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Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad?
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Because they are one of the few mega companies that hasn’t shrinkflated, enshittified, or otherwise crumbled the quality of their offering. Haven’t sold out the privacy of their customer base to advertising companies, and are generally good to deal with for customers and developers.
It’s not a secret formula that no other company can learn from. It’s as simple as not being dicks IMO.
For some reason, most companies seem to grow too a certain threshold at which they sell their souls to profit and will self destruct to get more of it. Steam thankfully isn’t one of them….. yet.
They're not beholden to public investors. If they go public or sell to a public company it will change.
If Gaben leaves or dies, Valve is probably fucked.
Maybe they might actually moderating their forums and getting rid of the bigots and fascists though.
He has a son who will supposedly take over, but we'll have to see how that goes when it happens.
I thought his son has already taken the helm and had the same mentality as his dad?
That will be like a whale-fall event for all the skittering bottom feeders of the finance abyss.