It must be nice to be Valve
Posted by: Lark in Gaming, Multimedia, Personal, tags: code, morse, Portal, radio, Team Fortress 2, update, ValveValve has made a handful of legendary games. They have an awesome digital distribution system, with DRM that people actually seem to like (compared to it’s alternatives). They have a great reputation, mostly from making great games but also because they have do things like regularly updating Team Fortress 2 with new items and weapons (and bots!!!) at no added cost.
But that’s not why I’m jealous of Valve at this particular moment. I’m jealous because all Valve has to do is post an update like this for Portal:
Changed radio transmission frequency to comply with federal and state spectrum management regulations
And they get a response like this. 64 pages of posts in 4 hours. Posts full of people scouring Portal for clues of how to use the radios recently scattered across the game, as well as trying to decipher the beeps they emit (morse code, some are thinking).
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