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The "don't be a soulless public traded company" strategy
The "Gaben wins by doing nothing" strategy.
damn, Gaben looking real sexy in white.
Have you seen him lately, semaglutide has done wonders for him.
Which is good, as the gaming industry is officially dead once we lose Valve to corporate profit chasing as soon as he passes
dsfgasfsaf
Valve support has historically been pretty awesome. They even replaced an index controller nearly a year out of warranty. Granted their controllers have a shit switch and they break after a few hundred hours, but good on support for being bros.
dsfgasfsaf
That is why Gaben must be protected at all costs.
What if we simply extended steam warranty and support to Gabe’s brain
Sony: we make so much money selling these games to a giant pc audience;
Also Sony: what if we restricted them geographically a huge amount and require them to go through extra steps so we can (???) which allows us to (??? + Harvest data)?
Steam doing the right thing while Sony continues to be incredibly stupid.
The miracles you can perform when you don’t have shareholders.
It's not shareholders specifically, but management that doesn't give a shit about the company long term.
The business has a fiduciary duty to benefit the shareholders, but it doesn't have to be short term only, or at the cost of long term benefits.
Most publicly traded companies end up with leadership who are only interested in justifying their employment through the next earnings call or making sure the stock price has gone up between when they last got options and when they next vest.
Valve does good not because they don't have shareholders, but because their leadership is not gonna get fired for thinking about next year instead of next quarter. So they don't squeeze the consumers for every dime, so people stick with them, and developers stay even though their fee schedule is not the best because they have all the people.
thats how they get piracy
Sony really shooting themselves in the foot.
I love this green text because valve really just be doing the bare minimum most of the time but everyone else is just so shit in comparison
I feel like GOG deserves at least some respect. They don't have a perfect track record, by any means, but I find them at least reliable, decent sales, have gotten some fun freebies out of them in the past.
And, hey, shopping cart. Which shouldn't be a selling point, I'm fucking flabbergasted that it came to this on any platform, but that's another point above EPIC.
I agree although in some respects it feels like a dead app.
At least it's either optional or can use 3rd party app (Heroic for example)
Wait, Ghost of Tsushima is available for pc?
It is on the 16th, but you've been able to pre-order for a while. It's pre-order folks that are getting refunded.
Nice, been wanting to play that game for a while now.
Just note that a PS account is required to access the MULTIPLAYER section of the game but as far as everyone is concerned singleplayer doesn’t require one.
I don't think I ever used multi-player in that game back on ps4. I didn't even remember it had one.