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“And then suddenly the law firm disappeared.
They hired a big scary law firm from San Francisco.
“It’s not a legal strategy, it’s basically trying to intimidate you,” Newell says.
I was pretty close to going personally bankrupt.
We went all in.
It’s like, there was no money left.”
Vivendi responded by dumping giant piles of documents in Valve’s lap - all in Korean.
“It’s like, ‘Oh, look, they ordered sandwiches again,’ right?
And then we found the needle in the haystack, and that changed things quite dramatically.”
That needle was discovered by a summer intern who’s only identified as “Andrew” in the documentary.
And I said, ‘Are you sure it says that?’
And he said, ‘Yeah, that’s what it says.'"
Obviously, destroying evidence is a bit of a no-no in the legal world.
You don’t get to contest any of those.
And thus, Valve survived to change PC gaming forever.
