Videogaming247 had the honor to sit down and speak candidly with Valve's Gabe Newell.
Newell talks about Left 4 Dead, Microsoft's role in holding back updates to the Orange Box on the Xbox 360, Episode 3, and on selling Valve. Don't worry it's not what you think, or is it?
Newell talks about Left 4 Dead, Microsoft's role in holding back updates to the Orange Box on the Xbox 360, Episode 3, and on selling Valve. Don't worry it's not what you think, or is it?
How’s Episode 3 coming along? You’ve been quiet on it for a while now.Newell had this to say about the state of the updates on the Orange Box for consoles.
Newell: Doug is shaking his head at me, so I don’t get to talk about it. It’s coming along well. I think it’s going to be the best episode of the three.
The big concern I have right now is our ability to provide updates. On the PC side, we’ve done as many as four updates in a day, and that’s great: we can respond very quickly. If Nvidia puts out a new graphics driver and it changes some way about how texture management works, then before our customers know there’s any issue then the problem has gone away.There is a lot of great material in this interview, so be sure not to miss it.
Or we can do the Pyro updates, and the Medic updates [and so on]. On the consoles, they want us to charge money for them, because that’s in their model, and our model is very much more to grow the community by giving out free updates. That’s harder for us.