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It still makes me uneasy that my hundreds of Steam games can't be passed on when I die, at least not without violating the EULA
Will power (But can you really violate a EULA from beyond the grave?)
How a Microsoft exec managed to pitch Microsoft Word through the genius tactic of being able to actually use it in a 'type-off' demanded by clients: 'I was the only one who'd actually been a secretary'
News "And the Microsoft guy… I can see the look on his face when they ask for that."
Former Valve exec says the company struggled to sell Half-Life until coming up with the ultimate 'one simple trick' of marketing manoeuvres: slapping a 'Game of the Year' sticker on the box
News "Okay, so you've done the game. Now what happens?"
Gabe Newell's cult of personality is intense, but a Valve exec who worked with him says his superpower is how he 'delighted in people on the team just being really good at what they did'
News It's kind of a team fortress, too.
One of Valve's original executives shares a very simple secret to its success: 'You can't use up your credibility' by trying to make bad games work
News "If you're in this industry, people have to trust you."
Gabe Newell had his eyes on a social network in the '90s that 'was not in a games context at all'—meaning Valve-owned social media could've been a very real thing
News "It probably wouldn't have looked anything like Facebook."
Gabe Newell is hooked on Stalker 2 and once he's got the fourth ending (!) will 'figure out what I'm going to play next'
News Taking a break from buying megayachts.
Valve's DRM was inspired by an exec's nephew, who 'used a $500 check I'd sent him for school expenses and bought himself a CD-ROM replicator… he sent me a lovely thank you note'
News "I knew he wasn't a bad kid, but there'd been this generational shift."
