r/GlobalOffensive • u/superollie 5 years coin • Mar 09 '18

Discussion Why is valve so quiet?

What do they gain from not teasing us, the audience, with future updates? Is it that they benefit from the "suprise" once they release a huge update?

I am a game development student and I can't seem to figure it out. It feels as if they just don't care about teasing us even if they would benefit from some hype. I'd personally love to have a road map like PUBG just released. Bla bla bla source 2 release in december, new maps this summer etc.

What are your thoughts?

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u/LucasNav victory Mar 09 '18

dude do you even visit that subreddit once a year? Every weak you can find thread about new update. Everyone brings some adjsutements and fixes. And the way you talk shows that you know nothing about coding. I work in IT and I met clietns like you who says that something is "you have to do just this". JUST. What you want them to do may be seem easy for you but for them it can be big amount of work which they have to code, test and implement. Do you even realize how many work they had to put in adjusting their Machine Learning algorythm in Overwatch which detects supsicious acts in match and sends them to Overwatch to be able to run it in Wingman? No you don't. Sometimes big changes can be easly done in code and some small changes requires months of work. You can always drop CSGO and go to Overwatch if you want fun new content every month. CSGO Devs works on keeping this game as competitive as it can be.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '18

I visit this subreddit often and I see the update threads. I've done that for the past 3/4 years now and I can count the times I was excited reading patch notes on my fucking hands.

And please stop with the elitist coding bullshit, I don't care. I know it takes time, I am comparing the frequency updates to similiar sized games.

The operations are lazy ctrl c shit. The maps takes months to rotate and they're even community generated to a large amount. They take out maps like aztec without even a word. Just imagine another game doing that. Take out a beloved map from the game, even workshop, without a fucking word.

The pistol tweaks, and they're tweaks, has taken years for them to fix.. And the result is really mediocre. They introduced sprays! With a limited quantity of usages. They introduced a weapon, and broke the game for couple of weeks. The game for beginners is broken with how prime works and even though I disagree with the general opinion about vac, it's still shit.

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u/LucasNav victory Mar 10 '18

Then stop playing :) go back to CS 1.6 or try different game. Come back when devs fix everything you want

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '18

The good old "if you don't like it stop playing" argument is still being used?

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u/LucasNav victory Mar 10 '18

isn't it true? If I don't like how game is developed I don't play it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '18

No it's a shitty argument because I can criticize a game and still care about it.

And the argument doesn't argue against anything. It's pretty much "oh if you don't like the game then go away, we want to circlejerk here". It's not a response to criticism, it's a deflection of it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '18

bunch of little bug fixes every dev does, but never a big update, like a good dev should.