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Reminds me of what Gabe Newell said about piracy: It's not a pricing issue, but a service issue.

An interesting anecdote from Gabe Newell in the reddit thread: So far the paid mods have generated $10K total.

That's true, but Gabe came out and made a point stating that Valve as a whole didn't support that decision.

Read on how Valve handled Jeri Ellsworth and her hardware team, they were all fired with no notice by Gabe himself.

Companies are required to have a CEO, as (famously) Gabe Newell does.

In fact I even asked Gabe Newell about whether the use of this program might falsely trigger some anti-cheat mechanism within Steam.

The thing is: Gabe Newell put his personal e-mail account on some games (I remember seeing it in HL2), and promised to read all those he can, even if he does not reply...

Some people think it's the most offensive game of all time and should be banned, but Gabe himself came out and said that that's no reason to pull the game.

He was hardly the only one thinking that way - I remember Gabe Newell being scathing about multicore/multiprocessing when the PS3 and Xbox 360 were released.

Jack Dorsey, Bill Gates, Drew Houston, Tony Hsieh and Gabe Newell and Mark Zuckerberg aren't throwing their name and money at learn to code charities out of the goodness of their heart.

According to Gabe Aul's tweet [1] it looks like they do associate the device id/hardware hash so there is no need for a product key when doing a clean install once upgraded.

Does a general consensus build among some of the people who've been there longer and they start plotting your downfall behind your back, take it to Gabe Newell and then you're out the door?

I believe Gabe Newell said it best "You can't lie on reddit".

The irony of a hierarchical structure spontaneously forming in Gabe Newell’s company after he has spoken so strongly about the problems of “command-and-control type hierarchical systems” is delicious.

Gabe said that just the additional email they received over a few days cost them a million: "That's like 1% of the cost of the incremental email the program has generated for Valve employees (yes, I mean pissing off the Internet costs you a million bucks in just a couple of days)." That seemed preposterous to me.

-Mods that depend on other mods -Mod dependencies being removed from Nexus and changed to paid mods on Steam -Mods stealing work from other mods If you read Gabe's responses he starts poking at the "Wow wow wow, why is this bad?" and learns a few things.

Gabe has acknowledged how horrible the customer support is and they are, supposedly, working on a solution.

Gabe let Jeri take the AR stuff when that happened.

Gabe, This sounds like a really interesting and challenging project.