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Steam keeps on winning (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 11 months ago by Carighan@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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From the opinion piece:

Last year, I pointed out how many big publishers came crawlin' back to Steam after trying their own things: EA, Activision, Microsoft. This year, for the first time ever, two Blizzard games released on Steam: Overwatch and Diablo 4.

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[-] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

Publicly traded companies, which we've all learned to hate and not take as our friends, are in no way comparable to Steam which is privately owned. Gabe Newell is in no way forced by shareholders to push for increased profits, the company has no interest in pushing for enshittification unlike VC funded startups.

[-] DingoBilly@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Thank goodness Gabe will live forever and Steam will always be a private company then!

Oh... Shit.

This is exactly what I mean. It's like people just have no concept of the future. Point me to any private company that's been around a long time and is still not shit.