Valve distances themselves from PS3 development
by Dustin Burg 
{ May 5th 2008 at 1:00PM }
Chatting with CVG at a recent Left 4 Dead preview event, Valve's Doug Lombardi was blatantly honest about why they aren't planning a PS3 version of the game, saying that "we're not PS3 developers - we're doing PC and 360 like with Orange Box." Zing! Lombardi explained that "EA came to us and said 'wow, Orange box was an incredible project, can we do a PS3 version?'", so that's why a (craptacular) PS3 version was created without Valve's magic touch. Though, it's still possible we'll see Left 4 Dead on the PS3 if it becomes a huge hit on the 360 and PC, just don't expect Valve to be involved ... mwahahahaha!
[Via NeoGAF]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
gamerismyname @ May 5th 2008 1:08PM
hmmm.. considering i played Orange Box on xbox, and i thought the game still sucked.. i dont care much for valve anyway. But how is this a PS3 diss anyway.. they just say they develop for PC and 360; some developers prefer PS3. It makes sense considering PC's and 360 are Microsoft based/made; it would be easier for them just to make for those two because its similar.. this is garbage, much like valve!!! hopefully the new game is fun
a14carlos @ May 5th 2008 1:13PM
ur a buzz kill
Phocas @ May 5th 2008 1:26PM
Valve is garbage? They are one of the most respected developers in the industry! The Orange Box was fantastic. You sound like a foolish troll.
Biscuit @ May 5th 2008 1:42PM
God forbid people have different tastes.
Mr.ESC @ May 5th 2008 2:42PM
Lol Troll with his panties in a bunch.
Magget!
You are a magget hatched from a magget mutant egg.
Mikezula @ May 5th 2008 3:08PM
It's spelled "maggot".
I don't think Valve is garbage.
But I think you have a point in something: this Valve guy didn't sound like he was even trying to diss the PS3. He's just clarifying what his preferred platforms are.
Grimm @ May 5th 2008 4:11PM
It's normal for people to have different tastes but he's still wrong. I don't necessarily like Half-Life but I know that it's amazingly developed and one of the best games ever made. This dude is probably some gay Sony fanboy who's pissed cause he still doesn't have MGS4.
JerkfacedFed @ May 6th 2008 2:05AM
youre clearly a ps3 loser with the fake "oh yea i played this on the 360" get the hell out of here.
valve is one of the best developers out there, go buy some more gran turismo demos
Ysleiro @ May 6th 2008 1:20PM
Yeah HEY GUYS !!
You didn't know that the Studio behind the highest rated PC game EVER is trash ?
Yeah you didn't did you guys? me neither..
Apparently this guy here knows something we don't. Freaking Looser.
Knoxin @ May 5th 2008 1:16PM
Sorry but Valve Are lazy developers they do not wish to learn the architecture PS3,look at how long it took for half life 2.
I am sorry but Valve want a easy ride to making cash, So Gabe can buy more chicken farms for his eating disorder
Both console are good but they both should get credit for the diffrence's they bring to the market.
Fox318 @ May 5th 2008 1:17PM
GB2 ps3 fanboy.
Tony @ May 5th 2008 1:30PM
This post is pretty clear that Valve wasn't even responsible for the PS3 version of HL2. Another team handled it. So I'm not sure how the game proves that they're lazy.
Bennyishere @ May 5th 2008 1:40PM
I don't care if you're a PS3 troll, just stop saying you are "sorry". That's so fucking annoying.
ZEBRA NINER @ May 5th 2008 1:51PM
Sorry, but I'm sorry you are sorry. So, sorry that we are sorry, but I'm sorry. Sorry? ;)
Matt @ May 5th 2008 4:50PM
Lazy? Seriously. Because he doesn't think it's worth his time and money to basically start development over again to bring it to a third console that makes them lazy?
Also, if Valve was really only in it for the money, why take all of the profits (also known as MONEY) and put it towards making the sequel then work for six years making sure it's up to your own high standards?! If they wanted to cash in they wouldn't have taken so long to release the game. That's what CASHING IN is!!
Your points contradict themselves. "They took so long to release half life 2 because they are lazy" and "they just want a QUICK buck" don't line up. Think before you type.
For example, when I say you are a lazy typist, I have proof! Missing spaces and punctuation, unnecessary capitalization and missing capitalization, run on sentences and spelling errors all tell me that you are too lazy to go back and check what you've typed.
Normally I wouldn't care or bother to comment on something so inane. But if you're saying that Valve is "lazy" for not sinking their hard earned money and time into learning a whole different hardware platform, then I'm calling you lazy for not taking five damn seconds to re-read your own post.
There.
Mikezula @ May 5th 2008 1:22PM
Way to start a pointless flame war, dumbass.
TORO @ May 5th 2008 1:53PM
PS3 suks go to ur site
Mikezula @ May 5th 2008 3:05PM
I stand corrected.
Not only does it start a flame war. It also brings out idiots like these.
I have all three consoles. All three have merits. I'm getting kind of sick of people trying to get at each other's necks because of their preferences.
Fanboyism is old hat.
TORO @ May 5th 2008 3:21PM
When you call our fellow Dustin Burg a dumbass, then be prepared to be flamed by ME.
I didn't ask you which consoles you have so I don't give a shit. You post more on PS3fanboy, and I only made a suggestion to go back to your hole.
The only idiot here is you who comes back for more.
Mikezula @ May 5th 2008 3:26PM
Nice tie!
You talk like you own this site, man. And I'm sorry I insulted your boyfriend. I guess I'm not a fan of people who instigate pointless "mine is better than yours" crap.
john paul @ May 5th 2008 3:37PM
@mikesula
were a family, not "boyfriends"
and we support each other and curse the fuck out of someone who tries to mess with our hermanos :)
Mikezula @ May 5th 2008 3:43PM
FINE. Fine.
I'm SORRY I called your "family member" a dumbass. Happy?
But "stories" like this are made for one thing: flaming. Which in my book is kinda...what's the word...sad. Unnecessary. Childish. Take your pick.
Mikezula @ May 5th 2008 3:45PM
Then again, it DOES generate a lot of traffic to this site.
Dustin Burg @ May 5th 2008 4:02PM
Mikezula, you need to smile more.
Mikezula @ May 5th 2008 4:14PM
WOO!!! The Dustin himself!
I said sorry, did I not? Nothing but smiles from here to merry old England.
But your interpretation of this story is still tad bit harsh. Which is probably why it garnered an equally and admittedly harsh reaction from me.
john paul @ May 5th 2008 5:25PM
This is xbox360fanboy.com
not unbiasedboringvideogamenews.com
I doubt he would write this kind of post if he wrote it for joystiq, ign etc.
ZEBRA NINER @ May 5th 2008 6:47PM
Oh, he's English guys. That explains it.
Knoxin @ May 5th 2008 1:39PM
It never shocks me when you make a contructive criticism, you always get somebody saying fanboy because the can not give to a constructive conversation.
Look simple fact is there have to sell this game Vavle always diss the PS3 i can link to other companys dissing the 360 its simple make noise free publicty for there game = more sales
qbix @ May 5th 2008 1:58PM
How do you expect us to have a "constructive conversation" when you start with "Valve want a easy ride to making cash, So Gabe can buy more chicken farms for his eating disorder". First of all, it would help to write sentences correctly, and it would really help if you kept the personal attacks to yourself.
It's hard to take you seriously, so stop trolling this site. Valve is a respected developers and we, 360 owners and fans love the fact that they prefer to develop for our console of choice.
xFenixKnightx @ May 5th 2008 1:37PM
Valve + 360 = WIN
emaxximus @ May 5th 2008 1:59PM
Whats funny is that the PS3 in the picture still works better than your pristine 360 with RRoD!
I'm joking... don't have a cow man.
Muffin_man @ May 5th 2008 2:25PM
At least Microsoft offers free repair for system failures unlike Sony who charge for repairs.
GRT @ May 5th 2008 3:18PM
That's funny, it cost me $100 to get my XBox repaired. Free repairs *only* for RRoD. Everything else costs $100.
Mikezula @ May 5th 2008 3:35PM
Bu-du-dum-TSSSS!!!!
Zeus.:God @ May 5th 2008 3:58PM
Emaxximus, you wouldn't happen to have a Traxxas E-Maxx, would you? My T-Maxx and Savage will stomp it. NOOB!
No, just kidding.
Knoxin @ May 5th 2008 2:22PM
look i put on my views, and my feelings about vavle my thoughts.
i thought you could do that on this site but instead what you get called a troll, a ps3 fanboy because my views are not the same as yours. whats the point of having a comments section because i think outside the borg. :/
who said i was't a 360 owner ????
also please tell me who does't want a easy ride to make cash ?????
mattclarkie @ May 5th 2008 2:23PM
I still have the Orange Box un-played on my 360 to do list. I just don't know where to start with it, too many games in one box.
I have to slightly agree that the reason maybe they don't want to bother learning the PS3, but as they said they are only 150 people, and they would prefer to make good games, than many poor games. The number of games that are ruined because Developers try to develop for too many consoles, too quickly is too long to count.
As long as Valve don't say that "The PS3 is crap and we wont touch it with a pole", I am fine with it, I own a 360 anyhoo.
Kabapu @ May 5th 2008 2:25PM
So ... their "blatant honesty" about why they're not developing for the PS3 is because they don't understand its architecture and how to program for it ... ?
I don't really see how that's a burn, especially one deserving of a "zing."
Explain to me again why they're so respected?
Ysleiro @ May 6th 2008 1:42PM
Because their tittles.
Half-Life is second highest rated PC Game EVER.
Second only to...... drum roll please....
You guessed it Half-Life 2.
Thats why they are respected. Learn your shit homie.
Chris @ May 5th 2008 2:24PM
This article is way below the belt. I only saw it because I followed a link from PS3F. I wish I hadn't. All I can really say is, I'm glad I'm not one of you.
wa27 @ May 5th 2008 2:29PM
We're commending them for making a crappy port to the PS3?
halfbakednz @ May 5th 2008 2:49PM
No, your commending them for NOT making a crappy port to the ps3.
I guess, if you cant. then dont. better no ps3 release than something people are going to bitch about being sub par especially with another version to compare it to.
I dont really see how they openly dis the ps3 though, "were not ps3 developers" is more a digg against themselves and their ability than the ps3 itself....
wa27 @ May 5th 2008 2:53PM
I was referring to the first sentence in the post:
"Big Xbox 360 fanboy brownie points goes to developer Valve, not only for giving the 360 a superior version of the Orange Box[....]"
Basically saying "hi-five to valve for making a crappy ps3 port"
halfbakednz @ May 5th 2008 2:57PM
Dont they go on to say that it was EA that made the port and not them? So in turn Valve didnt make the crappy port nor will they make anything else for the ps3...
Shouldnt we be commending them on what they do do and not what they cant/dont?
Dick @ May 5th 2008 3:39PM
you're an idiot; EA made the PS3 Port, ass hat.
wa27 @ May 5th 2008 3:58PM
Developed by EA, but Valve still put their name on the shitty port and pushed the sale of it. It doesn't fare well for the reputation of Valve in many consumers' eyes.
Read the post by Sean, I agree with him.
Sean @ May 5th 2008 2:38PM
Well at least they can admit it. I give them props for basically saying they don't want to take the effort and time to develop on a third platform because they have no experience. So many companies hide behind marketing statements trying not to offend anyone.
They should, however, be responsible for ensuring the quality of the port. I mean people who have a bad experience with their game are not going to blame the developers who port the game but the designers of the game whose name is emblazoned on the cover. That affects future sales and the reputation of your company.
I bought it for the 360 and when I saw it on my friend’s PS3, I was appalled. Games (or any software) should not ship with bugs that glaring. EA probably needed the game out for a certain quarter’s revenue numbers and decided to ship anyway. Pathetic…
Mr Ed @ May 5th 2008 2:46PM
What a bunch of fuc king retards you are..
Orange Box on PS3 was not "craptacular", not as good as the 360 version, granted, but still a 9/10 game.
TORO @ May 5th 2008 2:48PM
It scored a craptacular on Bungie.net
halfbaked{NZ} @ May 5th 2008 3:00PM
You sir are best described by your opening sentence, take your dribble elsewhere, we are tryna have a constructive conversation - something that seems well out of your skillset