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A more reasonable approach would be for Valve to start by implementing this in one of their own games to begin with.

Not Dota 2 or CSGO because they are too big.

TF2 or L4D2 would be perfect. Big enough to have a meaningful go at it and see how things go but not so big that if it fails it becomes a disaster. TF2 is where they've tested F2P and microtransactions for the first time and most of the last major updates to the game have more or less been outsourced to the community under Valve's supervision and final approval before release. The way that game has operated for years makes it ideal to test this. L4D2 would be equally good for this and could use some love from Valve anyway.

Most importantly though, using one of their own games would make it immensely easier for them to deal with the inevitable clusterfuck of copyrights infringements and other DMCA takedown notice this will create. No need to involve anyone else but themselves before they've got things figured out.

I thought it was pretty easy to see coming actually. This thing is so poorly thought out and implemented even by Valve's standard of the last few years.

Konami is probably done with video games in general at this point. They'll milk MGS for a while and then that will be that.

That AMA is par for the course as far as Valve communication is concerned. He really doesn't answer much of anything. Almost all of the answers are a variation of "We want to make things better" or if asked about a specific issue "We'll figure it out as we go".

You can't run a business as big as Steam is now with close to 10 million concurrent users on good intentions alone.

They're a waste of money that you spend once you've maxed your income with the assassinations/stock market missions. Not much else to it.

It's probably the laziest element they added to the game. I mean you can't even enter most of them. You buy this shiny new thing that does nothing and you can't even at least look at it!

I agree about Brad hosting. He and Jeff are vastly more engaged/entertaining after switching roles.

6 months ago i would have disagreed strongly about Dan though. He was an insufferable dick and i was questioning whether he had parents while growing up to teach him the basics of life and society. It has since been confirmed that he does in fact have at least a dad who's an alright dude.

However it feels like he's since burned through most of his most idiotic and retarded stories and is significantly more tolerable today.

He's still a dick that likes to get a rise out of people and basically acts in a way that would get a regular duder banned on the forum but like any other online trolls he's probably cool in real life and keeps the dickery for the internet.

Now Jason though! He's the real MVP. This guy is great and needs to be on the bombcast and streams full time.

@humanity: It sorta makes him stronger i guess. It's more for his own protection i suppose. Like i said, Batman never really wins 1 on 1. It's more of a case of using every little bit of help he can get to buy himself a few more minutes. And you should totally read at least The Dark Knight Returns. It's fantastic and this trailer as more than a little bit of a TDKR vibe to it. Or you can watch the movie that came out a year or two ago on Bluray, it's pretty good.

@humanity: Batman has that armor on when he fights Superman in The Dark Knight Returns. Regardless, no amount of armor or fancy gadgets ever really made a difference for when the characters faced off. But this is probably not the point of this movie either, the subtitle isn't the most subtle thing in the world.