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IMHO the proof is in the pudding. What was the last first party title that Valve released? Left4Dead 2? It can't take that many people to make hats or ignore the numerous longstanding issues on Steam. It's not like they are providing tech support or policing the marketplace. What have all of those people accomplished in the last decade?

If there is still a games division in Valve it is exceedingly dysfunctional.




They're too busy making 100s of millions of dollars with dota2 and steam


Artifact coming out soonish. Gameplay teasers been already out so I say later this year or next year


In term of new game ideas: Portal 1 in 2007. All other titles were sequels.


Portal was a reimplementation of Narbacular Drop after Valve hired the developer.


It's their strategy: they also hired developers of Dota, Counter-Strike, Team Fortress, and even Ricochet.


The Portal team was aquahired, like dota2's IceFrog.


>What was the last first party title that Valve released?

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