No Polycounters from Valve?

TeRRoR · Jun 2011

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 · Jun 2011

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 · Jun 2011

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 · Jun 2011

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

TeRRoR · Jun 2011

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 · Jun 2011

pretty sure mrKite is at Valve.

adam · Jun 2011

thatnumpty wrote: »

pretty sure mrKite is at Valve.

He is.

brandoom · Jun 2011

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 · Jun 2011

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 · Jun 2011

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

Mcg. · Jun 2011

They're too busy working on Left for Dead 3

Andreas · Jun 2011

I don't see why its important?

Moosey_G · Jun 2011

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 · Jun 2011

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 · Jun 2011

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

xvampire · Jun 2011

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 · Jun 2011

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 · Jun 2011

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 · Jun 2011

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 · Jun 2011

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 · Jun 2011

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 · Jun 2011

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 · Jun 2011

ariel diaz posts here once in a while:

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

TeRRoR · Jun 2011

teaandcigarettes wrote: »

Lies. They're too busy playing pirates

now where's that Ep3?

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

eld · Jun 2011

TeRRoR wrote: »

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

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

r_fletch_r · Jun 2011

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

No Polycounters from Valve?

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