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Originally Posted by underscore
Aren't a lot of those games put out by other companies through Valve/Steam? And don't they run a lot of shit off the same game engine (ie Source)? That was the way I understand it anyways.
And hasn't it taken Blizzard 16 years to come out with SC2? (forgive me if I'm wrong I'm not a fan). It's not directly support related but c'mon.
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there are very few third-party source engine games, just like valve source games cod4 and mw2 are the same engine with slight upgrades.
Blizzard to this day still releases patches for Diablo 2 (1999) and Starcraft (1998).
Valve developed Online GAMES- Counter Strike (1999 - 4 updates in 09, half-life1 engine updates in 2008 for 10+ y/o engine)
- Counter Strike Source (2004 - latest update in august)
- Team Fortress 2 (2007 - 20 updates since APRIL, multiple free content updates this year)
- Left 4 Dead PC(2008 -20 updates since March, free campaign released)
meanwhile Valve is also developing HL 2: Episode 3, has released Left 4 Dead 2 this week.
my point was valve an independent studio with a staff of 250, runs STEAM, develops new games, and supplies regular updates for their games that came out years ago.
i'm just saying I'd like to see some support if I'm going to buy a game, IW released like 6 patches for CoD4 and one free mappack (not even free, sponsored by nvidia,that had reskinned-renamed maps from previous CoDs).
this shit is turning into madden.