What's funny is that Valve didn't do some backdoor anti-trust shit that Google, Microsoft, or Apple has a history of doing.
All Valve did was focus on the end user so hard that the competition looked extremely bad.
And they aren't beholden to share holders. Wonder if there's a connection. 🤔
It was telling being at the first Steam Dev Days and hearing again and again how Valve distinctly, publicly, never wanted any exclusivity on anything coming to steam, they'd never ask for it and it wasn't something they were interested in. Same on VR, they never wanted to 'own' it or it's ecosystem, they just wanted to see the medium grow. Valve doesn't do everything perfect, no one does, but these points earned a tremendous amount of respect from me.
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.
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.
Anti-aging research needs to hurry the f up and keep Gabon around
Yup, one of the few products that has actually grown more user friendly and value-laden over time
Just look at him, he's an f'in wizard
I hope Valve never goes public
I'm not here to disagree, but until I see 3, he's not cool with me.
Now if they can have Kingdom Hearts series...
I wish
"Sure, here's a port of MoM, and a Steam-only spinoff that won't make any sense in the story for another 5 years!"
True, they already passed the big 3 hurdle so valve is able to continue it.
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