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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Steam is a good product, though. As a user it's absolutely convenient. Games not on Steam won't be purchased by a majority of gamers.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

And it will be probably remain a good company while Gabe us around. But no one lasts forever. And that could be troublesome in the future. Don't get me wrong. I love steam. Have a steam deck. Buy about half of my games on their (a few on gog and rest on console). But it could be a problem in the future.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Far as I'm aware there are a ton of safety measures in place to keep Valve a private company

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I hope so. And I hope whoever eventually replaces Gabe and other behind the scenes higher ups are hand picked because they share the same love for gaming that the current people do.

Watching Gabe talk about playing Dota on the steam deck and making sure it was viable, you could just tell he loves games. He cares about the experience.

Sometimes that hinders things. Probably why we won't be getting a portal or half life 3. Because he doesn't see something matching the quality that those games achieved. And they also have done some stuff that I'm less fond of. I believe it was CS and TF2 that really started some of the loot crate random reward gambling type stuff. But all in all, the people at steam do currently seem to care about giving gamers a good experience.

I just hope that doesn't change.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It'll go to shit about 2 years after it goes public and has stock holders to answer to.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Dont worry you can keep access to your library for just $10 per month*

*to increase by an indescernable amount whenever we feel like it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Anti-aging research needs to hurry the f up and keep Gabon around

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And yet people keep arguing in favor of their monopoly 🤷

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I hate their monopoly, but every competitor sucks absolute ass. Epic Game Store gives me one or two free games per week, and I STILL don't use the platform because the platform is aweful.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The "monopoly" makes linux gaming next to flawless and push it forward ever year. Excuse me as I give them more money.

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