Hopefully Amazon doesn't buy steam now.
this post was submitted on 19 Feb 2025
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I went to their website, it reminded me of AWS.
At least prime video looks half decent.
Valve can make some good calls, but do you guys -really- think enshittification is not coming for it ever? It's just a matter of time.
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It’s weird how gamers see Gabe Newel as “their” billionaire, and valve as “their” corporation, and convince themselves that this makes it ok and ethical to be a billionaire and a massive corporation bordering on monopoly. Stop behaving like these corporations are your sports teams.
Their „sports teams” are vessels for billionaires to make more money too. They have barely anything at all in common with sports.
True, we shouldn't be 'backing' them.
Consumerism and capitalism essentially dictate that large-scale gaming can't exist without publishers. Studios need to get funded, and most developers struggle with tasks like publishing, marketing, analytics, and handling payments. While a company could theoretically manage all of this itself, it demands a lot of specialized talent, which schools only teach to a limited extent in a manner relevant to the gaming industry.
Publishers (almost) can't help but be somewhat offensive to the public. They are there to make money and (the good ones, at least) put money back into the market so they can make more money.
Valve is less offensive than many/most. Gabe was an underdog story. Valve released some damn fine games before they primarily became publishers.
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