A Definitive Look at Valve

Introduction

I suppose I should warn you beforehand that this writeup will be atrociously long. Now, for an explanation. I’ve perhaps gained a reputation around here for my dislike of Valve, a video game developer famous for a number of games that are among some of the leading figures on sales for the PC market. In fact, I’m even willing to concede that Valve’s Steam perhaps encompasses half of the PC market. Which probably makes you wonder: Why do I hate good games? And to answer that loaded question, I suppose I first have to take a deep inspection on Valve as a whole, because no true retort that is sure to melt the faces of Valve fans should be without a load of research. So let’s start from the beginning as to why Valve is such a “great” company, shall we?