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"all Valve has to do is remove the game from Steam." And take the reputation hit that would go along with that. Valve's business is 30% technology and 70% the
by usrusr 3y ago
"all Valve has to do is remove the game from Steam."
And take the reputation hit that would go along with that. Valve's business is 30% technology and 70% the reputation of being much less untrustworthy than the alternatives. If they lose that they can close shop.
- shultays 3y agoValve's business is its user base, as long as it has that I think they will survive.
- usrusr 3y agoHow are reputation and user base not the same?
- shultays 3y ago99.9999% of user base won't care about a few game Valve removed from its store. And they will care even less if they decide to not publish a game at all like they did in this instance. Valve is not really losing any reputation among users for not releasing some games Valve might lose some reputation among the devs if they keep rejecting or removing games but that is far from reality, at least for now. Things perhaps might change if game studios starts picking up AI generated stuff more and more and Valve decides to blanket ban them. But even then the users of Steam is a juicy target for devs and it is a hard market to ignore.