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Date: 2014-03-04
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GabeN, what are your specs?	Well, I'm a handsome man with a charming personality.
How do you feel about the Internet's obsession with you?	It's entertaining for my friends.
U/Gl0we asks: SteamOS could potentially be the first commercial Virtual Reality OS - what plans do you have for the future of the platform? How do you want to tackle the harder problems like user input for example? U/remosito asks: What VR experiences are you personally looking forward to the most for Year 1 and 5? Have you personally played the HLVR mod that expands Valve's current VR implementation for Half-Life 2 into a full-fledged experience with body tracking? See this article for a short example of the great work that Wormslayer and adoral84 are putting together with the community's help. Finally - and I guess you get that question a lot - I wanted to ask about the title that everyone is waiting for and that lends itself perfectly for a VR adaption, due to its way of storytelling, the open world as well as the puzzle elements: Ricochet 2. Did the long development time have anything to do with evolving technologies such as Virtual Reality? Are you planning to bring full VR support to future titles, such as Ricochet 2?	1) Abrash was thinking about it for a while, and started to get serious around 2 years ago. He thought that we'd reached the point where VR problems were getting tractable. 2) User input is hard. We haven't seen a solution yet to the problem. It's in the next round of problems to tackle. We need to start doing experience fragments to help drive this.
U/Pingly and druidsbane ask: The vast majority of demos for the Oculus Rift are done with Unity. Does Valve have any plans to turn Source or Source 2 into a more user-friendly development system with a C++ API as well as easy tools and release it early to give VR developers a headstart?	3) Alex Vlachos is working on this now (getting Source 2 working well with VR). Unity is pretty useful for lots of things as well.
Hey guys! Thanks for doing this AMA! What was the strangest/funniest thing you guys received in the mail? - What is your favorite cosmetic item from TF2?	4Chan sent us a crate and offered to sell us a key to open it. We sold it on craigslist.
Hi! First of all, thanks for bringing Steam on Linux. 1) Do you use Linux in your everyday life? If so, what is your distro of choice? 2) Do you think that in the long run Linux will not only be the future of gaming, but also the future of desktop? 3) Is Valve planning to release any exclusive for SteamOS? Thanks in advance for your time!	1) Debian. 2) Probably. 3) No.
What do you think of twitch plays Pokémon?	Very cool. Can't wait for twitch plays Dota 2.
Are you aware that a Redditor has to eat a hat now because you're doing an AMA? Edit: Hat should have to be a fedora.	Post pics or it didn't happen.
Hi, Gabe! I've got a question about Steam Music. Forgive me if this isn't your area, or whatever. Is it possible for some sort of integration with services like Pandora and Spotify, in the future? I don't have a music library, per se, and mostly just use internet radio, so it'd be great if I didn't have to alt tab to change stations or skip songs. Could this happen?	Yes, we've got some things in the works that we think you'll like.
What improvements will we see out of the Source 2 engine?	The biggest improvements will be in increasing productivity of content creation. That focus is driven by the importance we see UGC having going forward. A professional developer at Valve will put up with a lot of pain that won't work if users themselves have to create content.
Why did you choose "Valve" as the company name?	Because it was better than "Rhino Scar"
Is there any specific reason why you're doing this AMA?	To support the fund raising effort we are doing for Seattle Children's Hospital with the Heart of Racing effort.
	Link to theheartofracing.org
What is your favorite non-Valve video game?	Mario 64.
Link to i.imgur.com When is Ricochet 2?	When we announced our products years in advance in the past and then were really late delivering them, it was pretty painful for both us and the community. We'd rather not repeat that.
Dear Gabe, I believe it was the year 2011. The event was Blizzcon in Anaheim, California. I met you, lone, in the lore area while you were browsing through your iPad. I came up and asked for a picture. You seemed particularly perturbed by my asking. But ever since that day, I have yet to shower. Your musk keeps me warm on a cold winter's eve. When is HL3 coming out?	That's a long time not to shower.
Do you ever play games such as tf2 on a secret steam account?	Yes.
You guys are my favorite!! How many hours a week would you say that you spend actually playing video games and whats your current favorite?	Dota 2 and about 20 hours.
I am planning on majoring in Computer Science, and I want to someday work in game development. What do AAA companies look at, other than a degree? Past experiences, etc?	We look for a history of shipping things. There is no substitute for shipping things that make your customers happy.
Hey Gabe. What is your stance on the current government issues both in America and Europe around privacy and internet rights?	A couple of years ago I donated a million dollars to the ACLU.
Can we please get an update on when we are likely to see Counter Strike Global Offensive for Linux?	It's being worked on but we don't have an ETA.
Seeing as you (valve) are now rolling out the steam OS and steam machines will be coming to market soon, what do you think your core target market is, the desktop, pc gamer, or the living room console player?	We see Steam Machines (along with SteamOS and the Steam Controller) as a service update to Steam, porting the experience to a new room in the house. As we've been working on it, we've focused first on the customers who already love Steam and its games. They've told us they're tired of giving up all the stuff they love when they sit in the living room, so it seemed valuable to fix that.
Hey Gabe and friends! Thanks for doing this AMA! If Valve could borrow an IP from another company to make a game for it, what would you guys choose?	Gabe: The Warriors Coomer: Groundhog Day, Heathers Wolpaw: God Hand, Saints Row Ido: Casablanca.
Has Dota 2's growth been unexpected? And where will TI4 be held?	We knew there were a lot of people playing Dota 1, and quite a few of those people worked at Valve, so our hope was that we'd do a good enough job on it that those people would play Dota 2.
	We haven't finalized where this year's International will be. We are pretty sure it will be at Key Arena in Seattle, but we haven't gotten everything finalized, and there is always a risk that our schedules and theirs won't align in some way. As soon as we get everything finalized one way or another, we'll get the dates out there for everyone who would like to attend. Should be fun this year.
Will Kaci return?	Yes.
When did you start collecting knives, and which are your 2 favorite in your collection so far?	Since I was a kid. There are lots of great knife makers working today. Two lesser known ones worth checking out are Kevin Cashen at cashenblades.com, and Elizabeth Loerchner at Link to ecloerchner.com
With the success of Dota2, and then with CS:GO, what do you think is the future for esports on the PC? Also, with micro transactions in the games helping fund prize pots for tournaments, when do you think we will see a tournament fully funded by micro-transactions?	Giving the consumers of content a direct relationship with the creators of content is something we think about a lot. That is what drove our thinking about how the community could be more involved in the tournaments that mattered to them.
Hello! This question is directed to Eric Wolpaw. I'm sure you've had this questioned asked many times, and if that is the case I apologize for repeating the past, but I'm curious as to how the process of writing a game looks like? A brief summary perhaps. How many fresh pots of coffee per hour? Etc.	Wolpaw: It's a lot of loose sketching at first, and then a lot of dot-connecting and backfilling as the game gets closer to being done. Lots of procrastinating, too. Lots.
Did you intentionally give 3:30 minutes notice of your canceled AMA on 3/3 just to torture us?	No.
Have you ever found your interest in videogames waning as you've grown older, or do you continue to enjoy playing games as a hobby as much as you've ever done?	It doesn't seem to be age dependent in my case.
What are your thoughts on Valve making new IP's?	An IP is really a tool for a development team more than anything else. The key is to have clarity around what is uniquely of value in what you are trying to do and not waste your effort on things that don't directly contribute to that.
Are you able to go into any details as to why Valve's VR headset is "lightyears ahead of the original Oculus Dev Kit"?	I'm not sure I'd agree with that. We are collaborating with them, and want their hardware to be great.
Question for Mr. Newell. Was there a point in your life when you considered selling/leaving Valve and get away from gaming industry to do something else?	Not really. I really like the people I work with and being part of the community.
I have had the pleasure of being a part of the Steam community for over ten years. I joined when it all began in September 2003. Looking back to 2003, what were your (and Valves) goals and visions for Steam back then, and did it turn out as planned? Also, What is your vision for the Steam platform and PC gaming over the next ten years?	I'm not trying to dodge the question, but we find it more useful to think in terms of feedback loops than in terms of visions/goals. Iterating with the community means that your near-term objectives change all the time. The key benefit to Steam is to shorten the length of the loop. Longer term, we see that working at the level of individual gamers, where we think of everyone as creating and publishing experience. "How can we make gamers more productive" sounds weird, but is an accurate way to characterize where we're going. It may make more sense if you think of it as "How can we make Dendi more entertaining to more people".
If there was enough community interest, would Valve accept crypto-currency such as dogecoin or bitcoin on Steam?	There are two related issues: one is treating a crypto-currency as another currency type that we support and the broader issue is monetary behaviors of game economies. The first issue is more about crypto-currencies stabilizing as mediums of account.
You are officially on Forbes billionare's list,it must be satisfying to know that you have made that amount of money in your lifetime, but as many billionare's seem to be depressed (or mask it with something like an addiction) Are there any decisions you have regretted outside of your proffesional life?	Opening any link sent to me by EJ.
Hello Gaben how hard was it to promote Steam in 2004?	Any time you do something new, it can be challenging. There's basically a normal distribution of pain. With that proviso, it was pretty much in the middle of the pain curve.
Hello GabeN (if I may call you that), how are you doing? Here's my question: Before Steam Greenlight was introduced, what was the process of adding a game to the Steam store?	We got bottle-necked pretty fast on tools and decision making which lead us to Greenlight, and is now leading us to make Steam a self-publishing system.
How old were you when you start programing?	13.
What was your first language?	ALGOL.
Hey! We haven't heard any more about lower cost Steam Boxes for streaming from existing hardware. Is that something that's still on the agenda?	Yes. We're making some progress.
Has the decision to allow publishers to have their own storefronts and manage their own "stock" gone forward, or was that just an idea being kicked around?	We realized that a store ought to be UGC (not just for publishers).
Hi Gabe. No question, but its my birthday. If you wish me a happy birthday, my life will be complete.	Happy birthday, Bajeezus.

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Every time I go on reddit or tumblr or other sites and notice links to some headlines about either hilariously abusive "innovations" in products to improve sucking money out of people or new ways to make lives worse for workers -- the usual doxxing followed by firing for hatethink or using wearable devices to spy on workers going to the bathroom I get reminded of how the economy is basically stagnant but trying to cover it up.
The 200+ year burst of visible economic growth is either over and about to go into reverse or more optimistically going to a plateau. This isn't a sudden slowdown mind you, for an increasing part of the US's population this process began as early as the 1970s.
Before you respond, note that I specified economic growth not GDP growth. GDP growth is doing just fine for now as the stock market and brisk sales of dragon dildos or games on steam show(This will probably change soon. The big jolt of inflation in things like say meat that I've noticed recently won't be good for either the economy or the GDP.)
No matter what you do short of a literal miracle or a near-miracle involving a mix of HARD work and scientific breakthroughs of the "rewrite laws of physics" level you're not going to bring economic growth back anytime soon.
If we're really lucky we'll get a steady-state post-growth society with a few generations of a rough adjustment to energy depletion, automation, dysgenics and simple governance failure -- people working outside of the system just to live. Think a mix of soviet kitchen gardens plus bitcoin and mass pirating of entertainment(if 3D printing pans out, expect piracy of medicine to become a thing) along with people trying to work for cash under the table.
Conversely on the worst end is things going dark age-ish after series of steep crises handled with unusually poor leadership. I'm not going to elaborate on this much, but think John Michael Greer's "Long Descent" but for more reasons than just the weather getting funny or resource problems.
For what it's worth, I'm somewhere in the middle on this and consider the first to be possible, but something closer to the second to be more likely(that said, like Greer I expect things to go downhill over a century or two).
Before you respond with [x red pill] to fix the economy please consider the following objections:
Putting money into AI? Probably a rathole, and even if it's possible would be impossible to tell from an uploaded human or a human in the next room using an internet connection.
Freeing corporate capitalism with more "deregulation" for the big boys and bailouts when they blow the bank's money on cocaine? Not working. Look at the lack of even a bush-era "jobless recovery" or America's health insurance companies for proof of this. Such fecklessness and lack of basic competence in the helmsmen of many large companies shouldn't surprise you. Read "the iron fish behind the invisible hand" or look at libertarian stuff on the monopolies/cartels governments create not helping matters. I'm not exactly the most free market, but it's clear that an economy that's more organic rather than one stuck on the treadmill of growth and consolidation is less likely to blow up if the growth dries out. Compare Birmingham in the UK which is doing relatively well to any number of rusted out single-industry cities in Britain's north for an example of where this consolidation endsu p getting you.
Expecting people born after 1980 to pick themselves up by their bootstraps and Man up? This one is honestly as much a joke as the idea of trusting in Silicon Valley. Boomers and Xers having the gall to complain about people born after 1980 not succeeding in an environment with 1) much more regulation 2) much harder for people to recover from youthful mistakes(police records are national, facebook, background checks, googling) 3) more barriers to entry with the college cult being the worst is truly sickening. The student loans is the biggest thing, I was lucky enough to come from a family where 1) We could afford to not have the debt issue 2) My older blood relatives might be sometimes annoying but lack the sheer sociopathy we seem to observe for alot of people in the boomers or Xers and were able to help so I lack this issue. I have friends not lucky enough to be able to run afoul of either #1 or #2. At least the ones writing bitchy articles. I hope these people like ending up on the streets or in the rat-filled retirement homes they'll be able to barely afford with the economy staying in the dumps or more likely slowly declining. People who are weebs or fedora-wearing neets or idiot "playa" types are merely responding to these incentives. If you want people born after 1980 to either be able to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, or for the ones not criminally-inclined enough to get EBT cards to reproduce en masse you're going to need to do a fumigation -- a simple housecleaning won't be enough.
Allowing for de facto decline in minimum wages thanks to inflation? It's been done since the Reagan years -- if we'd kept the minimum wage up with inflation it'd be around $20 per hour. Stop trying to compete with China or Mexico -- one will game things to keep wages down the other is just dysfunctional. Globalization in general being crazy merits a rant of it's own.
Immigration? Importing third worlders to do the "jobs americans won't do" in both the picking cotton in fields or STEM major office concubinage does wonders for the "professional" and upper class's standards of living but just adds more pollution and destroys social capital with diversity. This isn't even getting into more controversial and deeply rooted biology issues but that's yet another rant.
Sustainability? This one comes closer and can actually be done by people on a local or community level if you pull it off. Even minor things putting money you'd use for cable/netflix(torrent everything) into solar panels for the roof or learning to cook instead of constantly driving out to pick up takeout or simply either buying less(get a new computer every 4-6 years instead if you must. You won't be able to be current on games but that's not an issue imo) or mostly buying used if possible. I'm not asking you to go back to the land here. It won't really help keep things going, but you will be better-positioned to not just survive but do well if thing start going... poorly. At the very least a bunch of neo-peasants or hipsters makes a less juicy target for Warlords Javon or Jose to rob so muddling through has that advantage.
Trusting in our friends in Silicon Valley? Now this is the most common delusion held by people, the opposite extreme from muddling through like the last one and a good chunk of what provoked this rant being thrust down reddit/tumblr's throat. Trusting the pencil-dicked STEM aspies kind of worked out in the 80s and 90s before they discovered the concept of selling programs as services and apps in a big way since we'd get usable programs and they'd get money, with the occasional extreme success story. The problem is that that changed and now they've discovered apps, DRM, microtransactions and the old AOL/new apple walled garden model to figure out how to milk more money from people in an environment which isn't just zero-sum but negative-sum. On top of the negative-sum environment we have in America legal requirement that the shareholders be treated as royalty. Since corporate shareholders tend to want stable or growing investments this tends to cause 1) increased efforts at monetization 2) focus on sneaking ads by people 3) focus on targeting ads better 4) making everything be locked down so you can't do things like say bypass the ads or if it's a video site do "piracy" and the worst of all 5) UI changes done just to make things look new and to not make the site more usable. The most egregious example of this would be google's sodomization of youtube over the years. Besides just making life worse for people who want to say find anime on youtube, Silicon Valley also creates tools to encourage work environments that resemble 1984 -- think the wearable spy devices mentioned in /darkfuturology to check how long people go to the bathroom as one example of this.