The Team Spirit manager unexpectedly defended Valve

Dmitry "Korb3n" Belov said that there is no one better than Valve in esports, and even despite some controversial decisions, they turn out to be correct in the future.

The manager of Team Spirit said this during a broadcast on Twitch.

"In fact, Valve is better in terms of esports... It is clear that there are some young people from mobile phones, and some others. In theory, for a long, long time - no. And a lot of Valve's decisions, despite the fact that everyone has their shortcomings, Valve's are very correct decisions, no matter what happens. They have already survived crises, and released new games and everything else.

I remember they made a mistake the first time when they released CS Source on the engine of the second Hal Life, and no one played CS Source, everyone continued to play 1.6. But they took this experience into account in the future, but this is also an interesting milestone"

According to him, in the long term, Valve remains the best in esports. He explained that the company had made mistakes and controversial decisions, but they always took this into account in the future. According to him, Valve managed to survive several crises and even the release of unsuccessful games. He recalled Artifact, which he called a good game, but criticized the monetization.

Nevertheless, Korb3n is concerned about the situation with Deadlock, and is not sure that Valve's new game will be able to become as popular as Dota 2.

Recall that earlier Korb3n hinted that Team Spirit could go to The International 2025 without Denis "Larl" Sigitov.