Valve made Half Life, TF2, DOTA2, Portal, etc. Each game is a giant in its field and has made Valve popular. Hi Rez has made… problems for existing fans of Tribes.

When Hi-Rez can compete in the same league as Valve, then their words have value. For now it’s peewee league mad at varsity for being too good.

Oh Hi-Rez you trash company. You ruined one of my favorite franchises of all time, not once, but twice with Tribes Ascend, and Tribes 3.

While Chism may be a worthless leech, he isn’t completely wrong. Valve’s ownership of Steam does put it in a privileged position, which could be abused in a lot of anti-competitive ways. The fact that it isn’t doing that is really only because GabeN isn’t the same type of leech which Chism is. He’s what a lot of people seem to want, a benevolent dictator. That said, when he finally kicks the bucket, or gets tired and sells the company, the future direction of Steam would be an open question. There may be a very good argument for Valve to be put under the microscope of the FTC for possible anti-trust breakup.

How does Hi-Rez even still exist when they have never made a single decent game?

I remember when they tried releasing Global Agenda with a monthly paid subscription. It was shit and no one played it so they switched to no subscription within a year (here’s when I got suckered into buying it), but it was still shit and no one played it so it went free to play within another year.

How do you exist as a company for this long with that as your foundation?

Hirez can suck a dick for what they did to Tribes.