies had a weird hold on me. I’d jump on anything Google made back then. Blizzard could sell me any game they came up with. If it was from Blizzard, it was gonna be great.

Lost all of it obviously. Not a single company has my loyalty anymore.

Except if valve were to release a mystery black box with faint lambda symbol on it. I’d pay whatever they asked for it.

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balls187 ◴[15 Nov 24 23:24 UTC] No.42152458[source]▶
> Not a single company has my loyalty anymore.

FromSoft

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1. marginalia_nu ◴[15 Nov 24 23:34 UTC] No.42152531[source]▶
Besides FromSoft as perhaps the exception to the rule as a subsidary to Kadokawa, private companies seem to be keeping their shit together fairly consistently. Larian and Wube are a pair of solid examples, although Valve is probably the most outstanding example.

Game developers and publishers start shitting the bed when they IPO and need to juggle the conflicting interests of managing investor relations as well as customer demands; that or when they're acquired and turned into a subsidiary.

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2. philistine ◴[16 Nov 24 03:44 UTC] No.42153960[source]▶
Wube at this point could announce they made an arsenal of thermonuclear devices and I'd trust them with it.