Today, we have an exciting update: Duncan and Paul, alongside many other talented members at Hopoo Games, will now be working on game development directly at @valvesoftware
Excuse the overdramatization, but it feels a lot like Frodo going to the Grey Havens. They did something great and now their reward is to disappear forever and be well taken care of.
So they sold thier game to one publisher, and then left to work for a different dev?
Pretty much. They said they were done with RoR (the sequel was already ambitious, they don’t want to be stuck with the series forever) and the payout for the IP was probably worth it to keep the studio financially flexible. Joining Valve is a no-brainer imo
Oh yeah you’d be dumb to pass up working there. I totally understand not wanting to work on the same game forever.
Good for them, imo. I just think it’s funny they “played both sides” so to speak.
Fuck, one of the best roguelikes destroyed
I didn’t know Valve still made games 😄.
Err…
Would be interesting, though I don’t imagine they’d do that - Deadlock is pretty far along (despite the “early development” tag) and they seem like they have a full dev team.
Valve seems to hire teams for new projects (such as Portal and Left 4 dead) so I’d be really interested to see if they’re doing something new
They seem to be getting back into it.
There was Alyx, at first. But today there’s Deadlock, two more rumoured games, and now this?
welp, glad I never bought Risk of Rain or Risk of Rain 2 then.
Despite that, I’ve heard from friends there’s been some major changes since the sale… and they’re not good.
Not live service, but an update broke a lot of stuff and people aren’t too happy about it.
That’s the DLC for RoR2 that came out like 4 days ago - it’ll get fixed.
That doesn’t change RoR or RoR Remaster - plus… having been playing RoR2 Seekers of the Storm, I feel like people are being a little too sweaty - seems rather fine imo
Oh I do play it regularly as well but I would never let a minor setback like this to gate me from one of my favourite games.
You can download old depots from Steam and even keep games from updating. Very useful if you want to try outdated mods or prevent devs like Beat Games from forcing monthly updates on you.
Not really excusing Gearbox since I like to think that I’m sane but the game is really good. They really should’ve released the update as a beta first.
