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    So the SitRep is lots of people are losing their jobs and all some people can say is "take that for making your game slow!"

    Unbelievably petty.
    May 06, 2009 5:18pm PDT
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    So the SitRep is lots of people are losing their jobs and all some people can say is "take that for makin... : greasyjohn

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      They kind of deserved it. : aggressorThis person is cool!
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        The lowly developers, who probably had nothing to do with the asinine executive decisions that led to thi... : kevlarcardhouse
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          They knew the situation well before this\last year. They had plenty of time to get jobs at places where t... : aggressorThis person is cool!
          • Oh, it's so easy, then. Well, that's a relief. It's not like other places are suffering massive layof... : EbuThis person is cool!
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      No, they really didn't. Developers delay games all the time. When Valve released TF2 after over a decade ... : greasyjohn
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        The key difference is that Valve eventually put something out. : aggressorThis person is cool!
        • Oh, and it's not like they were JUST developing TF2 for 10 years. They had plenty of other shit going on. : aggressorThis person is cool!
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        No one things TF2 was worth the wait. It was a great game, though,a nd Valve has released a ton of game... : batkiwiThis person is cool!
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          No one? I do. I've never sunk more hours into any other multiplayer FPS. : SFtheWolf
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            But do you think it was worth waiting 10 years for, or did you go and play other games in the mean time? ... : batkiwiThis person is cool!
            • It would have been a worse game, because they hadn't refined the gameplay and style to the point it relea... : SFtheWolf
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            Ahhh, you're 22. You were 12 when TFC came out. : batkiwiThis person is cool!
            • im 33 soon to be 34. played qwtf. played tfc. played q3f. played unreal fortress. tf2 was definatly worth... : italiano3d
      • Valve wasn't working on TF2 solely for 10 years though. They put out HL2 and a variety of other releases... : deathofratsThis person is cool!
      • But TF2 wasn't a constant 10 year dedication. They stopped for some time to work on HL2 and so on and the... : Godhatesfatpeople
    • Yup, some people are just douchebags unfortunately. I mean who cares that people are losing their jobs an... : ColoradoCNC
    • Well yea duh, 15 years in development, what do you think? I mean THINK about it for a second, this was b... : ev0ljonThis person is cool!