He was the first to make something and its extremely hard to compete vs the entrenched giant. Also he was the only one fighting for PC gamers so we had to accept the abuse or get no games.
Yep.
And it's especially difficult to compete with the entrenched giant when that giant actually doesn't suck while some of the storefronts going up against it absolutely do, both in features and as toxic companies.
I’m not quite sure they have “done nothing”. They have made a digital storefront that other storefronts strive for, they have help with Linux compatibility with windows only games, have released a few bits of awesome hardware every now and then. I think this is what happens when you are not beholden to shareholders and the mantra “make line go up at all costs”
It's called making a product/service for their customers instead of for the shareholders bank balance.
The American automotive strategy
You mean the Japanese one after the Americans shot themselves in the foot over and over?
Valves business strategy is called something close to a monopoly.
These kinds of comments are just silly. Explain how Valve has a monopoly.
Nowadays pretty much every game is only available on Steam.
If a game isn't sold on Steam, It isn't going to sell well.
Because of the huge amount of Valve fanboys who only buy games if they are on Steam.
Games on other stores might as well not exist.
And more, if a game even dares to launch on a different store, it would garner unfavour of all those Valve fanboys and hurt their sales even if afterwards it does launch on Steam.
It is a user enforced monopoly.
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.
But that's in the open. You said they have hidden activities as well. What are they hiding?
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.
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.
Just wait till he dies and the next person in charge decides to go public to make a quick buck. That'll begin the immediate enshitification of Steam. How many years do we got till he croaks? Ten? Fifteen? Better hope we have a better alternative before then.
I'm not going to use something that's shitty now in hopes it will be better later in order to avoid using something that's better now out of fear it might become shitty later.
If Steam becomes shitty I have no issue dropping it and pirating my already paid for collection.
We are on lemmy, a decentralized and open source platform. Steam is closed as much as reddit is.
Promoting gambling to kids and use the profits to buy multiple mega yachts is peak scum.
Some people hate all rich people regardless of what they have gotten due to their work.
Hint: :q!
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