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Up to 25 people fired from Valve

Postby ScarT on Wed Feb 13, 2013 8:44 pm

Something is happening at Valve :o

Jason Holtman has left Valve, Develop understands.
A reliable source has told us Valve's director of business has departed the company, although it is currently unclear as to the reasons for his exit.


In early 2012 Ellsworth was hired by Valve Corporation (along with several other notable hardware hackers) to work on gaming hardware. Ellsworth was fired the following year.


Jason Holtman, director of business
Jeri Ellsworth, hardware division
Moby Francke, the art lead of TF2
Bay Raitt, lead of SFM
Tom Leonard, L4D & HL2 AI
Elan Ruskin, engine programming
Realm Lovejoy, artist on almost everything between HL2:EP1 to Portal 2
Keith Huggins, SFX artist
Marc Nagel, testing lead
Matthew Russell, animator


http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/1865 ... RvTCaj_nXE
http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/13/39833 ... m-box-game
http://www.develop-online.net/news/4326 ... aves-Valve
http://www.gamezone.com/products/gear-g ... ware-staff
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Re: Up to 25 people fired from Valve

Postby no00dylan on Wed Feb 13, 2013 8:51 pm

What is going on?
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Re: Up to 25 people fired from Valve

Postby Dr. Delta on Wed Feb 13, 2013 8:55 pm

Nah man. SFM, TF2 and Steambox are finished. So people move(d) on.
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Re: Up to 25 people fired from Valve

Postby skoften on Wed Feb 13, 2013 8:56 pm

Don't care. They haven't improved the Source SDK yet and they also haven't shown anything HL3 related up to now. I don't care that 30 unimportant people may or may not have left the company.
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Re: Up to 25 people fired from Valve

Postby no00dylan on Wed Feb 13, 2013 9:02 pm

Bay Raitt isn't unimportant! You take that back!
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Re: Up to 25 people fired from Valve

Postby skoften on Wed Feb 13, 2013 9:06 pm

With the exception of Bay Raitt!









not really, had my fingers crossed =]
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Re: Up to 25 people fired from Valve

Postby ScarT on Wed Feb 13, 2013 9:07 pm

Updated the original post with a list of people that seems to be gone.
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Re: Up to 25 people fired from Valve

Postby Jangalomph on Wed Feb 13, 2013 9:12 pm

Beat me to this post. I wonder whats going on? I JUST read the valve handbook an hour ago saying "we've never fired any one, mistakes happen."
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Re: Up to 25 people fired from Valve

Postby ScarT on Wed Feb 13, 2013 9:14 pm

There's some guesses that Valve and Steam is being split into separate companies. Others are saying Microsoft is buying Valve.

The splitting seems most likely to me, but it could be something completely different.
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Re: Up to 25 people fired from Valve

Postby skoften on Wed Feb 13, 2013 9:15 pm

this shows who left Valve

from ad_hominem

edit: oh, SparT beat me to it.
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Re: Up to 25 people fired from Valve

Postby Jangalomph on Wed Feb 13, 2013 9:48 pm

LOL valve would never sell out.
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Re: Up to 25 people fired from Valve

Postby cra0kalo on Wed Feb 13, 2013 10:04 pm

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Re: Up to 25 people fired from Valve

Postby ScarT on Wed Feb 13, 2013 10:06 pm

They're not allowed to talk about it.
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Re: Up to 25 people fired from Valve

Postby source-maps on Wed Feb 13, 2013 10:16 pm

jangalomph wrote:LOL valve would never sell out.


Valve is a cool company.. but they're not gods.. you think they added pink paint to tf2 and thought.. hmm this will go well with the art style.. no, they thought.. hmm this will fill our bank accounts quickly.

in return we get years of fun from a game that was in a cheap box with 5 amazing games, getting your moneys worth, but lets be real here.. dollars are dollars.

tho, in this case.. the 25 people who got 'fired' probably has a more rational, less exciting reason.
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Re: Up to 25 people fired from Valve

Postby Jangalomph on Wed Feb 13, 2013 11:41 pm

Well, they may be in it for money, but they are in it for money for everyone too. Back on topic. WHY OH WHY WERE THEY FIRED.
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