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Gabe Newell reportedly snapped 'What the f*** do I pay you for if that's your opinion?' at Valve lawyer pushing for more content moderation on Steam (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] Medic8eme@piefed.ca 18 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Billionaires should be extinct. Even GabeN.

[–] auzy1@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

So what are you doing about steam?

  1. Are you contributing to wine? Probably not
  2. Are you helping develop good gaming hardware.. nope
  3. Are you writing an alternative store? Nope
  4. Are you providing gaming libraries.. Nope
  5. Are you lobbying to defend gamers rights? Nope
  6. Are you testing games for Wine to maintain the AppDB? Probably nope
  7. Are you making it easy to distribute games on multiple platforms? Nope
  8. Are you helping small gaming developers add major features to their app with a few lines of code (such as multiplayer)? Nope

The reality is, Linux mainly at this time on the desktop is only succeeding still thanks to steam. If any other store were in charge (including GOG), we'd be still stuck in windows, or worse (a console like nintendo). If Steam wasn't available, I wouldn't feel comfortable using Linux for my main desktop (even though, I play all my games on a rog ally X)

Those of us who played games on Linux before Steam was available will tell you how painful it was. Steam changed things completely, and offered an experience that just works (tm). Steam will also no doubt be one of the single biggest driving forces to get ARM on Linux up to snuff (thanks to Steam Frame) with X86 compatibility, in particular performance

Even for those who have been on steam for a decade or longer, old games are STILL working, because they've maintained runtime libraries and such to assist with that.

Gabe didn't get to where he was by dodgy tactics. He got there by providing a service gamers want, and by running a tight ship. He also stays out of politics and from my understanding, is actually known for being a good guy too and is transparent (other than about HL3). Unlike other billionaires, he's also not booking out whole islands intrusively either for a wedding, to flaunt their money.

He's a billionaire sure.. but, the average pay at Steam is also far above average, so its not like he's exploiting labor. And unlike companies like Oracle, the working conditions seem to be far better too. And unlike modern Apple, Steam is about creating products which are good, not simply seem good (which I respect a lot).

[–] auzy1@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Also, i'd add ironically, unless he blatantly gave away his money, the other option realistically would be to hire lots of developers to write games.. Which, would simply generate more income and turn them into a bigger monopoly..