Could also be simply a case of corporate PR taking over and the team not being able to post about the development as they used to. Valve is a rather secretive company.
I don’t have any evidence either way, but I assume they were brought into the Valve fold partly because Valley was so promising. I have a hard time imagining it’s on hiatus. Hope I’m not being naive!
Yeah, there’s been no podcasts from them since then either (as I predicted), so I wouldn’t read too much into it beyond it being the Valve information vortex.
Jake posted on ResetEra recently that they definitely want to start podcasting again, but they’ve just been crazy busy with moving their lives to Seattle and settling into their roles at Valve:
Steam page is up for this, not sure when that happened! Added to the wishlist.
I think that might be the least impressive set of screenshots ever.
Still, wishlisted!
I remember seeing that steam page months ago and it still says that “Campo Santo” is the developer / publisher instead of Valve. So I don’t think there’s anything new there.
I wonder if they’re still on track for 2019? They’ve been surprisingly silent.
And completely abandoned their podcast community. Makes me sad.
VALVE TIME in full effect no doubt. I am wondering if this will be a 2021 release at this rate? I was searching around for any type of news, and nothing.
I was wondering about this. Does the Idle Thumbs radio silence correlate with their move to Valve? (IIRC two out of the three hosts work at campo)
Yep. That’s exactly when the shows died. They didn’t even make an announcement that they were going on hiatus so I always wondered if it was some Valve policy getting in the way. Really miss those shows.
Well shheeeeeiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.
I guess this will be on your wishlist for a looooooong time.
Yep… I bet the go VR with it down the road.
Why waste talent like that on fucking DOTA
Because Campo / Idle Thumbs people have always liked dota and want to work on it.
i don’t think there could be a better reason than that, oh well.
Oh man, I wasn’t caught up on the last dozen posts of this thread prior to reading this today. All the more painful reading people speculate about the fate of both the team and the game over a year ago and to see it all go as badly as feared.
Sad thread from a contract writer (I think–he’s not at Valve) on the project :
John Walker’s cynical questions turned out to be right.