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BioShock banned at Valve offices

by Justin McElroy on Aug 28th 2007 11:45AM

Do you think that the makers of one of the greatest first-person shooters ever are immune to the siren song of one of the other best first-person shooters ever? Valve head honcho Gabe Newell insists to CVG that they are not. "We had to ban BioShock from our offices," Newell said. "Nobody gets to play it until Orange Box is done - that's our reward to ourselves as a company; everyone gets a copy of BioShock."

Newell said he hasn't played it either, but he's "really looking forward to it". We're torn about this news. On one hand, we're sad for the Valve employees, but on the other hand, we really want to play Episode 2. And then, on our third hand, we think they probably should have thought of this game-banning policy before they announced they were making games episodically. Wasn't Episode 2 supposed to be out in the mid 80s? Did the team get addicted to WoW or something?

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Tags: bioshock, halflife2, orangebox, PC, valve, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (40)

LOL Get er Done!!!

lol that's a nice reward, finish up orange box already! :) :)

pwn3d

AFK - Buying a stack of BioShock and selling them to Valve employees. Look for the dude in the trench coat and funny hat.

Defying bans is fun.

And if they dont get done on time then they have to play Lair!

No, Valve shouldn't make them play Lair as punishment, they should make them play Resistance so they could see how mediocre a FPS can be. It would be both punishment and a lesson.

lol. But I would've said Hour of Victory or Vampire Rain, two games that are sure to mark the history of videogames (not!)

@tpnmvz
Thank god someone said it. Resistance was such a huge letdown for me. The first five minutes, when you drive the tank, and the least 5 minutes were all that were good.

Resistance, to me, was surprisingly good. I kept hearing things like "OMG THIS GAME IS SO BAD," but when I actually played it, I was pleasantly surprised. It's not the best FPS I've ever played, but it's still a ton of fun.

This news is awesome, it's good that Valve is humble enough to recognize other great games in their field. :)

Well Bioshock is a nice game. Its cool that other companies recognize that. And even make it public. More PR for 2K Games :)

They get to play /any/ games while they're there?
I guess this explains the delays :b

LOL Bioshock is awesome! But finish the Orange Box already..

Duke, is that you?

I love Valve. I sure hope we're not foreshadowing a delay into 2008 for Orange Box, though. For such an incredible package, it really hasn't been getting much press recently.

Get working you lazy bioshock valve workers fans. We'll let you play with your toys when you finished doing your homework!

I'm loving the third hand analogy :-)

yeah stop dragging your feet. I want to play Portal and TF2. Oh yeah and make the rest of the TF2 character movies already.

this is awesome

as an aside: i do not have a 360 or a pc that can run bioshock, but i played the demo for a little bit at a friends place over the weekend. my god. i was going to get a ps3, but im switching to 360 first just for that game.

I kind of see this as honorable. It's like they're paying homage to another excellent FPS, even tho it is in direct competition of HL2.

I haven't had the pleasure of playing Episode 1 yet...how is it?

Perhaps in direct competition, but Valve is probably taking a nice cut off of the earnings they make through the purchases of Bioshock made through Steam.

@Blazur Episode 1 is short but awesome, easily worth the price.

Would ya kindly not play BioShock in the office?

lol...

NEWS FLASH: Bioshock Hypnotizes Game Industry; Productivity Down 43%...

Gotta love it when you have a company made of gamers, eh?

This is an awesome story. Really, though, get Orange Box done because I want it.

I'd be telling the management at Steam to suck a fart out of my asshole.

The go eat a big, "Steaming" dog turd.

I get one heatr for saying I'd rather play Bioshock, and if my boss told me I couldn't, to go fuck off??

Whatever...

Jesus christ people, it's called a joke.

Thats one hell of a reward.After they finish orange box they could get some inspiration from Bioshock to upgrade the Half life formula for Half-life 3.

You got to love these guys :D

Ive been waiting almost a decade for TF2...hurry up already!

Easier way to do solve this: Don't make average games that take two years to make, that other companies would do in 6 months.

Resistance is no where near bad. You guys are so fanboyish its not even funny. I own a 360 and nothing else I have over 10,000 points and to suggest Resistance is an outright bad game is equivalent to saying Gears of War is nothing more than an overrated, superficial, "not my style of game". It's silly, childish, and downright unapproachable.

I have Resistance. It's a good game but the enemies were a little to repetitive and I lost interest in the Story too often. Compared to the likes of the HL universe, it just doesn't have a leg to stand on. At the same time, we shouldn't be comparing a launch console FPS title with a long standing PC FPS Franchise. That's a bit silly. Still, I like Insomniac a lot and I'm looking forward to bigger and better games from them in the future.

I own a PS3, played all the way through RFOM, and because I didn't like that makes me a xbox fanboy? That makes no sense. Sorry if I'm not a fan of nearly undodgeable weapon-fire spray, horribly placed checkpoints, so-so graphics, so-so AI, etc...

@Bloo
Either you never played Resistance, or you just admitted to being the worst player of RFOM ever, in the history world.

I played it and am highly skilled. Highly. Sorry if my opinion differs from yours. Believe me, I wanted to like the game.

According to Kim Swift (Portal), Gabe Newell does indeed play WoW. Fun fact for today.

Thats kinda funny...we play games at work too, when you make games playing other games is definately something that helps with the overall process, cuz then your like hey wouldn't it be cool if our game had something like a cross of whatever game it is your playing and making.
I think the biggest thing at my job right now is starcraft/wow/gears of war.
Gotta love how the programmers are doin that stuff and playing wow at the same time.

I think this is an incredibly fun way to motivate the employees. =)

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