Comment on Abrash on Valve: How I Got Here, What It's Like, and What I'm DoingparentComments−codexon14yPeople overestimate Valve's competence because everyone loves their games.If you've ever tried hosting a TF2 server, you will find how riddled with bugs it is. Every other patch causes crashes.There was a power outage at a single datacenter that knocked out all of Steam.They also had a security breach. Several months later, they RSA encrypted people's password with javascript on top of SSL.http://kotaku.com/5884430/power-outage-knocked-out-valve-ste...http://kotaku.com/5884092/valve-hackers-obtained-old-steam-t...
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People overestimate Valve's competence because everyone loves their games.
If you've ever tried hosting a TF2 server, you will find how riddled with bugs it is. Every other patch causes crashes.
There was a power outage at a single datacenter that knocked out all of Steam.
They also had a security breach. Several months later, they RSA encrypted people's password with javascript on top of SSL.
http://kotaku.com/5884430/power-outage-knocked-out-valve-ste...
http://kotaku.com/5884092/valve-hackers-obtained-old-steam-t...