A farewell to Valve: Valve is abandoning xbox 360.

[darkrapture237]

It's the worst news for us, the fans. Valve has announced that we will no longer get any type of updates, or new game. CS:GO is our last Valve game. Valve is only going to focus on ps3, and PC. They're leaving us, guys......They are leaving. Let's do the final days by enjoying the last of Valve's games...

[PezDispenser]

Not to burst your bubble, but Valve announced well over a year ago that there'd be no more TF2 patches for the 360.

I guess the Assumption is that we'll all take TF2 PC being free as the reward for Our loyalty and support.

Personally, I bought the Orange Box 360 for TF2 and Portal --without needing Steam on my PC---- and the Half-life games were a bonus.

I guess I may eventually set up Steam to run in VM on my PC. They haven't sold me any games, since the Orange Box though. It's hard to respect a company that dis-owns a minority to which I belong.

At the very least, the retail copies should have something that says "unsupported software" on them. Otherwise, each new Valve game for the 360 just added insult to injury. From where I sit, new games for the PS3 won't really be any change at all, in Valve's attitude towards Us.

Re: Steam: I've not bought/played StarCraft II either (which would have been high on my "must get" list). Requiring that I check in, every time I load/play a single player game, just is not happening.

I've also got Saint's Row the Third, for the 360, which came with a one-GamerTag use code, for the multiplayer side of the game. I wouldn't have bought the game, it that had been advertised.

These companies are capable of making great products. They just don't mind treating fans like garbage. Right now, their servers crash, or the company goes chapter 11 ---and their best customers are just automatically screwed.

TF is pretty much the one game Valve's got, that I can't really find a comparable replacement for, from one of their competitors.

[darkrapture237]

I couldn't agree more. & you're right. There's no competitve similiarity with TF2. It's a one and only game. ( For some reason though, when I first learned and played tf2, it somehow was familiar....o_o)

[PezDispenser]

TF2 has always oddly reminded me of Starsiege Tribes... Oddly, because Tribes was wide-open, played over 56k modem ---where TF2 has small maps, and apparently maxes out the xbox360s video and broadband.

(If you look through my old posts, you'll find fairly frequent refs to Tribes.)

[Phaethon42]

Well this sucks. I feel like Valve is taking out their inability to cooperate/compromise with Microsoft on its fans. But honestly, what can we do?

The petition thing we set up was a good idea, but it's been a year in 8 days, and we've only got a little over 400 signatures - not really a large outcry. I don't want to think of Valve as a big douchey corporation, but look at what they've handed the Xbox community

[PezDispenser]

Yeah, I'm pretty disappointed in the turn out on the Petition, too. It's not like I don't still see people playing, or good players ----it just seems like the number of 9-year-olds has gone up and continues to.

You can't really call them Morons, if they're just 9. So, I'm actually being really nice to them.... I don't know why so many 9-year-olds are up so early in the morning, or so late at night. (International 9-year-olds?)

You do have to take My opinions with a bit of salt. I've seen some "dark days," and enough of them I tend to prefer to expect more crap ---and be pleasantly surprised--- than expect fewer and be disappointed.

I had hoped for more from Our little community, though.

I really hate this thought I have, that the Petition did poorly, not because of TF2 PC or Our lack of patches ---but because people moved on to CoD or BF.

(I'm now playing Borderlands & Saints Row III, but I'm not going to get 400 hours out of either of those games. And I still check for TF2 matches.)

[darkrapture237]

Valve definitely is not a douchy corporation. They, and including you Phaethon, were nice enough to bring us the fiirst installments of: l4d, tf2, and portal. These games were brung to us in hope of entertainment, and impressions....however. It's like we're just first-try beta testers, and after we like/love it, valve immediately goes to PC to spoil them. In addition, SOMEBODY from valve should speak to Gaben about a contract with MSFT. Not being fast, or selfish. It's been like 2-3 years since we've earned an update. I really don't understand how l4d2 gets tons of updates, even on xbox, but the orange box has only had 4, since 2007.

[PezDispenser]

My XBL Gold subscription expired last week, and I've not renewed. My use has been way down anyway --due to work and time spent on home-improvements.

I may end up restarting by summer, but I plan to go ahead & try TF2 PC first.

So far, I certainly miss TF2 much more than LIve ---maybe because the game has been missing something for most of a year, already.