Wed, Oct 14, 2009 | 08:41 BST
Newell: “We really are part of this community”
Valve boss Gabe Newell’s stuck his leg in the sand over his team’s place in the gaming community, saying it’s fully involved.
“We recognize that we really are part of this community,” he said, speaking in Australia after a Valve fan raised the cash to ship him out there.
“We talk about it a lot, that we’re not up here and the community’s down here, and the games snowflake in. We really are part of it.”
Newell expanded on the whole Australia incident, which came about after Gabe jokingly said he’s travel Down Under if an L4D Campaign-maker stumped up for his air fare.
“It was pretty clear that this was one of those things that the community fell in love with the idea,” he added.
“They wanted us to come down here and meet with Joe and give him feedback. And in our experience, it’s been very bad idea when we get such a clear signal from PC gaming community, if we ignore it.”
Watch the full interview after the break. Thanks, Kotaku.
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8 comments
#1
Yoshi
14/10/09, 9:19 am
Surprised you guys n girls havnt posted about him announcing work on L4D3 soon. Was on hes twitter page.
#2
Patrick Garratt
14/10/09, 9:26 am
Really? Got a link?
#3
Freek
14/10/09, 9:37 am
I propose everybody asks him about Half Life Episode 3, or perhaps start a fund raiser to bribe him to talk about it
#4
Patrick Garratt
14/10/09, 9:58 am
I’m pretty sure that account is fake, looking at it
#5
Tonka
14/10/09, 10:27 am
Where is the petition?
#6
Yoshi
14/10/09, 11:04 am
Pat here you go,
http://twitter.com/gabenewell
# Left4dead 2 is working me to the bone, I shall one day rest and on that day, I’ll finally be able to start work on left4dead 3
1:13 PM Oct 10th from Echofon
#7
El_MUERkO
14/10/09, 11:30 am
L4D3 will be developed in heaven/hell/heck … cool
#8
blackdreamhunk
14/10/09, 2:46 pm
I like where vavle is going with this. No more need for publishers. pc gaming is now going that route any way.