9 Confirmed Layed Off from Valve : Othor Games

» Thu Feb 14, 2013 2:28 pm

Since when has Valve ever layed anyone off? And these are all fairly important people.

http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/02/13/valve-layoff-hardware-mobile/

UPDATE: Garry’s Mod creator Garry Newman https://twitter.com/garrynewman/status/301785811630821376 the appearance of a number of differences on Valve’s staff page seen through http://www.diffchecker.com/h14Uhs74. The comparison tool indicates the removal of nine employee bios from the http://www.valvesoftware.com/company/people.html of Valve’s company page, listed below:

Moby Francke, Half-Life 2 character designer and Team Fortress 2 art lead
Jason Holtman, director of business development for Steam and Steamworks
Keith Huggins, character animator and animator for Team Fortress 2 “Meet the” video series
Tom Leonard, software engineer for Half-Life 2 and Left 4 Dead
Realm Lovejoy, artist for Half-Life 2, Portal, and Left 4 Dead. She was also part of the original DigiPen-turned-Valve team that created Narbacular Drop, the inspiration for Portal
Marc Nagel, test lead for Half-Life, Counter-Strike, and patch updates
Bay Raitt, animator for Half-Life 2, Team Fortress 2, and Portal
Elan Ruskin, engine programmer for Left 4 Dead, Portal 2, and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Matthew Russell, animator for Team Fortress 2 “Meet the” video series

» Thu Feb 14, 2013 9:24 am

Or, it could be that they just did not get around to updating the Bio pages. My company kept the local VPs stuff up there for a month after he was fired.

» Thu Feb 14, 2013 9:39 am

Hrm, 5 of them worked on the Half Life series.....could it be that they left due to irritation with the delays on Episode 3/Half Life 3? Or maybe they were fired for opposing Gabe's master plan to have the next Half Life a heavily scripted, practically on-rails, COD-style FPS? :cold:

» Thu Feb 14, 2013 6:36 am

Or, it could be that they just did not get around to updating the Bio pages. My company kept the local VPs stuff up there for a month after he was fired.

Bay Raitt is one of those listed and he was the lead for SFM.

It's not like this is the end of the world or anything. It's just odd. I'm sure it'll be less odd if they ever put out something official.