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Steam already has a fair few shitty issues like its promotion of gambling.
Gabe will pass one day and the enshittification will happen, it's not like Steam is immune at end of day. People need to stop glorifying companies.
So what you're saying is that we should glorify Gabe? Understood!
No such thing as an ethical billionaire and everything. Steam just lost a class action antitrust lawsuit and will have to issue refunds to a bunch of developers and customers. Overall GabeN seems like a less-evil billionaire though and truly seems to enjoy games (and knives). Steam will definitely go downhill once he's not leading it and we'll all lose a great platform that's defined PC gaming for a decade or three..
It's a shame gaben.tv is no longer up, but it's memory lives on
It is possible but for things like a steam deck you just move on to the next store or piracy. It's so open you get trapped by convenience not by encryption or premium features.
You're thinking of now not the future. It's a great device at the moment. But it'll become out dated with time and it'll be easy for the next steam deck to be shit or for shitty practices to come into play.
And using the example of piracy/other stores means every device is fine. Just hack the device/remove the shitty practices and you're good to go whether it's a steam deck, Windows, Etc.
Devices will be outdated anyways. But the steam deck you don't have to hack. You just enable things with touch buttons.
Valve learned from other consoles they get hacked anyways, so they enabled you to do all the mods - while at the same time you won't have to fiddle with pirated games for a fee. Personally I don't think this strategy will change - and if they release a more closed steam decknin the future piracy is an option again. On another device then.
Yup who's ready for some "Steam Premium". Only for 5 dollars a month! You get exclusive deals for games you don't care about!
We're also locking remote play behind Steam Premium. No wait, "Remote Play Max"! For only 10 dollars a month or the Steam Premium bundle deal for 9 dollars you can get up to 120 fps while playing with your friends!
Buddy it could be so much worse. Steam premium will be the ability to download all of the games you already own whenever you want
Good God it hurts "look at all these games they bought once 10 years ago and are currently not being monetized by us! That's money on the table!"