Valve has become greedy with Steam

Steam, Valve's innovative store to buy games for download, during it's inception Valve was invovled in a legal fight with their greedy publisher Sierra owned by Vivendi, at the time Valve appeared as the small developer fighting the big greedy corporation for the right to get their fair share of the profits.

In the beginning of Steam Valve has said it will help small developers sell their games on Steam, finally small developers will have a place to sell their games without having to bare the price of getting involved with a publisher who will take a lot of their profits.

Today it seems Valve has forgetton this philosophy, and once again small developers can't truly get their games on the Steam store.

I know of two examples, S2Games with Heroes of Newerth and Riot with League of Legends, both are free to play games which are on the rise and yet you can't get them on Steam.

Why is that happening? Has Valve become greedy and are blocking uprising developers to compete with Valve's soon to be released Dota 2? Personally I think Heroes of Newerth is a better game than Dota 2, is Valve trying to give Dota 2 an edge to be the only moba game on Steam?

DotA 2 will enjoy Steam large audience and it will be helpful to Dota 2 not to have it's competitors on Steam therefore many players will never know that there are good free alternatives to Dota 2 because many players only know games that are available on Steam.

I made this topic on Steam general discussion and it was deleted after a day without any message to me on why it was deleted.

Valve, Gabe Newell, take a look on what is happening, you have become exactly like Vivendi, doing the same practice they did and also blocking any disucssion about this on your community forums.

Can't get a Dota 2 key? Disappointed in Dota 2? Try HON

I used to play a lot of DotA, especially the "All Stars" version, it was around 2007, since then I haven't played much this type of games.

I tried League of Legends and never liked it much, when I heard the news about DotA 2 I thought I will give it a try when it comes out.

In September 2011 I heard of Heroes of Newerth, another moba type game that became free to compete with League of Legends, so I downloaded it and I been playing it a lot in the past 3 months.

Heroes of Newerth is a PC only game, and feels like the true successor to the original DotA and it is also a lot better.

I don't like the DotA 2 graphics, it looks too much like a baby cartoon, DotA 2 graphics are very similar to Team Fortress 2 and I never liked TF2 graphics.

Ironically I thought Battlefield 3 will be the game I would spend most of my time playing these months, but BF3 is a huge disappointment.

So, if you are looking for a good game, that requires teamwork, that has VOIP, good graphics, good art, fun gameplay, new content every week, a lot of depth and is PC only (unlike BF3) then try Heroes of Newerth, it's free.

To have a look at the game before downloading you can watch live gameplay video of HON here

If you like HON then you should subscribe to the S2Games YouTube channel, they have hero spotlights videos there which help you learn how to use heroes and introduce new heroes they add.


If you want to see competitve games you then go to http://honcast.com and honcast youtube channel