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Valve Corporation
Valve Corporation is an American video game developer and digital
Valve Corporation
distribution company headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. It is the
developer of the software distribution platform Steam and the Half-Life,
Counter-Strike, Portal, Day of Defeat, Team Fortress, Left 4 Dead, and
Dota 2 games.

Valve was founded in 1996 as a limited liability company by former

Microsoft employees Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington. Their debut
product, the PC first-person shooter Half-Life, was released in 1998 to
critical acclaim and commercial success, after which Harrington left the
company. In 2003, Valve launched Steam, which accounted for around half
of digital PC game sales by 2011. By 2012, Valve employed around 250 Lobby area of Valve's former offices in
people and was reportedly worth over US$3 billion, making it the most Bellevue, Washington
profitable company per employee in the United States.[5][6] In 2015, Valve
Formerly Valve L.L.C. (1996–
entered the game hardware market with the Steam Machine, a line of third- called 2003)
party built gaming PCs running Valve's SteamOS operating system.
Type Private
Industry Video game industry
Digital distribution
Contents Founded August 24, 1996 in
Kirkland, Washington,
History
U.S.
Founding and incorporation
Half-Life Founders Gabe Newell
Source game engine Mike Harrington
Acquisitions and awards
Headquarters Bellevue, Washington,
Network intrusions
U.S.
Games
Area served Worldwide
Cancelled games
Key people Gabe Newell (President)
Steam
Other projects
Scott Lynch (COO)
PowerPlay Products Video games:
Steam Machine
Counter-Strike series
Pipeline
J. J. Abrams collaboration Day of Defeat series
HTC Vive Dota 2
Finances Half-Life series
Organizational structure Left 4 Dead series
Legal disputes Portal series
Valve Corporation v. Vivendi Universal Games Team Fortress series
Valve Corporation v. Activision Blizzard Software:
Dota intellectual property ownership
GoldSrc
ACCC v. Valve Corporation
UFC Que Choisir v. Valve Corporation Source
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A.M. v. Valve Corporation Source Filmmaker

Skins gambling Steam
European Commission
SteamOS
"Valve Time"
Valve Anti-Cheat
References
VOGL
External links
Total equity US$2.5 billion[1] (2012)
Owner Gabe Newell (over
50%)[2]
History Number of ~360[3] (2016)
employees

Founding and incorporation Subsidiaries Valve S.a.r.l.

Valve GmbH[4]
Valve was founded by former longtime Microsoft employees Gabe Newell
Campo Santo
and Mike Harrington on August 24, 1996,[7][8] as Valve L.L.C., based in
Kirkland, Washington on the Seattle Eastside. Harrington left the company Website valvesoftware.com (htt
in 2000. After incorporation in April 2003,[9] it moved from its original p://valvesoftware.com)
location to Bellevue, Washington, the same city in which their original
publisher, Sierra On-Line, Inc., was based. In 2010, the office was moved again
to a larger location in Bellevue.[10] In 2016, Valve signed a nine-floor lease in
the Lincoln Square complex in downtown Bellevue, doubling the size of their
offices.[11] Valve's logo between 1996 and
2018

Half-Life
For its first product, Valve settled on a concept for a horror first-person shooter (FPS) using the Quake engine licensed
from id Software.[12] Half-Life was released in November 1998.[13] It was praised by numerous publications as one of the
best and most influential games of all time;[14][15][16] according to IGN, the history of the FPS genre "breaks down pretty
cleanly into pre-Half-Life and post-Half-Life eras."[17]

Valve acquired TF Software Pty. Ltd., the makers of the Team Fortress mod for Quake, in May 1998 with the intent to
create a standalone Team Fortress game.[18] The Team Fortress Classic mod, a port of the original Team Fortress mod for
Quake, was released for Half-Life in 1999.

Gearbox Software created the expansion packs Opposing Force, Blue Shift, and Decay, and ported the game to Dreamcast
and PlayStation 2.

Source game engine

After the success of Half-Life, the team worked on mods, spin-offs, and sequels, including Half-Life 2. All current Valve
games are built on its Source engine. The company has developed six game series: Half-Life, Team Fortress, Portal,
Counter-Strike, Left 4 Dead and Day of Defeat. Valve is noted for its support of its games' modding community, most
prominently, Counter-Strike, Team Fortress, and Day of Defeat. Valve has branched out with this tradition to continue
developing Dota 2 as the standalone sequel to the Warcraft III mod.[19] Each of these games began as a third-party mod
that Valve purchased and developed into a full game. They also distribute community mods on Steam.[20] Valve
announced the Source 2 engine in March 2015, later porting the entirety of Dota 2 to the engine in September of that
year.[21][22]

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Acquisitions and awards

Valve has grown both in scope and commercial value. In January 2008, they announced the acquisition of Turtle Rock
Studios,[23] which would be renamed Valve South.[24] Turtle Rock Studios spun out of Valve again in March 2010.[25] In
April 2010, the company won The Escapist Magazine's March Mayhem tournament for the best developer of 2010,
beating out Zynga in the semi-finals and BioWare in the final.[26]

In December 2012, Valve acquired Star Filled Studios, a two-man gaming company, to open a San Francisco office.[27]
However, Valve ended the operation in August 2013 when it was decided that there was little benefit coming from the
arrangement.[28] In April 2018, Valve acquired the independent developer Campo Santo, known for the 2016 adventure
game Firewatch. Campo Santo will continue to develop its own titles under Valve.[29]

Network intrusions
Valve's internal network has been infiltrated by hackers three times, in 2003 where content of the yet to be released Half-
Life 2 was leaked onto the internet,[30] Newell's email account was compromised, and keyloggers were installed on several
Valve systems.[31] In 2011 the Steam customer databases and forums were compromised.[32][33] In September 2011, a
hacker broke into the network and downloaded the beta code of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.[34][35]

In June 2014, a developer from SCS Software reported an exploit that allowed announcement pages to be injected with
code, and after no response, he edited an announcement to redirect users to a Harlem Shake video.[36][37][38] In March
2016, a vulnerability on the Steam Store allowed a user to publish a game without any authorization from Valve.[39][40]

Games
Valve has developed and published the main games in both the Half-Life and Portal series, as well as published both and
developed one of the Left 4 Dead games, the other of which was developed by Valve South (now Turtle Rock Studios).
Valve also developed and published Team Fortress, Team Fortress 2, and Dota 2, and are developing Artifact.

As several of Valve's series feature only two primary games, named with numerals such as Half-Life and Half-Life 2, and
with no apparent announcements on a third title in these series, Valve has developed a lighthearted joking reputation for
not being able to count to 3, or scared of this number.[41] This has also created a humorous myth-like nature among
players and journalists as to whether Half-Life 3 actually exists or not.[42]

Cancelled games
Incomplete games include a fairy-themed role-playing game,[43] Prospero[44] and Stars of Blood.[45][46] Valve worked with
Arkane Studios on The Crossing, which was cancelled in May 2009. Arkane later tried to produce Return to Ravenholm
without consent by Valve, which was then also canceled.[47][48][49]

Steam
Valve announced Steam, its digital distribution software platform, at the 2002 Game Developers Conference.[50][51] It
launched in September 2003 and was first used to deliver patches and other updates to Valve's online games, of which it
later became mandatory to use.[52][53]

On August 1, 2012, Valve announced revisions to the Steam Subscriber Agreement (SSA) to prohibit class action lawsuits
by users against the service provider.[54][55] By July 2014, there were over 3,400 games available on Steam, with over 150
million registered accounts by January 2018.[56][57]
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Alongside these changes to the SSA, the company also declared publicly the
incorporation of Valve S.a.r.l., a subsidiary based in Luxembourg.[54][55] Valve
set up a physical office in Luxembourg Kirchberg. According to Valve's project
manager Mike Dunkle, the location was chosen for eCommerce capabilities
and infrastructure, talent acquisition, tax advantages and central geographic
location – most major partners are accessible, with 50% within driving
distance.[58]

Valve S.a.r.l. was used to sell games to United Kingdom–based users to avoid
paying the full 20% value-added tax (VAT).[59] The tax loophole was expected
to be closed on January 1, 2015.[60] In December 2015, the French consumer
group UFC Que Choisir initiated a lawsuit against Valve for several of their
Steam policies that conflict or run afoul of French law. One of the reasons was Gabe Newell (foreground) and Doug
for using the tax loophole.[61] Valve S.a.r.l. stopped doing business on January Lombardi (background), 2007
1, 2017, with the main company taking over EU sales again.[62] In August 2017,
Valve announced that Steam had reached over 67 million monthly and 33
million daily active users on the platform.[63]

Other projects

PowerPlay
PowerPlay was a technological initiative headed by Valve and Cisco Systems to decrease the latency for online computer
games.[64] Gabe Newell, the managing director of Valve, announced the project in January 2000 and after 12 months the
project was quietly abandoned.

PowerPlay was described as a set of protocols and deployment standards at the router level to improve performance. It
was claimed that a player with 1000 ms ping was able to play against another player on a LAN connection with no
noticeable disadvantage.[65] Initially the protocol was to be released with PowerPlay 1.0 focusing on Quality of Service
(QoS) and later a revision, PowerPlay 2.0 that would focus on functionality. Cisco and Valve intended to deliver a single
dial-up service in Q1 2000 in the United States with a 30-day free trial with a bundled copy of Team Fortress modified to
support PowerPlay.[66] Despite never deploying the dial-up plan featuring PowerPlay 1.0, Valve announced in January
2001 that the standard had indeed been finalized.[65]

The standard was to involve purchasing PowerPlay approved Cisco hardware and infrastructure that had adequate
bandwidth and QoS standards that prioritize PowerPlay gaming packets at the expense of all others. Gabe Newell
conceded that Internet service providers (ISPs) would bear the brunt of this expense: "The ISPs are going to need to spend
a fair amount of money to be compliant with PowerPlay. But how they get that back is up to them. Some will have a tiered
service, and some will just try to recoup their investment through reduced customer churn and customer acquisition."[67]

Steam Machine
Newell has been critical of the direction that Microsoft has taken with the Windows operating system in making it a closed
architecture similar to Apple's products, and has stated that he believes that the changes made in Windows 8 are "a
catastrophe for everyone in the PC space".[68] Newell identified the open-source Linux platform as an ideal platform for
Steam, noting that the only thing holding back its adoption is the lack of games.[68]

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In 2012, Valve announced that they were working on a console/PC hybrid for the living room which was unofficially
dubbed by media as the "Steam Box".[69][70] A precursor to such a unit is SteamOS, a freely available Linux-based
operating system that builds upon the Steam client functionality that includes media services, live streaming across home
networks, game sharing within families, and parental controls. SteamOS was officially announced in September 2013 as
the first of several announcements related to the Steam Machine platform[71] as well as their unique game controller.[7] In
May 2014, Valve announced that the company's own SteamOS-powered Steam Machine would be delayed until 2015 due
to problems with the game controller.[72] In 2015, Alienware, ZOTAC, and CyberPowerPC launched their versions of the
Steam Machine. By June 2016, fewer than half a million had been sold.[73]

Pipeline
In July 2013, Valve announced Pipeline, an intern project consisting of ten high school students working together to learn
how to create video game content.[74] Pipeline serves to discuss and answer questions that teenagers often ask about the
video game industry,[75] and see if it is possible to train a group of teenagers with minimal work experience to work for a
company like Valve.[75] The latter purpose breaks Valve's tradition of employing experienced developers, as the company
is not good at "teaching people straight out of school".[75][10]

J. J. Abrams collaboration
At the 2013 D.I.C.E. Summit, Gabe Newell confirmed that he and director J. J. Abrams were collaborating to produce a
Half-Life or Portal film, as well as a possible new game.[76]

HTC Vive
In March 2015, Valve and Taiwanese electronics company HTC announced a joint project to develop the Vive, a virtual
reality headset with motion tracked controllers.[77] The companies are working with Google, Lions Gate, and HBO to
develop content for the device.[78]

Finances
Valve does not make its finances public. In 2005, Forbes estimated that Valve had grossed $70 million that year. Ed
Barton, a Screen Digest analyst, estimated Valve's 2010 revenue to be in the "high hundreds of millions of dollars". As of
2011, the company had an estimated worth of $2 to 4 billion, and according to Newell it was the most profitable company
per employee in the United States. Most of Valve's revenue comes from Steam, which controlled 50 to 70% of the market
for downloaded PC games in 2011.[79]

Organizational structure
In Valve's early days, the company's structure was similar to other development firms; this was principally driven by the
nature of physical game releases through publishers that required tasks to be completed by given deadlines, requiring a
more regimented structure.[80] As the company moved to digital releases where they serve as their own publisher, the
company structure has become more as a flat organization. Valve published their employee handbook to the public in
2012,[81][10] demonstrating at that time that outside of executive management, there were no bosses, and the company
used an open allocation system, allowing employees to move between departments at will.[82][83] This approach allows
employees to work on whatever interests them, but requires them to take ownership of their product and mistakes they
may make, according to Newell. Newell recognized that this structure works well for some but that "there are plenty of
great developers for whom this is a terrible place to work".[80]
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Economist Yanis Varoufakis, a former economic consultant for Valve, and former Finance Minister of Greece, attempted
to place Valve's organization in the context of theories of the firm and broader economic thinking.[84][85][86] Former
employee Jeri Ellsworth criticized the structure as "a lot like high school" in that certain employees have more influence
than others.[87]

Legal disputes

Valve Corporation v. Vivendi Universal Games

Between 2002 and 2005, Valve was involved in a complex legal dispute with its publisher, Vivendi Universal Games
(under Vivendi's brand Sierra Entertainment). It officially began on August 14, 2002, when Valve sued Sierra for copyright
infringement, alleging that the publisher had illegally distributed copies of their games to Internet cafes. They later added
claims of breach of contract, accusing their publisher of withholding royalties and delaying the release of Counter-Strike:
Condition Zero until after the holiday season.

Vivendi fought back, saying that Gabe Newell and marketing director Doug Lombardi had misrepresented Valve's position
in meetings with the publisher. Vivendi later countersued, claiming that Valve's Steam content distribution system
attempted to circumvent their publishing agreement. Vivendi sought intellectual property rights to Half-Life and a ruling
preventing Valve from using Steam to distribute Half-Life 2.

On November 29, 2004, Judge Thomas Samuel Zilly of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington
ruled in favor of Valve. Specifically, the ruling stated that Vivendi Universal and its affiliates (including Sierra) were not
authorized to distribute Valve games, either directly or indirectly, through cyber cafés to end users for pay-to-play
activities pursuant to the parties' publishing agreement. In addition, Judge Zilly ruled that Valve could recover copyright
damages for infringements without regard to the publishing agreement's limitation of liability clause.[88] Valve posted on
the Steam website that the two companies had come to a settlement in court on April 29, 2005.[89] Electronic Arts
announced on July 18, 2005, that they would be teaming up with Valve in a multi-year deal to distribute their games,
replacing Vivendi Universal from then onwards.[90] As a result of the trial, the arbitrator also awarded Valve $2,391,932.

Valve Corporation v. Activision Blizzard

In April 2009, Valve sued Activision Blizzard, which acquired Sierra Entertainment after a merger with its parent
company, Vivendi Universal Games. Activision had allegedly refused to honor the Valve v. Vivendi arbitration agreement.
Activision had only paid Valve $1,967,796 of the $2,391,932 award, refusing to pay the remaining $424,136, claiming it
had overpaid that sum in the past years.[91][92]

Dota intellectual property ownership

Defense of the Ancients (DotA) was a landmark mod first released in 2003 that created the basis of the genre of
multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA). It was originally developed by "Eul" within Blizzard Entertainment's Warcraft
III: Reign of Chaos via its world editor, and spawned several similar efforts, notably DotA-Allstars. While there had been
several that contributed to DotA-Allstars, the project was managed primarily by Steve "Guinsoo" Feak, and later by
"IceFrog". IceFrog was eventually hired by Valve in 2009, with the rights to the DotA intellectual property being sold to
Valve the following year. Eul was also hired into Valve by 2010.[93] Valve then subsequently filed trademarks towards a
sequel to DotA, titled Dota 2. DotA-Allstars, LLC, a group of former contributors to the DotA-Allstars project, filed an
opposing trademark in August 2010 to contest Valve's claim it owned the property rights.[94]

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DotA-Allstars, LLC was eventually acquired by Blizzard to start development of Blizzard All-Stars. Blizzard took over the
trademark challenge. The United States Patent & Trademark Office initially ruled in Valve's favor. By this point, Riot
Games had hired Guinsoo to help develop their own MOBA, League of Legends. As with IceFrog, Feak transferred his
rights to the Dota property to Riot, who in turn sold those to Blizzard. Blizzard filed a lawsuit against Valve to challenge
Valve's ownership, pitting the rights assigned through IceFrog to Guinsoo at odds.[95] The case Blizzard Entertainment v.
Valve Corporation was settled out of court in May 2012; Valve retained the right to use Dota commercially, while Blizzard
reserved the right for fans to use Dota non-commercially.[96] Blizzard changed the names of its own projects to remove the
Dota term, and renamed Blizzard All-Stars as Heroes of the Storm. Valve's Dota 2 was released in 2013.[97]

In 2014, mobile developers Lilith and uCool released their titles Dota Legends and Heroes Charge, respectively. Both
titles were influenced by Dota and the sequels. In 2017, Valve and Blizzard took joint action against these companies,
citing copyright issues related to the Dota names. uCool argued that the Dota games were a collective work and could not
be copyrighted by anyone in particular, but the presiding judge, Charles R. Breyer, felt that due to the trio's actions as
maintainers of the Dota mods, that they rightful have copyright claim to this. Separately, Lilith and uCool argued that Eul
had, in a forum post dated September 2004, assigned an open-source copyright license to Dota, which would make Valve
and Blizzard's copyright claims void. The case is scheduled to be heard by a jury to resolve this matter at a later date.[93]

ACCC v. Valve Corporation

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) announced it was taking action against Valve in 2014. On
March 29, 2016 Valve was found guilty of breaching Australian consumer law because:[98][99]

Valve claimed consumers were not entitled to a refund for digitally downloaded games purchased from Valve via the
Steam website or Steam Client (in any circumstances);
Valve had excluded statutory guarantees and/or warranties that goods would be of acceptable quality; and
Valve had restricted or modified statutory guarantees and/or warranties of acceptable quality.
During the prosecution of this case, Valve implemented a refund policy for Steam purchases, but the case still reviewed
Valve's actions prior to the onset of the lawsuit. The court overseeing the case sided with the ACCC in assigning a
A$3 million (about US$2.1 million) fine against Valve in December 2016, as well as requiring Valve to inform Australian
consumers of their rights when purchasing games from Steam.[100] Valve appealed the court's determination that it
"engaged in misleading or deceptive conduct and made false or misleading representations about consumer guarantees",
as well as seeking to appeal the fine, but the Australian higher courts rejected the appeals in December 2017.[101] In
January 2018, Valve filed for a "special leave" of the court's decision, appealing to the High Court of Australia.[102] The
High Court dismissed this claim in April 2018, asserting that Valve still was liable under Australian law since it sold
products directly to its citizens.[103]

UFC Que Choisir v. Valve Corporation

Consumer rights group UFC Que Choisir, based in France, filed a lawsuit against Valve in December 2015, claiming users
should be able to resell their software.[104][105]

A.M. v. Valve Corporation

A former employee filed a $3.1 million lawsuit in May 2016 alleging mistreatment after sex reassignment surgery, and that
Valve was exploiting workers.[106][107]

Skins gambling
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Valve was named as a defendant in two lawsuits in June and July 2016 related to third-party gambling sites that use the
Steamworks API to allow betting with the virtual currency of cosmetic weapon "skins" from Counter-Strike: Global
Offensive, which through these sites can be converted from or to real-world money. Both suits assert Valve aiding in
underaged gambling.[108] Valve subsequently stated it has no commercial ties with these sites, and that it would demand
these sites cease their use of the Steamworks API as they violate the authorized use policies.[109][110] In October 2016, the
Washington State Gambling Commission required Valve to stop the use of virtual skins for gambling on Steam, stating
they would face legal repercussions if they failed to cooperate.[111] Valve sent a letter on October 17, 2016 to the
Washington State Gambling Commission stating, "Valve has no business relationship with such gambling sites, and
indeed they can come into existence, operate, and go out of existence without Valve's knowledge" and that "We are not
aware of any such law that Steam or our games are violating".[112]

European Commission
In February 2017, the European Commission began investigating Valve and five publishers—Bandai Namco
Entertainment, Capcom, Focus Home Interactive, Koch Media and ZeniMax Media—for anti-competitive practices,
specifically the use of geo-blocking through the Steam storefront and Steam product keys to prevent access to software to
citizens of certain countries. Such practices would be against the Digital Single Market initiative by the European
Union.[113]

"Valve Time"
"Valve Time" is an industry term used jokingly with game releases from Valve, used to acknowledge the difference between
the "promised" date for released content stated by Valve and to the "actual" release date; "Valve Time" includes
predominant delays but also includes some content that was released earlier than expected. Valve itself has fully
acknowledged the term, including tracking known discrepancies between ideal and actual releases on their public
development wiki[114] and using it in announcements about such delays.[115][116] Valve ascribes delays to their mentality of
team-driven initiatives over corporate deadlines to make sure they provide a high-quality product to their customers.[117]

Valve's former business development chief Jason Holtman stated that the company sees themselves as an "oddity" in an
industry that looks towards punctual delivery of products; instead, Valve "[tries] as hard as we can to make the best thing
possible in the right time frame and get people content they want to consume. And if that takes longer, that's fine".[118] For
that, Valve takes the concept of "Valve Time" as a compliment, and that "having customers consistently looking at our
property or something you've done and saying, can you give me more" is evidence that they are making the right decisions
with their game releases, according to Holtman.[118] The company does try to avoid unintentional delays of their
projects,[119] and believes that the earlier occurrences of "Valve Time" delays, primarily from Half-Life development, has
helped them improve their release schedules.[117]

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do I get from where I am now to working at a professional level in a video game company like Valve?" Naturally, like a
pipeline, the journey is long, but the goal of this project is to act as a direct feed of knowledge from Valve to the
community in order to help equip individuals with the skills necessary to achieve their goals of getting into the video
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