Valve Corporation

Valve Corporation (also known as Valve Software) is an American video game and digital distribution company headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. The company is known for the Half-Life, Counter-Strike, Portal, Day of Defeat, Team Fortress, Left 4 Dead, and Dota series, as well as for its digital distribution service Steam.

Good Qualities

 * 1) Outright revolutionary graphics for their time to the point where some games, such as Team Fortress 2, still look good to this day.
 * 2) Most of their games have good stories.
 * 3) Their multiplayer games are all unique from each other, from the top-down gameplay of Dota 2, to the cooperative gameplay of the Left 4 Dead games, and even a mix of both in Alien Swarm.
 * 4) Realistic, fluent and smooth controls.
 * 5) They are notably very pro-modding, and some mods for Half-Life and Half-Life 2 have been released onto steam.
 * 6) Good voice acting in many of their games.
 * 7) They made Steam, distribution software and community for video games.
 * 8) Many well-written characters.
 * 9) Outstanding game mechanics: Half-Life 2's Gravity Gun can pick up and launch objects, and Portal's titular portal gun, which can move both yourself and other objects around.
 * 10) Good sound design.
 * 11) More improvements via updates. Valve has always been updating their games, even if the updates don't have much.
 * 12) Revolutionary AI: The cockroaches in Half-Life have realistic AI.
 * 13) They release their mod tools for free. For example, Source Filmmaker, their internal video maker, was released in 2012 for free.
 * 14) They have banned games utilizing blockchain tech, NFTs, and cryptocurrencies from Steam.
 * 15) They develop their own hardware such as the Index and Steam Deck.
 * 16) They support fan projects, sometimes (even if they suck), unlike some companies.
 * 17) Long after they disappeared from development, they blew everyone away with Half-Life: Alyx.
 * 18) Incredible attention to detail. Half-Lifeː Alyx for one recieved praise for its little references to both earlier Half-Life games and to other franchises by them.

Bad Qualities
Valve has gone downhill (in both socially and productivity) as they no longer care about their community in recent years. For more information, visit Crappy Games Wiki.

Prior to their official downfall in the early 2010s, their first and earliest big controversy was Left 4 Dead 2 's release date as many believed it released too early after the first game Left 4 Dead, being released exactly one year after the original. Some fans also blamed the game for causing Half-Life 2: Episode 3/Half-Life 3 to never be released. When they were other factors causing the game cancelation.