Posted: 20-07-09 In: Mods, Steam, Steam Games, Team Fortress 2 By: BlueWolf72 | (58) comments | Add your comments

In a recent interview ABC TV’s Good Game, Valve boss Gabe Newell says Valve wants to let the Steam community fund future game development. Valve shocked the world with Steam and Gabe is considering a way for you to pay upfront as a community for the game you would play.   Imagine paying $30.00 dollars for for another Half-Life, or maybe Opposing Force 2 would you do it?

“One of the areas that I am super interested in right now is how we can do financing from the community. So right now, what typically happens is you have this budget - it needs to be huge, it has to be $10m - $30m, and it has to be all available at the beginning of the project. There’s a huge amount of risk associated with those dollars and decisions have to be incredibly conservative. What I think would be much better would be if the community could finance the games. In other words, ‘Hey, I really like this idea you have. I’ll be an early investor in that and, as a result, at a later point I may make a return on that product, but I’ll also get a copy of that game.’ So move financing from something that occurs between a publisher and a developer… Instead have it be something where funding is coming out of community for games and game concepts they really like.”

Inside Valve Software Interview