Gabe Newell interview with high school students

[Krynn72]

I wish my high school was cool enough to set up video conferences with amazing people.

 

[ríomhaire]

Holy crap this is a long video.

 

[jimbo118]

42 mins?

Hmmm, any highlights?

 

[Dekstar]

the entire thing is very insightful, Jimbo .

 

[Barnz]

there's nothing special in the video.

 

[Shem]

I need someone that has forty minutes of free time to summarize this interview for me so I can form an opinion of it.

 

[Barnz]

he talks about the marketing, the community, and players. the rest is trivial.

 

[MJ12]

He also mentions something about Episode 3 in there, not too important, something about the setting, story, and release date or something.

 

[DEATH eVADER]

The best game he has made to date is Portal 2

 

[Shem]

He also mentions something about Episode 3 in there, not too important, something about the setting, story, and release date or something.

Wait, what? Which part does he say it at?

 

[Tony]

Wait, what? Which part does he say it at?

It's just past the part with the strippers I think.

 

[Bad^Hat]

No, it's after that, just before he does a wicked motorbike jump over a pit of ichthyosaurs.

 

[Vegeta897]

Are there any groan-worthy parts due to this being a high school?

 

[Krynn72]

Are there any groan-worthy parts due to this being a high school?

Besides the unstable sound of pubescent voices and them being too shy to ask a question without being called on, nope. They actually ask pretty decent questions.

 

[Avoidist]

That and morning announcements about 34 minutes in.

 

[Sloth]

Overall it was a great thing to have on in the background while doing a few other things - just loving the fact that Gabe spent almost of an hour of his time to talk to some kids over video conferencing.

 

[Naph]

I hate direction mics.
Good information and morale booster.

 

[Kadayi]

I thought it was a really interesting video. Some of the highlights I thought were: -

That they use TF2 as a test bed for ideas. Thus explaining why the game still receives updates. The pay off in terms of the information they gather in response is the key goal for them as they move their business forward.

A 75% game discount promotion on Steam generates on average 40 x the profit of a single unit sale. So say for example your game was selling at £20 on steam per unit, and you made £10 in profit on that sale. Selling it at £5 for a weekend (assuming £2.50 in profit) would generate around 160 more unit sales than usual. So let's assume on an average day you sell 500 units on Steam. With a promotion sale you might suddenly sell 80K units. That's a big step up in terms of profitability, and certainly nothing bricks and mortar can compete with.

Portal 2 is finished.

 

[Jerry_111]

what highschool has a friggin marketing class?

 

[Krynn72]

what highschool has a friggin marketing class?

A cool one. One that I didn't get to go to

 

[Deleted member 56031]

^ same

 

[Ennui]

what highschool has a friggin marketing class?

Clearly one with a young male teacher hip enough to pick Valve to get in touch with and smart enough to realize there aren't many better choices of people/companies to interview than Valve when it comes to stellar marketing.

A lot of times public high schools have special focuses or specializations of some kind that the school has gotten grants for in the past or something.

My high school had a mass communications / media studies "center" that meant we had a series of videography / media courses that no other local high school offered. I'm guessing this marketing class is part of some kind of business/marketing focused set of courses at the school in question.

It was an interesting watch, I got bored about halfway through when I realized there wasn't going to be anything I hadn't heard before in one form or another.

 

[Raziaar]

I enjoyed the video. Gabe is pretty impressive at speaking.


EDIT: ****ing stupid school announcements. RUINED GABES AWESOME STUFF!