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> From recent accounts of former employees, he's pretty hands off with the company nowadays, mainly playing Dota 2 in his office and occasionally coming out to see how everyone is doing.

Uh. That's kinda sad. I remember messages on some forums (edit: around hl2 release) from some gamers asking if he was okay since he had gained a lot of weight at that time.

I remember one of the guy who won a prize competition and was given a tour of Valve offices and took pictures of the crowbar (or something else, details are fuzzy).

It looks like depression from here.



So he has a money making plattform now, but maybe he should have focused more on making good games, that make people happy, to stay happy himself?


Sorry, I didn't mean to imply anything. It's just what comes to my mind when I picture the Valve of today upon reading OP's comment (playing dota in the office).

It's more a statement about how depressing the whole thing is.

Yeah, I am still bitter about hl3 and the "we have the tools to churn out an hour of hl every week so we are going into episodes".

Sigh.


It's telling that it's just assumed that playing DotA is a sign of depression.


Just playing ... no.

But allmost only playing it and neglecting real world around it, might be.




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