Valve has announced that it has acquired the developers behind the single-player first-person ‘walking simulator’, Firewatch. The twelve people of Campo Santo will join Valve and will keep working on video-games. The team will continue supporting Firewatch and will keep working on its upcoming title, In the Valley of Gods.
As Campo Santo stated:
“We had a series of long conversations with the people at Valve and everyone shared the satisfaction we take in working with people whose talents dwarf our own to make things we never thought possible. Both sides spoke about our values and how, when you get right down to it, we, as human beings, are hard-limited by the time we have left when it comes to making the things we care about and believe in. They asked us if we’d all be interested in coming up to Bellevue and doing that there and we said yes.”
Interestingly enough, Valve’s Gabe Newell stated last month that Valve is back to making and shipping games. I guess this is what Gabe meant back then. Let’s just hope that Valve is also working on other ideas and projects though, other than Artifact and some VR games!
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Oh good, more SJWs in Valve.
Hopefully Valve will make it clear which products said individuals are working on so we know not to buy them.
Wonderful, now we can expect politicized gatekeeping in the biggest PC distribution platform, as if things weren’t already sh*t enough.
Let’s be honest, it won’t happen. Last time someone tried (Hatred) Gabe himself stepped in and allowed them to stay on Greenlight.
Gabe might be a god but wont live forever.
Cry some more, your tears are delicious.
Know your place Edwin Obando Chacon, your in the minority, so sit quietly in the corner unless spoken to by actual Humans, LibTard f?lth.
OH YEA?
LET ME TURN ON GRAMMAR CORRECT AND COPY PASTE YOUR POST
” people can seperate themselves from their pollitical views to make logical critical statements, and should actually do so, often at that.”
seperate? You mean separate? Pollitical? You mean political?
YOU OWNED YOUR SELF BRO!!!
Sorry, you’re cheering for these walking simulator devs who tried to get attention via frivolous DMCAs against PewDiePie for what reason, exactly? Were you in the credits next to Anita’s name?
The only crying will be from Campo Santo when they realise that Gordon Freeman is a white male.
What the hell???
Valve bought them so they stop making games lmao
Basically what i thought at first too.
Hmm, perhaps that is for the best.
So they can have more people working on Steam tech support team! 😛
but why though?
And the downward spiral continues. I genuinely cannot understand how a studio that’s only made a single game, in the worst genre of (non)gaming, has garnered so much attention and praise from people within the industry. If you want a talented developer, why not buy Studio MDHR or Team Cherry? Then again, I’m happy they didn’t considering Valve’s own demise.
TO BE FAIR, of all the walking sims this is the best one…that doesnt say much, its like saying your turd tastes better than mine.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a million times better than Firewatch.
It’s big and open enough that you can actually explore, you can tackle various areas in any order you like, it’s more intriguing and doesn’t sh*t the bed in the ending, it has far, FAR better graphics and music, etc.
“Calling walking simulators the “Worst Genre” implies that you’re stating a fact.”
It is a fact, they are the least “gamey” games out there and take the least amount of effort. No gameplay mechanics, no combat, no ai, no need to even have believable character models. Making a walking sim is easy, get yourself unity and make some decent looking levels, heck you dont even need to make good looking levels, you can make something like kairo.
” Plenty of amazing games in the genre, ”
pffffft hahahahhaha
“but very few are exceptional, unique or noteworthy, ”
AHAHHAHA YEAH YOU “EXCEPTIONALLY” PRESS W AND WALK FORWARD….HAHAHAHAHAHHAAHA
“Visual novels are games, point and click adventures are games.
Whether they are less of a game than what you prefer is simply a matter
of taste and opinion.”
Do you know why people buy so many open world games? Content and content needs interaction which causes variety and replay ability. So no the less of a “game” something is the worse it is. Even telltales games who have more gameplay than walking sims have been getting subpar ratings and sales lately.
“it’s obvious you’re not exactly well-versed or educated in how a massive studio like Valve works”
Actually we kinda are, valve doesnt work, they sit on their as s and make money from steam. Whiuch is why people pointed out that they wont be making games now that valve bought them.
“You’re just a consumer, you’re not exactly as important to them as you’d like to think. Because you’re still gonna buy games on their platform, they’re still gonna get your money.”
Neither is this tiny studio important. I wouldnt buy them, valve buying them wont do anything for them. Waste of their time.
The earth is round, that’s a fact. There’s plenty of people who say otherwise. Not saying that your point is wrong, but it’s a pretty weak argument to say that “If something were a fact, there wouldn’t be people out there to disagree with the notion”.
“Well, because Firewatch is actually a great narrative adventure.
Calling walking simulators the “Worst Genre” implies that you’re stating a fact. Which simply isn’t the case.”
Calling a game “a great narrative adventure” implies that you’re stating a fact. Which simply isn’t the case.
Gross.
Left4walking…
CS: GO Slowly
Cut the crap clown, any dev that abuses the dmca to silence a youtuber he doenst like must be boycotted. They said specifically that youtubers can stream their game and monetize it. THEY SAID IT, THEY EVEN MADE A PICTURE AND SHOWED IT TO PEOPLE SAYING THEY ARE OK WITH EM.
Then pewds happen to say something stupid and they tried to destroy him by abusing the DMCA to stop him from making videos and the ceo said that he will speak to other devs to do the same and do it to other channels too.
IS THIS THE POWER YOU WANT TO GIVE TO CORPORATIONS? Or the nonsense that overwatch is doing, banning people for jokes in social media among friends.
So wtf you talking about? Its THEM who cant “:cannot comprehend that people can seperate themselves from their pollitical views to make logical critical statements, and should actually do so, often at that”
IDIOT
My issue with this is that they had relased games DRM free and now I can kiss that godbye.
Cool can’t wait for VR, Cards, Online & Battle-Royale stuff… Valve is on the right way.
Uhh it says so in the article…
Ah, a horseshoe theory enthusiast. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8f6e034cdf270e6ff0c4b4aeb885a4ffc65919215003ee9f083d227a7348fc95.jpg
That’d be you.