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I agree. Valve is one of the few companies I would deem "good" or at least not evil. I suspect this is because the company is privately owned and their CEO, Gab
by hgs3 3y ago
I agree. Valve is one of the few companies I would deem "good" or at least not evil. I suspect this is because the company is privately owned and their CEO, Gabe Newell, is a software engineer and not an MBA. He's also a hardcore gamer which means he's a user of the end product like the rest of us.
- hef19898 3y agoAgree, except the bit about MBAs. After all, some of the worst scandals in the last two decades where driven and caused by pure-blood engineers.
- bee_rider 3y agoI like Steam. It is much better than pretty much every other game store platform thingy. I do sort of wonder—Valve is notoriously slow with their development. Maybe that’s an advantage for a platform developer. They seems to make surprisingly few shit moves, but then, they also don’t make many moves at all. Either they are on the same enshittification trajectory as everybody else, just moving along more slowly. Or they can see the other platforms steal their ideas, sprint ahead in to shitsville, and say “ok let’s not do that.”
- red-iron-pine 3y agoSmall org + a huge and VERY responsive -- often negatively -- user base. Some dude will run roughshod over the worst potholes and never say a peep to city hall (or even vote), but if their copy of Steam crashes twice a week they'll get on every platform known to man and complain.
- fbdab103 3y agoWhich is why I am fearful of the future. When Gabe retires, what happens then? I suspect Microsoft/Google/EA/anybody have already offered sweet-heart billion dollar acquisitions offers. Will the next CEO continue to turn down those deals?