>Gabe Newell On Origin At Gamescom
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While visiting Gamescom, doing his thing as The Dark Knight of the PC gaming community as well as representing Valve, Mr. Newell found time to sit down with PC Gamer for a video interview. The topics ranged from whether or not Newell still worried about the price of groceries to Episode 3 (no new information) and Dota 2 (for which he claims to have logged 800 hours of playtime into and continues to enjoy every minute). The interview topic inevitably turned to Origin and Newell had much to say.
“I got an account before I came here and was trying it out. So yeah, I’ve tried it.”
“I don’t really know what they’re referring to by that,” he replied. “In general with Steam and Steam partners its incumbent on us to create value for those partners, whether it’s EA or Ubisoft or Take Two or any of the other developers who are using it, so that’s our goal, to create enough value so that is makes sense for partners to use the technology, the tools, services and community that we’ve created.”
So the plot between rival and arguably feuding PC content managers thickens. If what Newell says is true, then EA pulled their games solely off Steam’s ‘shelves’ for the money and business opportunity created from the exclusivity of Origin. Not a problem, a business can do what a business wants, but when you begin lying about your actions, then it becomes less defensible. We may never find out, but this real life theatre is better than most T.V.
Watch the full interview here
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AlexTitle: Absentee Staff Member About: Alex is a proud Rhodes Scholar currently living in his vehicle, a 1993 Toyota Camry, so that he may be closer to the rhode. As an avid cinemagoer, often he will go for six or seven hours at a time playing air hockey with unattended minors in the arcade without ever actually seeing a film, before returning home to his Camry. On weekends he dresses himself up as a Little Sister from his favourite video game BioShock before attending Bear and Twink Conventions in search of his Big Daddy. Currently runs the KBMOD YouTube Channel.
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