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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

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

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        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.

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        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.