This community when US tech is brought up

I will switch to GOG or any other store the second they officially support and fund Linux gaming.

How Newell’s latest yacht? They still allow gambling in CS? Cool cool, nothing to see here.

At least he had the underdog story having companies try to beat him down.

Still unsure if he came from generational wealth, but at least there’s a story there.

Doesn’t every budding company face competition when they grow? I don’t know what an underdog story has to do with his exploitative business practices and his billionaire lifestyle.

Getting children addicted to illegal gambling isn’t exactly inspiring.

Yeah i’m not looking for inspiring. Guy made a company, made some good games, came within an inch of getting trounced by big bro, turned into a publishing empire then made some bad decisions.

Then we got steamdeck pushing Linux.

If not for Steam, we’re just be sitting in Epic and Blizzard’s and Microsoft’s laps.

It would be really cool if someone did a non-profit publisher, but capitalism just fucking sucks and everytime we get something nice it has to turn to shit.

Billionaire worship is so cringe. People are acting like this guy is a god just because he sells them video games. This guy might be the most evil billionaire as he sells gambling to children and manchildren.

I think Steam might be the only private company in this.

Really says a lot.

Koch Industries and Purdue Pharma salute you in your service to attempted sanewashing of private corporations.

It does.

Private companies are - often - not driven by pure greed. The people work hard for their company to be successful and they are much less likely to fuck it all over with a stupid move.

Public companies, however, are controlled by a bunch of money motivated monkeys that couldn’t give a rats ass about a company’s future. They’ll bleed it all dry and go to the next company.

Very true, sometimes they are also motivated by their hatred of gay and trans people.

Ye every private business hates them gays and trans people and wants to see them dead.

Go outside, touch some grass you lunatic.

Dude, Steam is selling games you don’t own. How greedy is that?

Digital companies sell digital goods and services. Shocker :o

least socialist lemmy user

Like most game platforms do, except Valve actually looks after their customers.

What, like ebay and amazon selling stuff they don’t own? They all get a commission for marketing, not all of the money.

I sometimes feel an anxiety when pondering what will happen when daddy Gabe isn’t here to keep the wolves at bay.

gabe is a very smart person, if he doesnt have a post death plan for steam i would be immensely surprised.

The fact he is doing research on BCIs, I like to imagine his plan is digitizing himself so he can live forever on the net.

Basically what Cave Johnson did, indirectly.

All hail the immortal cyber-lord Gaben.

That’s my fear too , whoever gets their hand on valve will decide the future of pc gaming kinda , I just hope it won’t get sold to ea , riot , tencent or whatever

Honestly, I’ve been weaning myself off Steam for awhile now. It’s great what they did to make PC gaming more accessible, but I also feel like Steam itself is an unnecessary dependency for most video games.

There should be protocols that games can implement to integrate with launchers and organize playing online.