{"id":7519,"date":"2010-09-10T11:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T09:50:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"13-mistakes-valve-admits-to-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/7519-13-mistakes-valve-admits-to-making","title":{"rendered":"13 Mistakes Valve admits to making"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an interview with PCGamer<\/a>, various high-level Valve executives were asked what the company’s biggest mistakes have been. Thirteen different answers were given. <\/p>\n

1. Gabe Newell: <\/strong>“Moss, in the original Half-Life 1.” – referring to the time when Valve claimed that moss would grow in real-time in Half-Life.<\/p>\n

2. Erik Johnson:<\/strong> “The first few months of Steam.” <\/p>\n

3. Doug Lombardi:<\/strong> “It’s hard to say now, but the first two days of Half-Life 2. That was a failure.”<\/p>\n

4. Gabe Newell<\/strong>: “Prospero, the game that we never shipped.”<\/p>\n

5. Doug Lombardi:<\/strong> “The Team Fortress 2 that was built up until 2000.” – referring to the early direction taken by the game.<\/p>\n

6. Gabe Newell: <\/strong> “Our first stab at Blobulator was a failure.” – unclear what this is, may be referring to Steam’s .blob file problem. <\/p>\n

7. Gabe Newell:<\/strong> “Invasion<\/a> was a failure.”<\/p>\n

8. Erik Johnson:<\/strong>  “The second TF2.” – we assume this refers to the second build of Team Fortress 2, which was a far cry from the cel-shaded romp we know and love today.<\/p>\n

9. Doug Lombardi:<\/strong> “There [were] a few failed starts to build Left 4 Dead, too. That took a while before it took shape.”<\/p>\n

10. Gabe Newell:<\/strong> “The Riot Shield, but that was small on a failure scale.”<\/p>\n

11. Gabe Newell:<\/strong> “Speaking of screw-ups, banning people in Call of Duty.” – referring to earlier this year when Valve wrongfully banned 12,000 Modern Warfare 2 players. <\/p>\n

12. Erik Johnson:<\/strong>  “PS3, so far. The way we’ve dealt with those customers so far.”<\/p>\n

13. Erik Johnson:<\/strong> “The lack of updates on the 360 for TF2 is also a total failure.”<\/p>\n

Discuss Valve’s failures<\/a> on the MyGaming forum.<\/p>\n

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