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You are right, Valve being private removes a lot of the incentives to mess with Steam in ways I would consider negative.
by Kolja 3y ago
You are right, Valve being private removes a lot of the incentives to mess with Steam in ways I would consider negative.
- pixl97 3y agoEventually the people that run it now will age and die, and one day the vampires will move in to suck its corpse dry. May not be our problem but will be someone's problem.
- TapWaterBandit 3y agoOn the one hand it will be sad if Steam declines as it is overall a fantastic service for gamers. On the other, they definitely occupy a close-to-monopoly like position in the market so it might be good to have that opened up.
- hiatus 3y ago> they definitely occupy a close-to-monopoly I think this has changed, at least in my view recently. I find a lot more of my time spent on games in Xbox Gamepass than on Steam these days and have a bunch more launchers as publishers have pushed games to their own platforms.
- xeonmc 3y agoEventually the people that run it now will age and die, and one day the vampires will move in to suck its corpse dry. May not be our problem but will be someone's problem. There's gotta be a fourth verse here that completes it.
- jareklupinski 3y agoAnyway, thanks, Past. Signed, The Present... P.S. Maybe The Future can stop them?
- meristohm 3y agoWhy put off today what can be done to stop them?
- yencabulator 3y agoI offer the classic "This too shall pass."
- oliwarner 3y agoThey're a storefront that charges ~30% and they're pretty dominant in their market. They make enough money —they're practically printing it— to never need investment, and they don't seem to piss it away like your FAANGs. Which is all to say, even down the line, why would they risk it all for more money? Might seem naive but private ownership allows them to maintain this course.
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- DanielHB 3y agoI wonder how much money they have in the bank compared to Nintendo. Main problem of being too successful is that you can't let money sit in the bank, especially if you are a public company.
- treyd 3y agoIt's possible that the company could be converted into a worker cooperative, which wouldn't be much of a stretch given their current (largely hierarchyless) company structure. There is no reason it wouldn't work.