Gabe will be flying to Australia

[Blink]

Remember the story about the community member attempting to raise the money for flights, so that he could fly Gabe over to play his mod? Well, he has succeeded:

Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Half-Life and Counter-Strike) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced its studio co-founder and president, Gabe Newell, will be visiting Australia next week to meet local game designer Joe W-A, who raised over $3000 for Newell's visit through the gaming community.

The fundraising began after Joe heard that Newell had recently flown the leaders of a gaming community group boycotting Valve's upcoming Left 4 Dead 2 to Valve's Seattle, WA headquarters. Joe emailed to ask if Newell would fly him to Seattle so Joe could show him his "mod" (a PC gaming term for modifying an existing game into something new).

Newell playfully replied that he wouldn't fly Joe to Seattle because he was "boycotting" Joe's mod. The Australian-based game designer appealed to the game community for $3,000-the funds necessary to fly Newell halfway around the world-and raised the money in less than 48 hours.

"The power of the gaming community and their ability to rally around a cause - be it serious or fun in nature - is amazing," said Gabe Newell, president and co-founder of Valve. "In 2003, the community helped the FBI and European law enforcement officials find the people who stole the Half-Life 2 source code. This year, the community is putting me on a plane to the other side of the world to meet Joe W-A and see his MOD. It's going to be a fun trip."

Newell and Joe will meet in Australia next week. Reports of the trip will be posted on L4D.com's blog section by Valve employee Erik Johnson, who will be traveling with Newell down under.

Let's hope his mod is up to scratch!

[Phott]

This is getting tragically hilarious.

Are there any pics out of this guys mod or any kind of info?

[cashed]

I wonder if he's going there to lobby for L4D2 as well *cough*

[1447]

Just saw the Steam update, what a fucking win.

[no00dylan]

Erik Johnson, who will be traveling with Newell down under.

O.o

[Mess]

Ifaik it's La Cabra and his L4D campaign... you can see screens for it http://hl2world.com/bbs/-vp726151.html#726151 and previously in that thread

[Dionysos]

I think this whole thing is a little ridiculous. But hey... we'll see what Gabe has to say afterwards

Also, I request a swift and brutal banhammer on the poster above me.

[coder0xff]

Also, I request a swift and brutal banhammer on the poster above me.

Dumplings shouldn't be allowed to post in news threads, lol.

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noob.

Anyway.

Joe's campaign looks shit.

[Mr-Jigsaw]

Alright, it's not the best campaign in the world, but it looks better than most of the third-party l4d campaigns we see being developed.

[Dodomaster]

Joe's campaign looks shit.

Well, at least he's getting gabe and erik to look at it. And probably get some swag in the process too.
I'm kinda jealous!

[cdxx]

Gabe's getting a free trip to Australia so he can lobby l4d2 with the censorshit, er i mean censorship department.
He's just using this as an excuse to make Joe feel special.

a classic case of 2 birds 1 stone... either way totally cool.

Lastly.. the EPIC FAIL to qwertyman for being a douche noob.

[no00dylan]

how about you guys donating money to fly gabe to my house to see all mah levels n shit

geez.

[vcool]

I'm pretty sure Gabe knows that the map is mediocre.

[Blink]

I feel that it's almost a bit rude of Gabe to accept the money. Valve are obviously quite wealthy and he could afford to fly to AUS with no worries. He should of donated the money to charity or something and bought the tickets himself.