Despite Valve still finalizing their plans for what they'll be showing off at this year's E3, that didn't stop Doug Lombardi from talking to PC Gamer about how the company would love to have a more PC focused E3. Lombardi said that they would love to have a huge discussion with other PC focused developers such as Blizzard, Nexon and more about the current state of PC gaming and future trends the companies see the industry heading in.
It would certainly be a nice way of showing the world that 'yeah, PC gaming isn't dead.'
“If you saw Gabe’s DICE speech about three or four years ago, his keynote there? He basically gave an update on where we were and where we saw the PC going and what trends we thought were interesting and it was probably 35-40 minutes,” he said. “Something like that might be something that would be cool. I think that maybe having someone maybe like Blizzard there, maybe someone like Nexon there, could be an interesting thing.”
The event wouldn’t be a huge, celebrity laden gig. “You know, we’ve talked about that a bit and I think what that looks like, maybe, is us not doing the shock and awe thing at the Galen centre or whatever, vis-a-vie the console guys where you have three thousand people in there and we have to hire some star to make it interesting or we’re going to waste your time for two hours.”
“‘Waste’ is a little bit harsh, but anyway, we don’t want to burn your time for two hours.”
“We’ve always felt a responsibility to our audience – we’re PC gamers first and we love PC games so we’ve always wanted to do that,” he said. “I mean we’ve built Steam because nobody else was doing it and we built it as solid as we’d need to make PC gaming better.”
“But I think that’s different from saying “We’re the platform holder” right? And we always put the customer first, and that customer may be Joe Gamer living in Springfield, Illinois, or that customer might be the guys at CCP or that customer might be the Red Orchestra guys, Tripwire or Activision or whoever else, right?
“They’re all our customers in one way, and we’re serving those guys and trying to make their lives better on the gaming side, and their experience better on the gamer side, and we’re trying to help the other guys make more creative things and obviously help the revenue where we can and help them get”
The event wouldn’t be a huge, celebrity laden gig. “You know, we’ve talked about that a bit and I think what that looks like, maybe, is us not doing the shock and awe thing at the Galen centre or whatever, vis-a-vie the console guys where you have three thousand people in there and we have to hire some star to make it interesting or we’re going to waste your time for two hours.”
“‘Waste’ is a little bit harsh, but anyway, we don’t want to burn your time for two hours.”
“We’ve always felt a responsibility to our audience – we’re PC gamers first and we love PC games so we’ve always wanted to do that,” he said. “I mean we’ve built Steam because nobody else was doing it and we built it as solid as we’d need to make PC gaming better.”
“But I think that’s different from saying “We’re the platform holder” right? And we always put the customer first, and that customer may be Joe Gamer living in Springfield, Illinois, or that customer might be the guys at CCP or that customer might be the Red Orchestra guys, Tripwire or Activision or whoever else, right?
“They’re all our customers in one way, and we’re serving those guys and trying to make their lives better on the gaming side, and their experience better on the gamer side, and we’re trying to help the other guys make more creative things and obviously help the revenue where we can and help them get”
It would certainly be a nice way of showing the world that 'yeah, PC gaming isn't dead.'