No Polycounters from Valve?

TeRRoR

Kind of surprised that I haven't seen any PolyCounters from Valve on here, especially considering the relationship between the PolyCount community and Valve itself!

Where are you all at?

Ace-Angel

I think they're being held under lock and without food till EP3 comes out while wearing about 20 different hats as punishment, they also have a nice cutout of Gabe next to them with a nice Trident, each one with a different piece of food on each end with text "No Food till Episode hits the Floor."

Two Listen

I've always sort of assumed Polycount had a ridiculous amount of lurkers. They're here, as are tons of others I'm sure, they're just not "active". Over the years I've come to view Polycount as more of a steady beacon, rather than a ridiculously active postfest where all the "cool" kids hang out during the day. A somewhat disproportionate amount of lurkers in comparison to posters is somewhat reflective of that nature.

And that's not a bad thing. In fact I wouldn't change it for anything. We've got the activity when it counts (Brawl anyone?).

leilei

Polycounter or not I can't recall any time where I saw a valver hanging out in a random community.

TeRRoR

Two Listen wrote: »

I've always sort of assumed Polycount had a ridiculous amount of lurkers. They're here, as are tons of others I'm sure, they're just not "active". Over the years I've come to view Polycount as more of a steady beacon, rather than a ridiculously active postfest where all the "cool" kids hang out during the day. A somewhat disproportionate amount of lurkers in comparison to posters is somewhat reflective of that nature.

And that's not a bad thing. In fact I wouldn't change it for anything. We've got the activity when it counts (Brawl anyone?).

Who you calling cool bro? :P

thatnumpty

pretty sure mrKite is at Valve.

adam

thatnumpty wrote: »

pretty sure mrKite is at Valve.

He is.

brandoom

Two Listen wrote: »

I've always sort of assumed Polycount had a ridiculous amount of lurkers. They're here, as are tons of others I'm sure, they're just not "active". Over the years I've come to view Polycount as more of a steady beacon, rather than a ridiculously active postfest where all the "cool" kids hang out during the day. A somewhat disproportionate amount of lurkers in comparison to posters is somewhat reflective of that nature.

And that's not a bad thing. In fact I wouldn't change it for anything. We've got the activity when it counts (Brawl anyone?).

Well said.

Slum

I know a good few people at valve, and they are polycounters There are people here from all over, every studio in the world. It's one big dysfunctional family.

Justin Meisse

There are art directors and executive producers lurking here, sometimes it makes me hesitate before being a jerk... But not that often

Mcg.

They're too busy working on Left for Dead 3

Andreas

I don't see why its important?

Moosey_G

It's just a general discussion topic. It doesn't have to be of paramount significance. If a thread isn't important (or discussion worthy) you probably won't see it the next day.

Frump

Heh. I've always wanted to start a thread asking this question myself.

It makes sense they would lurk, I have assumed tons of people do. I know a bunch of people who frequent PC without posting (even though I urge them to post more often).

Nysuatro

They probably don't wont to get stalked with private messages from people who want a job at Valve.

xvampire

here in general talks people want to "blog" and post lolcat pic, so i dont think they want to admit where they work.

no j/k

well some of my friend from blizzard actually trying to be public relation, but he ended spoiling NDA's and asked to edit his post ... so not a good idea either .. -_-

thomasp

let's not forget people might also not be all too eager to be seen as some semi-official voice of a studio on these boards. some studios also discourage this in their contracts.

typically i think it's more of a youngster's thing to go all out with a studio logo and some rockstar-signature anyway.

ScudzAlmighty

I imagine if anyone from Valve tried to show their face on here they'd be insta-swarmed with "Where's our F** Ep 3 Vavlie?!?!?" and then never come back.

but then ep3's just a myth.

...ain't it Valvie?..

Swizzle

Nysuatro wrote: »

They probably don't wont to get stalked with private messages from people who want a job at Valve.

I've had crap like that happen and I only made some weapons for TF2. It's nuts.

teaandcigarettes

Mcg. wrote: »

They're too busy working on Left for Dead 3

Lies. They're too busy playing pirates




now where's that Ep3?

Ace-Angel

I wouldn't be surprised if after the attention we got from Kotaku, some people are lurking, waiting to hear someone works 'somewhere big' and flood them with messages asking such and such.

MattQ86

I don't know, every time I've ever submitted "person X has made something really really cool and it should probably be given attention" stories to Destructoid it's gone ignored. I think if news of a recent hire would have drawn attention from the dirt sheets it would have happened by now with one of Polycount's many many Blizzard hirings.

MM

ariel diaz posts here once in a while:

http://www.polycount.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1345901&postcount=4251

TeRRoR

teaandcigarettes wrote: »

Lies. They're too busy playing pirates




now where's that Ep3?

Photoshop....right? Right?????

eld

TeRRoR wrote: »

Photoshop....right? Right?????

No it's true, the girls are not shopped in, they flock him!

r_fletch_r

leilei wrote: »

Polycounter or not I can't recall any time where I saw a valver hanging out in a random community.

Dont know about Polycount but Bay Raitt seems to be online quite a bit. He's quite active on the 3Dcoat forums.

I wonder if that Pirate thing was a team building exercise? that would be awesome