No? The guy Trojan Horse'd Steam on all of us with Half-Life 2. I actually still have the recording of calling him at home the day Half-Life 2 came out upset that I couldn't play the game because the Steam servers weren't online yet. That was my first introduction to DRM and it tightened my jaws as a gamer.
@hevnet Жыл бұрын
@@nirvwish i had the sheer hate to hild a grudge against something for 20 whole years
@nirv Жыл бұрын
@@hevnet you think there's a defense ever for DRM dude? Answer carefully.
@e4zyphil Жыл бұрын
this dude said answer carefully in a comment section XD
@med5674 Жыл бұрын
It’s truly disappointing that Gabe is the exception and not the rule for how leaders in the industry steer their companies but I am still extremely grateful that a man like him is in charge of the most culturally important company in the industry nonetheless
@coalkingryan881 Жыл бұрын
I just hope the man or woman that follows him when he retires runs the company the same if not better than him and doesn’t just run the company into the ground due to greed
@Jebu91111 ай бұрын
@@coalkingryan881 Its obvious in the future company will be run on AI Gaben 2.0 that will never develop into 3.0
@whiskytangofoxtrot_11 ай бұрын
@@Jebu911 This is an underrated comment lol
@Jebu91111 ай бұрын
@@whiskytangofoxtrot_ thanks Im glad you liked it.
@El.fish.the.chocolate10 ай бұрын
@@Jebu911nah, he would develop from 2.0 to 2.alyx.
@sz27web11 ай бұрын
I feel like Gabe is one of the few major people inside the gaming world, who still after all these years and millions / billions of dollars still has a core, childlike passion for gaming.
@Comicbroe40526 күн бұрын
Yeah. So nice to see
@AhmedMalaki6 күн бұрын
Who knew making games for fun and for love of gaming would make him that successful? Something other companies keep ignoring
@JC-39428 Жыл бұрын
Lord Gaben and his infinite wisdom is not just the father of PC gaming, he IS PC gaming.
@nirv Жыл бұрын
No? The guy Trojan Horse'd Steam on all of us with Half-Life 2. I actually still have the recording of calling him at home the day Half-Life 2 came out upset that I couldn't play the game because the Steam servers weren't online yet. That was my first introduction to DRM and it tightened my jaws as a gamer.
@feritye767 Жыл бұрын
it's so annoying when people say ''no?'' it's so arrogant@@nirv
@nirv Жыл бұрын
@@feritye767 because I'm incredulous that somebody could even conjure up a thought like that
@thataintfalco7106 Жыл бұрын
@@nirvplease stop spamming your same replies under every one else’s comments. It’s incredulous and immature.
@nirv Жыл бұрын
@@thataintfalco7106 you're no gamer. Don't even pretend dude.
@jerosajose Жыл бұрын
I just wish all major companies like Google, Apple, Microsoft and so on, had a CEO like Gabe
@-sleepy- Жыл бұрын
Why? Most of his accomplishments aren't very good for consumers.
@jerosajose Жыл бұрын
@@-sleepy- why? I like steam sales and Valve games, can't say the same about Ubisoft or Activision for example
@-sleepy- Жыл бұрын
@@jerosajose Well in Valve's case, it's hard to not like games that don't exist
@jerosajose Жыл бұрын
@@-sleepy- I don't get your answer, Portal and Counter Strike games are pretty great, and haven't seen anything similar from other companies
@-sleepy- Жыл бұрын
@@jerosajose Those games are old and both of them weren't even originally made by Valve. I like old Valve games like HL2 but my point is they don't even make original games anymore. Their last attempt was Artifact which failed, did you think that one was pretty great? Because most people didn't.
@dimitristsipis48415 ай бұрын
Gabe is a legend. One of the few remaining visionaries in the industry. And one of the few modern companies CEOs who knows what playing videogames is.
@feritye767 Жыл бұрын
he is the reason we have objectively some of the best games of all time, one of the best vr headsets of all time, an entire extremely convenient pc game store and catalogue, AND an incredibly graphically impressive handheld console with a massive catalogue of games.
@lordlopikong69405 ай бұрын
Imagine the next steam deck would probably be thinner and more in par with a Nintendo
@grinmace4834Ай бұрын
@@lordlopikong6940Its gonna be hydro-dynamic, with starboard attachments, and a turbo drive.
@HipurVideos11 ай бұрын
gabe is the godfather of gaming, he creates things that gamers actually want and not just for profit
@xzeraCS9 күн бұрын
proved it to us once again with deadlock valve is truly just getting started
@raphaelokai5981 Жыл бұрын
Gabe created and he's transforming the gaming industry
@UncleRJ4 ай бұрын
There is something inherently funny yet awestruck that GabeN took _just enough_ cut to keep his control over the company. That _0.1%_ is small yet huge at the same time.
@JagoShogun5 ай бұрын
He's a rare beast. IT's from that era are exceptionally intelligent. He has good emotions, ethics, and didn't let anything change him. What surprises me is how he can be so gifted, achieved, and still remain so human.
@Brave_New_Tube4 ай бұрын
I knew Gabe had always been one of the main leaders/decision-makers at Valve, but I had no idea he had a whole-ass 50.1% majority stake in the company. No wonder he’s been able to make Steam and Valve’s other projects as great as they are. He actually puts his money where his mouth is and uses it to stay true to his passion of improving/contributing to the PC gaming community.
@AvoidthevoidxАй бұрын
this man decided to support us linux users, when almost everybody decided that we are not worth the time and effort. even when linux was not this main stream.
@TantalG Жыл бұрын
I use steam deck as my desktop PC, with steam dock, keyboard, mouse and display. This is one the best purchases I've made in my life. I code on it, browse the web, play games like DotA or crusader kings 3. I have also discovered platformers like dead cells thanks to the Deck. GabeN, thank you
@Pooda.Trendy Жыл бұрын
goofy take
@gugvdcftdv2039 Жыл бұрын
literally portable PC
@MK-vi2cm11 ай бұрын
@@Pooda.Trendy how?
@Nakkisampyla9 ай бұрын
Game Boy Color is much better
@chillhour61556 ай бұрын
@@gugvdcftdv2039and what's wrong with that?, have you seen the battery life and price of a decent gaming/work station laptop?
@adamgerald8499 ай бұрын
The first time i used steam was about 16 years ago. My friend was into counter strike and installed it on my PC. Many people had ideas similar to steam, but steam always did it best. My favorite thing has always been the community. Seeing what games my friends are playing, viewing the community page for my favorite games to talk to and share things with people who enjoy the same things as me... its so special. I just ordered my first steam deck. I cant wait. I will support Gaben as much as I can. He understands a company's greatest asset is its customers/users. He even tells people to email him. Im glad hes successful. I worry about what will happen to Valve once he's gone. He looks a lot better and has lost a lot of weight so i hope he has another 40 years in him. I always worry about overweight people when they start getting old.
@bluu2p11 ай бұрын
Gaben didn't also just make a platform and couple of games, in reality he kind of made 50% of the games out. His platform and his influence alone on the gaming industry changed it forever. He single handedly revolutionized our entertainment through video games. Not only that but he also showed the world that gaming had a bigger market than they'd ever thought which also could have been the motivation behind a lot of start up developing of video games (ex. Bethesda, Starbreeze, Respawn Entertainment) that have made a HUGE footprint in the industry and made games we call our childhood. Just a complete W of a human being.
@rowdyjansen81595 ай бұрын
Something HUGE that was not mentioned, ANY pc game you ever bought can be activated on steam as long as it came with a CD-KEY. This is very useful for digitizing games that were released under older windows versions and won't run on newer versions. On PC backwards compatibility is mostly a software problem, not a hardware problem like with consoles (although it's getting better now that consoles are just using the same x86 architecture as PC has been using since 1978)
@Trojance27 күн бұрын
Misinformation
@Lilmations1 Жыл бұрын
For everyone asking why this channel is underrated....this is a second channel to his main channel ...where he talks about programming and languages in general ..
@hayond656 Жыл бұрын
What's the first Channel?
@Lilmations1 Жыл бұрын
@@hayond656 I've forgotten the name ..andrew something I think
@greglane501 Жыл бұрын
This sounds a lot like Aaron Jack to me.
@Lilmations1 Жыл бұрын
@@greglane501 exactly!!
@bosssnurp5912 Жыл бұрын
@@hayond656yo darktanyan pfp is 🔥🔥🔥
@motchers Жыл бұрын
I'm a big fan of Mr. Coomer!
@filiplmao9 ай бұрын
Ah, hello, Gordon!
@whoisspino82178 ай бұрын
@@filiplmaoI knew it when I clicked replies
@jUppers Жыл бұрын
genuinely worried what will become of steam when he passes away
@TobiasLerbak11 ай бұрын
Hopefully his share would go to either his son that also works with gaming, or a trusted partner that can pick up his torch. But lets not talk about his death when he probably still has a lot of years left on his clock, i think we have atleast another good 20 years with this man as the boss.
@dmitriyvasilyev640810 ай бұрын
@@TobiasLerbakI want to be that optimistic but statistically big people tend to die younger. I'm actually surprised he made it over 60.
@mu11668B9 ай бұрын
HL-Alyx do have a significant cultural icon. It came out before metaverse was even a thing, and sent all the metaverse trash back to where they belong to -- the digital junkyard. Even to this day it still holds the golden standard of VR gaming. Valve literally turned an idea everyone thought would have flopped (making it VR-exclusive) into a total win. What a fking legend!
@xyazmayahare9 ай бұрын
The part where you got it wrong or missed is how they run the games in linux. They made a technology called Proton, it's basically a translator, which translates windows api calls such as the ones that are used in directx opengl and so on, and translates to a call that linux understands. It's basically a layer that translates the game in order to run on linux. Fun fact recently apple has been working on a similar technology based in proton called Metal, which has the same idea, translating opengl,directx api calls to the mac environment.
@BroadwayRonMexico9 ай бұрын
Metal isnt a translation layer, it's Apple's proprietary API. They dont want to support Vulkan, and D3D is Microsoft's, so they made their own competing API, and there's no translation layer for it that can work without also running x86 emulation (which has pretty spotty game compatibility) In fact, Apple's plan with Metal is the opposite of improving compatibility. They want to make devs make Mac game versions in Metal so it can be sold in the App Store and they can get the 30% cut from it, rather than Valve (who they've refused to work with on improving library compatibility after the M1 transition), and so that users' game libraries will be tied to the Apple ecosystem rather than be cross-platform like Steam
@imafirenmehlazer15 ай бұрын
Gabe is who we all are inside and strive to do/be and what the pc community embodies most the greed of wanting to move tech in a positive direction not for money or monetary stuff but for advancement of tech and innovation for everyone to enjoy for generations to come he is and always will be the voice, the moral compass that reaches through the void shedding light on the stuff that really matters that is just having fun doing what we love to do and be that is being the meme the legend, one and only true gamer.
@just-some-menace6138 Жыл бұрын
all other gaming companies look like they are just trying to catch up to the trail that Gabe leaves them.
@luminaxar2 ай бұрын
Man I remember beta testing Steam and I hated it because I thought it was just too inconvenient. Now it‘s really the only launcher/store I really use and actually like a lot 😅
@BMofficialvids9 ай бұрын
Half-Life was the first FPS I ever played, and it still is my all-time favorite. Gabe seems like a geniunely good dude, and smart too. May he have a great life!
@maciejos53338 ай бұрын
A Harvard drop out but cant count to 3😔
@SinbadNaiver9 ай бұрын
I have a steam deck and i can say, they ABSOLUTELY NAILED IT.
@4F6D8 ай бұрын
Gabe is literally everything that made gaming good, I'm mostly against worship but this guy is the Messiah of the gaming industry.
@thebyzocker9 ай бұрын
no, not every valve singleplayer game runs on source 2 4:23 the only one you listed there is dota 2
@gorillaman20322 ай бұрын
I think he might've meant "Source too" But Idk
@Steamj27 ай бұрын
Him and hideo kojima are the 2 saviors of gaming
@BreakingRaven5 ай бұрын
and john romero. the holy trio of gaming industry.
@Steamj25 ай бұрын
@@BreakingRaven maybe the Houser twins could fit in there aswell
@RobinCernyMitSuffix Жыл бұрын
SteamOS proprietary? Not really, it's just a distribution of Arch Linux with a bunch of tweaks. Most, if not all of those tweaks are either available from others under the GPL or similar licences, or directly from Valve themselfs. They invest a lot of time and money in to those tweaks and tools, which are pretty much all open source.
@eno67129 ай бұрын
Gave deserves everything hes achieved unlike many .
@juri324 Жыл бұрын
7:33 "Proprietary"? SteamOS is open source. The steam client isn't but the os is.
@partypopper318 Жыл бұрын
Thank you
@CarlosHughes-y1i2 ай бұрын
Who needs religion when you have Lord Gabe? Valve and Gabe Newell are the best thing that ever happened to gaming. His work and his company are far and away the best gaming store, with amazing hits.
@asiancanadian1584 Жыл бұрын
If Gabe Newell ran for president I wold vote for him. Partially because i know he has Everyones best interests in mind but mainly because its Gabe Newell
@jrumbo_6946 Жыл бұрын
Gabe is the most gamer looking man ever and not in a bad way, he looks like he makes custom PC’s and owns and 10 Rtx 4090 graphic cards in his garage
@DPedroBoh4 ай бұрын
Gabe is cool and also Valve, but let's not kid ourselves, they are still a huge company with max profit in mind. It's that because of valve's unique position and modus operandi, they profit by making good products, instead of milking it's fans. I hope they never get investors, when this happens, it's over. I say all that because they've been part of lot's of anti consumer controversies, but still they are one of the best gaming companies out there.
@abderrahimaourirАй бұрын
I'll now add Gabe to Craig from Craigslist as the best billionnaires out there
@XiamJoy Жыл бұрын
One of the best technology chanels
@RandomPothead. Жыл бұрын
channels*
@cheeser694205 ай бұрын
calling half life alyx half life 3 is crazy
@vrostar11 ай бұрын
Thank you Gaben I will continue to blow hundreds of dollars in the Summer Sale only to never play the games I bought, legend!
@WaterontheHillYouTube Жыл бұрын
wait, is that gabe?
@JuanGamer0202 Жыл бұрын
Come on, not every dude with a beard is Gabe
@JamiroquaiEnjoyer11 ай бұрын
"Hi, This is Gabe"
@imadudewithissues5 ай бұрын
@@JamiroquaiEnjoyerAUGHHHHHH
@Saxxy_Mann Жыл бұрын
Gaben on his way to give us a seal and a hat crate just to disappear for another 5 years:
@DivusMagus2 ай бұрын
The 1 in 30 games on steam verified is 1 insanely impressive and also very misleading, games that are "playable" are often just as good as verified but might has a minor issue like no custom control layout or you have to bring the virtual keyboard once to type in a name for the character.
@adamk-paxlogan73309 ай бұрын
Gabe is a legend
@MrAeral11 ай бұрын
Gaben is a walking legend
@HamaIicious Жыл бұрын
Bro legit makes game breaking games that change industry standards just to fuck with the industry
@Mar0var4 ай бұрын
I'm owning a Steam Deck OLED since march and I find it incredible,you don't even need to go outside much to make use of it. It's so chill to just sit on the couch 1hour before you go to bed and chill with your favourite AAA Game,Indie game or some emulated Game. Still there is more when you wan't to use it as a PC in the desktop mode, you can do so many things that you don't even think of when you buy it.
@TheGumiBear Жыл бұрын
8:40 "the complexity of adding anti-cheat systems on linux" made me smile, considering that these anti cheat engines are the most invasive pieces of software that have ever been commercialized. just imagine, back when windows fixed a critical bug that allowed access to ring level 0 of the kernel (full system access) most of these anti cheat engines broke. (meanwhile there exist other workarounds to gain this access, they haven't gotten any less scary.) it's sad these drastic measures are necessary, but i don't even want to play any games with this kind of malware attached to them anymore :P either way, nice video, great roundup on such an important figure of this industry.
@thejustinjustin12332 ай бұрын
I already loved steam and when the deck and deck oled came out, I couldn’t get enough of the amazing portable pc gaming. I love the deals and comfort of being able to play games on my desktop and carry that progress on a handheld if I don’t feel like playing on my main pc. The index blew me away and the deck blew me away even more. I can’t wait to see what the deck 2 looks like.
@jordirapper3 ай бұрын
"They don't miss" Aside from Artifact but we don't talk about Artifact. Not even Valve does.
@Athrel8 ай бұрын
The only reason I ever got into Steam was because of Portal 2. I got the game for PS3 and it came with a code to also get the game on Steam. I've been using Steam ever since.
@M0rshu1 Жыл бұрын
4:10 - “Created by I D software” It’s pronounced “id.” Like the Freudian thing.
@bloodbeats4 ай бұрын
“Every single title being a smash shit”. I love Valve to death, but Artifact.
@bruhSoulz2 ай бұрын
LOVE THIS MAN. TOP 3 TECH WIZARDS ON THE PLANET
@DyoKasparov Жыл бұрын
you missed some important parts and got some of them wrong
@Joepopa1210 ай бұрын
that 500 million in microsoft stock in 1995 would be worth roughly 40 billion today.
@Len_Kagmine7 ай бұрын
Literally doesn't matter, 40 billion and 7 billion are both unlimited amounts of money
@Len_Kagmine7 ай бұрын
Literally doesn't matter, 40 billion and 7 billion are both unlimited amounts of money
@TheSlyhound Жыл бұрын
You just glossed over half life Alex.. probably never even played it. It’s amazing
@MaxKulik9 ай бұрын
The Valve Index was not the "first" steam hardware. The Steam Machine and Steam Controller was the hardware that was released in 2015. You have the correct date but the wrong hardware. The virtual related hardware was not released until 2019.
@kairu_b Жыл бұрын
Is that Gabe Newell?
@xjpanacks Жыл бұрын
Cmon not every dude with beard is....
@opiumlars Жыл бұрын
@@xjpanackshi this is gabe
@xjpanacks Жыл бұрын
@@opiumlars ooh
@Bakedbeans780 Жыл бұрын
Oou nah gaud
@youtubenorthish3242 Жыл бұрын
i'm 45 and going thru depression. Started gaming (again) and I am sleeping like a kid. Are there going to be enough games to keep it up? Steam-so.
@shrippie-42143 ай бұрын
Gabe Newell The Father Of Gaming
@WyvernTyrant11 ай бұрын
i love your clever use of video noise/scratches by turning 2 mirrored images 90 degrees and copy-pasting a repeating loop.
@yeeterscs14575 ай бұрын
Lord gaben is the last hope of true free gaming and enthusiasm. I dont want to know what steam becomes when he retieres.. Long live Gabe Newell
@Kiwoeoe10 ай бұрын
when i die i hope god looks like him
@Mayor_Imad Жыл бұрын
Wow what a great edit, I thought you were going to talk about the future planned as in the Brain computer chips, Nonetheless great video I enjoyed it alot, and man we are really blessed to have GabeN!
@w1ldac3 Жыл бұрын
When I saw this video popping up in my recommended section I thought this channel would have at least over a 100K subs because of how high quality of a video that is. Also great explanations and story on Valve, the editing of this video really catched my eye and I enjoyed it a lot. Thanks, Tech Stories!
@lambdrey Жыл бұрын
4:18 I'TS GOLDSRC!
@joshthemighty7700 Жыл бұрын
I was looking for this comment
@lambdrey Жыл бұрын
@@joshthemighty7700 So was I. Didn't find any. Made it myself.
@thetrustysidekick30134 ай бұрын
Everyone who games on a PC loves Lord Gaben.
@Quettesh2 ай бұрын
Thanks to Steam Deck, gaming on Linux is now possible.
@knockoutxxiii47939 күн бұрын
6:57 GREG COOMER
@bruhSoulz2 ай бұрын
Hes one of the main reasons i can play games on linux :)
@quacxks1009 ай бұрын
How influential do you want to be on pc gaming? how popular? well liked? Gabe: Yes
@RollingAZN9 ай бұрын
6:45 HTC a Japanese developer? My dude... it's a Taiwanese tech corporation.
@jontyb5063Ай бұрын
I FUCKING LOVE GABE NEWELL
@captaintristan11768 ай бұрын
He is the Elon musk in games
@uplinkx11265 ай бұрын
Musk talks. Gabe delivers.
@Man-Apple9 ай бұрын
0:33 YOU DIDN'T INCLUDE TEAM FORTRESS 2 4:24 There ya go
@Deathdemon653 ай бұрын
I fear the day valve falls in the wrong hands
@trollos Жыл бұрын
you could say hes the g-man
@WWIA7062-210 ай бұрын
4:25 we wish they ran on Source 2. The only ones that do are Half Life Alex, and CS2 for my knowlage
@NoName-SEC-B10 ай бұрын
and steam vr home
@HeroOfTheGun-Bullet5 ай бұрын
Im very saddened that this great man is already 62... so we might only have this legend on the living side for 20-35 years... which i hope we do...
@IEatChickenAlmostDaily4 ай бұрын
"G"s end up in prison not runnning companies that the IRS knows about.
@nelsonsham23684 ай бұрын
*Mention of Hollow Knight *Feels Happy *Remember Silksong is still not out *put clown make up
@Shockload4 ай бұрын
8:19 No HL Alyx ≠ HL 3, There was no continuation whatsoever to the story of HL2 EP2, HLA is a prequel to HL2, so it's basically HL 1.5
@thebirdybirdy8 ай бұрын
gaben is a saviour in the gaming industry
@jericteves6126 Жыл бұрын
aside from gifting game, you forgot to add steam community market, where people around can trade/sell in-game items one of the best features steam has that other game portal still don't have.
@KetamineTrip11 ай бұрын
Plus remote play
@orlagh2772 ай бұрын
Hate to nitpick, but Valve do miss sometimes. Everyone seems to have forgotten artifact. They tried to get into hardware with steam machines before they did vr headsets. Steam deck won't have exclusives at least while GabeN is in charge, their whole marketing was that it's basically a portable PC and PC games aren't exclusive to one type of PC.
@Forgotten_soldier200 Жыл бұрын
well i have steam deck, its little bit heavy to hold, but its perfect for gaming because you dont need to buy game to play like XBOX, PS5 and Nintendo switch, if you buy games from steam, you wont need to buy games at steam deck because you buy it from steam.
8 ай бұрын
Gabe is God of Games and Gamers on this realm and beyond.
@BlackSago_8 ай бұрын
Even g’s have barriers and weaknesses 😔
@johnfreeman7444 Жыл бұрын
you dont say id's name as 'eye dee'.
@chasm61610 ай бұрын
Steam is proof, that tech companies need to be led by tech people, not salespeople. You can make a massive profit and not fuck over your partners and customers at every opportunity
@neimenovani7256 Жыл бұрын
Greg Coomer hhahahahhahaha
@koppy824 ай бұрын
It is possible to be a cool and ethical billionaire
@lovisericachii450310 ай бұрын
I don't support valve. I hate monopolies. But I do worship Gaben; our lord and savior 100%.
@wereboarder20098 ай бұрын
I own a Limited Edition deck, and have had my account for 11 years. Weirdly enough my library only consists of a bit over 150 games, about 70 are "deck verified". If I had to guess about 120 of which are still easily playable with a bit of fine tuning. Not to mention emulation. You could say I'm a bit of a fan.
@Laceon13 ай бұрын
The god king, the omnisiah. Must be protected. Our emperor and leader of angels will bring us to the heavens. Praise be, let our faith be burned into the ground and our sins lay bare. Let Newell and his enlightened star be our judge.
@jazzyjswift4 ай бұрын
The day Gabe dies, is the day the industry loses hope.