Gabe Newell's DICE Keynote_ Left 4 Dead Sales, TF2 Comic Books

Valve boss Gabe Newell just got done with his keynote address at this year’s Design Innovate Communicate Entertain conference in Vegas. It was great! Here are the highlights. – He says some great sutff about combating piracy. Really seems to hit the nail on the head when it comes to the PC market. He says that people aren’t pirating because they’re cheapskates, they’re pirating because it’s a better service. No regional delays, no DRM, instant downloading, that kind of thing.(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c&cid=872d12ce-453b-4870-845f-955919887e1b'; cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c" }).render("79703296e5134c75a2db6e1b64762017"); }); Which Steam is aiming to match. They’re not trying to stamp out piracy, they’re trying to catch up. – The team currently working on Team Fortress 2’s excellent character videos are now working on comics. He didn’t specify whether they’d be Team Fortress 2 comics, though, but you’d wager it’d be something Valve-related, or he wouldn’t be mentioning it now, would he? MTV”s Stephen Totilo has let us know that, yes, they’re working on Team Fortress 2 comics – Steam sales don’t increase sales. “Increase” is doing the benefit a disservice. Team Fortress 2 sales go up by over 100% when there’s a free update on the PC. And the recent Left 4 Dead sale? That saw sales of the game increase by 3000%. And no, that’s not a typo. https://kotaku.com/left-4-dead-still-cheap-til-tuesday-5154580 – The benefits of Steam as a retail platform don’t stop there. H25 Newell also mentioned that for a particular third-party game h25 com สล็อต​ (which goes unnamed), sales went up h25 com เข้าสู่ระบบ​ 36,000% following a weekend sale. Sure, that’s a hand-picked statistic (it’s just one game, and we don’t know how low sales were beforehand), but it’s also an enormous figure. – Responding to audience questions, Newell believes that it’s inevitable that a service like Steam – which started on the PC – will eventually migrate to consoles. Live Blog: DICE 2009 Keynote – Gabe Newell, Valve Software [G4]