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Steam now warns you if a game you're about to buy is already owned by someone in your Steam Family. (programming.dev)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 7 months ago (2 children)

If Steam or Valve ever goes public and IPOs, I'm gonna fucking kill myself.

They seem to be the only ones who aren't like going through an enshitification cycle right now.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It all comes down to who succeedes Gabe after his stepping down.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

I'm glad that it seems like he's extended the longevity of his life by losing a lot of weight. Have you seen him now? Looks amazing for his age. I think if he continued where he was, he might've passed away at some point or be in a worse condition.

He needs as much time as possible to decide what he's going to do after he's gone.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

That's a little dramatic.

I don't think they'll ever become an IPO.

But it's more likely that if Gabe doesn't have someone or something in mind that keeps Steam on track, there's few companies that can buy it. Microsoft could acquire it. Sony could acquire it. Epic games could acquire it.

Companies that would have no care or clue in how to keep Steam as is.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago

Safest option would be to turn Valve into a foundation, similar to Zeiss: The company owns itself thus can't be bought out, statutory stipulations go along the lines of "Make sure we don't go bankrupt, do great optics, funnel some money to the University of Jena as well as less well off workers in the city". No grand charitable aspirations besides being a good citizen as per 1846 bourgeois values (though that'd be Gabe's choice), otherwise just continue as they've been doing. Make sure all stakeholders (incl. gamers, or at least Valve customers) have standing to enforce those statutes.