During the Game Developer Conference 2025, Monica Harvington, one of the founders of the valve and its first chief marketing officer, once threatened Sierra on half -life rights. Earlier, of course, it became today’s Golithing Felling Company.
Although it is interesting in itself. Another interesting snap that he shared about it was about Gabie Neville, in the early 1998 to the early 2000s, her eyes were placed on the social network. “Like Facebook, Instagram, or X, Gabie had interesting ideas that had nothing to do with the software,” said Harrington. “I mean, with sports – and some of them were really interesting.”
Really really interesting, this is why PC Gamer’s Ted Lichfield asked about it when he sat down for interview with him after the conversation. Herrington revealed the bombing that, if a passenger goes back and steps on butterfly, we can all scream at each other on the social media platform owned by the valve.
“One of them who just killed me – because it was not at all in sports context – an interactive social center … I’m trying to remember some of the talks at the moment, but he was not talking like a community that is on steam or something like this.”
Herrington says both of them and Nauel had a strong nose of the nose where gaming was going on – and how much could it be. But they Plus He knew that usually the Internet also had the power to become a very effective social hub. She talks about it almost in terms of predictions:
“What he was very familiar with – and I was – it was that the Internet could be an incredibly social place, and people were not thinking about it at the time. You know that people were doing transactions, tech companies … they were not thinking about psychology and its social aspects.”
That’s not wrong. To put a pin in the timeline, MySpace debuted in 2003 (maybe he could comfortably rest calmly), Facebook reached Twitter in 2004 in 2004, Tumblrr in 2007, and Instagram dropped in 2010. The valve had raised a finger on the pulse of a rotating network of social media giants, and eventually was open to the bottom, and was going to go down the knee. Don’t let
“Where Gabie’s brain was about to expand this social element, but not in the gaming context … I think it probably didn’t look like Facebook or what happened, but yes.”
The only question is what is it called? The steam will not change the gaming forever until 2003, so Gabi ‘N’ may be named. In some alternative universe, we are all posting status, or the arguments are in the ventures. Still, as the steam barely feels Amazon is trying muscle on the corner of the market? The valve has probably made the right choice.
