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What Does Valve Think About Valve Time



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#1 Posted 13 July 2012 - 07:54 AM

An article on EuroGamer.net sheds some light on what Valve Software actually thinks about the term given to their production cycles now popularly known as Valve Time.
This is what business development chief Jason Holtman told Eurogamer at the Develop conference in Brighton.
"Valve loves the Valve Time tag - so much so that it values it." Read on for a quote from the article.

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Holtman described Valve Time as "charming" and "kind of a compliment". "We like it," he continued.
"We also value it. If the end result is, we get tagged a little bit of like, we can't tell when you're coming out or you take longer, that's okay with us. Because we're trusting the fact that when it takes longer, it will be better.

The thing that is ultimately consumed and played with, customers will like it better - like it better than the thing we could have shipped them a year ago. We would infinitely rather have happy customers for decades, rather than a happy batch of customers at one Christmas. We try as hard as we can to make the best thing possible in the right time frame and get people content they want to consume. And if that takes longer, that's fine."

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#2 Posted 13 July 2012 - 08:29 AM

I suppose there is no Reason it should bother them. Their games are popular both with gamers and critics. They don't have to be constantly shipping games because they are highly profitable anyway (thanks to steam). And there is no publisher breathing down their necks...



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#3 Posted 13 July 2012 - 06:13 PM

True, they are in a pretty unique situation in the industry and that's all down to Steam.
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