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Steam works great while the benevolent dictator (Gabe) is still alive and in direct control. What happens to the company and its services once he dies is extre
by giobox 2y ago
Steam works great while the benevolent dictator (Gabe) is still alive and in direct control.
What happens to the company and its services once he dies is extremely concerning to me given depth of my own investment now in game licences on the platform. Things may not be so rosy if/when Steam is sold to a publicly traded parent and has to do boring things like deliver quarterly growth for shareholders etc.
Would a Steam/Valve owned and run by Microsoft be as good? It might not be Microsoft in the end of course, but that question is going to come up a lot sooner than a lot of Steam fans probably realise, especially as Gabe ages out.
Big box games generally had very little of these types of concerns.