Private company with long-term strategy VS public company chasing short-term profits to pump stock prices for shareholders.
His company is working damn hard to make sure you believe they don't do nothing. All billionares are scum.
What do you believe they do?
They do what every for profit company in the world does, they try to make as much money as possible and they spend money in advertising.
The American automotive strategy
You mean the Japanese one after the Americans shot themselves in the foot over and over?
You'd think it wouldn't be that hard for publishers with billions of dollars to hire enough competent devs for enough time to make a halfway decent storefront, especially when they don't even have to reinvent the wheel on a lot of UX and marketing research that's already been done for them by Steam existing as long as it's had.
That none of them have even come close to that is a monument to their incompetence.
Valves business strategy is called something close to a monopoly.
These kinds of comments are just silly. Explain how Valve has a monopoly.
I can't really get my head around why people dislike Gabe Newell. As best I can tell, he's been a fantastic steward for Steam.
This is why Gabe is the goat
<is billionaire <owns yatchs and subs People still wiping his ass with their noses?
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