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Man I've never really thought about how much having the wrong successor could fuck up the whole ecosystem.
I'm wondering the same thing for Valve and Gabe Newell.
definitely the case for Valve. Corporate vultures will be all over it the second he's gone.
If they both decide to step down around the same time, that's going to be wild few years.