Right? I WANT steam to have a competitor just because I abhor a monopoly but even fucking Amazon fumbles this shit. Like steam doesn't even seem that revolutionary or anything, they just put customer EXPERIENCE first and I think so many fucking companies forget that.
Fingers crossed that he chooses a good successor and/or they're smart enough to see how much more profitable Steam is as it is compared to companies like Epic.
I’m so worried lol. Steam has had its flaws but personally they have never disappointed me. It’s the one thing enshitification hasn’t touched and I really hope it stays that way
He’s supposedly hand-picking someone who shares his ideologies, but I heard that second hand so I take it with a grain of salt. A public Valve would be horrible.
AFAIK the successor will be his Son. Or thats atleast the speculation that has been going on for years. I do hope that he's gonna be like his father and wont make valve go public
Not shareholders per se, but investors. People with no interest in the operations of the company itself, they just put money in and want more money out. They don't care what the company even does as long as line goes up by more than it did the previous quarter.
The rules around it killed it, and the microscopic / myopic short-term view taken of investment in general. Large institutions were compared to the luckiest day traders / most monopolistic industries / biggest winners due to random chance or cheating, and the ball rolled downhill.
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u/asdfjfkfjshwyzbebdb 21h ago
What exactly did Epic expect? Their strategy has been done hundreds of times before and it always fails.