8 Years later my Steam Link is still getting regular updates

I still use mine just about everyday.

Same! That thing is so useful.

Uh! I gotta find mine and try this! Thanks!

I just read in Wikipedia that Valve is privately helded.

There must be something magical in the fact that they don’t need to feed their shareholders with mountains of cash every quarter, and actually focus on their customers, as happened in this post.

Easy answer. Valve prints money.

Twitter (sorry, X.com) is also privately held now so it’s not always a happy story :/

Ofc not, what you need to show is a public company that does not fuck over customers

And the fact is they still make a mountain of cash every quarter, just by focusing on their customers.

I don’t know about that. They run one of the most predatory examples of gambling in gaming.

The new EU ruling really brought to light how big of a problem the CS:GO gambling is.

Is gambling really that bad though? It’s voluntary. Valve isn’t forcing you to buy keys or cases if you don’t want them

but what about the latest investment fad like AI or NFTs? Won’t they think of the poor scammers?

And the fact is they still make a mountain of cash every quarter, just by focusing on their customers.

“Win-Win” for the win!

True, private companies are generally more focused on customer satisfaction, but that can suddenly change, for instance when the owner dies, and the new owners don’t share the same ideals.

Private companies have a certain single point of failure built-in by having often just one or sometimes a small number of owners.

Nobody really knows what will happen when Gabe dies.

I just hope that valve becomes a worker cooperative… That would be the most stable form of company that probaly stays focused on customer satisfaction long term, since workers tend to favor providing long-term profits via good service instead of short term gains, for high frequency traders.

Gabe-AI, it’s the only one I’d trust to run Valve. We need to preserve his personality starting today!

to be fair Sony still updates the ps3, i think

They only do it to make sure the latest Blu Rays work AFAIK. this is also how they get the decryption keys for the latest movies lol

Also to be fair they tried to kill PSN store on the PS3 but the resulting backlash made them realize to do so would kill customer faith in the PS4 and PS5 PSN stores and so they backed off. Nintendo could only get away with it because they already trained us not to trust their online stores and buy physical only. Since Steam doesn’t have a physical option they need to play their cards right.

Fun fact, they used to be public but Gabe took it back private after realizing how shitty it was having to answer to shareholders.

That’s an interesting piece of info

Maybe the Steam Link and Controller weren’t as popular as Valve hoped they would be, but damn everyone who still has them seems to love them. Maybe I’m biased because I still have my controller and love it, and I gave away my Steam link because my Deck can do that too, but my friend who received the link is loving it.

I loved my stream controller so much I recently bought a second on eBay

I never really liked the Steam Controller when it first came out. My Dad was actually the one that had gotten them and even he seemed to have set them aside after awhile, as they just collected dust for ages after that. I picked them up from him a few years back and I’ve started using them with my Steam Deck and they’re actually pretty nice, I get it now, though I kind of wish they still had analog sticks.

The Steam Controller is one of the best pieces of hardware I ever bought. There’s something incredibly chill about playing strategy games not originally meant for controller on the couch. I also genuinely like fiddling with cool setups and radial menus for it.