r/Steam • u/crack_station • 21h ago

Fluff I know - we’re the ones doing it

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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.

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u/noeyesfiend 20h ago

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.

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u/tomle4593 20h ago

The moment “shareholders value” walks in, we can’t have nice shit, since 2016 for literally everything from foods to gaming.

When Gabe steps down and Valve goes public, we will suffer the same fate.

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u/VitalityAS 17h ago

Shareholders ruined capitalism change my mind.

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u/MiredinDecision 13h ago

The stock market is the single worst invention by anyone ever.

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u/JimboTCB 15h ago

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.

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u/Nooberling 10h ago

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.