What does Valve do with all the money they make from Steam?

What does any company do with the profits they earn?

Any number of things.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kMdNkAcQx8 I love VALVE

Not much apparently. How many years ago was the last Half Life game/episode?

Valve is probably my disappointment for a developer this generation other than maybe Lucasarts.

They build a bigger vault to keep Half Life 3 locked away forever in.

They build a bigger vault to keep Half Life 3 locked away forever in.

Bigboi500

Spend said profit....

Not much apparently. How many years ago was the last Half Life game/episode?

Valve is probably my disappointment for a developer this generation other than maybe Lucasarts.

KC_Hokie

I hear Gabe owns a majority stake in Valve, so some of the money flows to him. Rest of it probably goes into retained earnings.

I don´t know,release three or four AAA games so far this gen,even without a full new Half Life? I´d say they´re doing better than the majority of developers out there.

Not to mention steam and all the awesome deals it has and the support that theyb give to their games,very few devs do that,at least at that extent.

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Not much apparently. How many years ago was the last Half Life game/episode?

Valve is probably my disappointment for a developer this generation other than maybe Lucasarts.

kris9031998

In the last (nearly) five years they haven't release anything Half Life.

Portal 2 is neat and all but doesn't cut it for me. And the Left 4 Dead games are technically made by their subsidiary. And I have zero interest in DOTA....for a RTS game I prefer Civ or Starcraft. Plus, DOTA 2 isn't even out yet so not sure what that has to do with anything.

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Not much apparently. How many years ago was the last Half Life game/episode?

Valve is probably my disappointment for a developer this generation other than maybe Lucasarts.

KC_Hokie

In the last (nearly) five years they haven't release anything Half Life.

Portal 2 is neat and all but doesn't cut it for me. And the Left 4 Dead games are technically made by their subsidiary.

My guess would be that Gabe spends his portion on cake and prostitutes, but that is only a guess.

My guess would be that Gabe spends his portion on cake and prostitutes, but that is only a guess.

Pug-Nasty

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[QUOTE="kris9031998"] But 2 L4D games, Alien Swarm, Portal 2, and hundreds of updates for CSS/TF2/DoD, with the announcement of Dota 2 and CSGO....isnt disappointing.kris9031998

In the last (nearly) five years they haven't release anything Half Life.

Portal 2 is neat and all but doesn't cut it for me. And the Left 4 Dead games are technically made by their subsidiary.

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Continue to pioneer new ways to delay Episode 3. Also, finance their cube-and-button based testing endeavors.

Well, they probably pay royalties and such to the publishers that put the games on the site, pay for maintenance on the office and the website, budget for their games, pay their employees, and put all the income and stuff in the bank or some place. enterawesome

They do awesome things with it...

Off Topic: Is there an official forum on GS for Steam Games trading? I have just found out out about it and have aquite a few games id like to trade butnobody to trade them with

They do awesome things with it...

Off Topic: Is there an official forum on GS for Steam Games trading? I have just found out out about it and have aquite a few games id like to trade butnobody to trade them with

TigerWars

It has been four years since the last Half-Life Episode, if the game is not out next year that means it will have been in development for a total of five years. For comparison the time span between Half-Life and Half-Life 2 was six years. I think Valve failed on the whole "episodic content" thing, no?

Well they're not using it to make Episode 3 or Half Life 3 that's for sure :P

Might as well ask that about a lot of companies that make a boat load of money, but who never seem to invest it more in gaming. Or invest it in making more risks.

Hell, look at Blizzard for instance.

Fans use the old--they put out few games, because their games get as close to perfection as possible. I just call it laziness, especially when they haven't tried anything on a new IP in ages. The same is applied to Valve(except the new IP). These companies have enough money to form development teams capable of challenging the quality and quantity of titles found in companies such as Nintendo. Yet, they don't do it at all. Nothing wrong with that, personally, after all, it's a business.

They invest in new gaming talent, invest in games, invest in infrastructure, invest external sales, taxes, regulations, reserves, lawyers, psychologists, economists, ASL interpreters and plenty more we probably don't know about.

To buy hats

They build a bigger vault to keep Half Life 3 locked away forever in.

Bigboi500

My guess would be that Gabe spends his portion on cake and prostitutes, but that is only a guess.

Pug-Nasty

Great job, u just delayed HL3 by another 4months.

Sex, drugs and cars

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My guess would be that Gabe spends his portion on cake and prostitutes, but that is only a guess.

painguy1

Great job, u just delayed HL3 by another 4months.

Darn, but I guess that gives me four months more to not finish HL 2 or its episodes.

I reiterate, Valve has just been rehashing the Source engine, not making completely new games. All those games you listed are practically just mods of HL2.EvanTheGamer