Valve On Viral Marketing And Leaks: 'everybody Assumes We Have Some...

You're probably thinking about this sort of stuff a lot more than Valve is.

A colleague and I recently travelled to Valve to get a behind-the-scenes look at the company's upcoming product launches. Before we entered the building, we were already discussing one of the products yet to be announced, the Steam Frame. For many, this announcement will not come as a complete surprise, as intrepid detectives glean information from even the slightest breadcrumb left by Valve in the months ahead of the launch.

This time, a trademark for the name 'Steam Frame' gave away the Deckard project's real name ahead of our visit, but Deckard rumours have been rife for years. Some more accurate than others, but generally not miles off when you piece it all together.

But is this some sort of clever scheme by Valve to drum up support or test out the popularity of ideas on dedicated fans?

No, apparently not. That's right from the horse's mouth, too, and if you take this as further proof of some sort of grand plan, I have a bridge to sell you.

Stood in a room surrounded by Valve engineers that drew the short straw in having to talk to press, I raised the question, how do they feel when someone gets near-definitive proof of something like the Steam Frame early?

Josh Hudman says, "Usually we all look around like, 'who leaked?'"

"Everybody assumes that we have some sort of like grand plan with our leaks," says Gabe Rowe, "and it's literally just somebody fat fingering something."

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Source: PC Gamer