It’s all just a healthy business with big margins and not being braindead.
Exactly. When I was little, the most accepted and loved buisnesses weren’t the ones that mass produced shit and tried to push it down your throat, but the ones that were healthy both for themselves and the community. My country was a bick backwards back then, yes. Sad that it shows with this. Anyway, this is pretty much what Valve is doing. It bring back some value to community, works for it’s users while still not being idiotic and keeping profits on stable level.
You mention Deck and SteamOS - yes, these are exactly what you say, a bite into a niche that was filled with dissapointment by other people. But you omit that what they provided with these is a great product that people actually love and feel it’s price is justified. The quality, usefullness and price align, according to most with slight advantage in the first two.
Fuckedness of cheering on Valve and Valve vs Epic
Honestly, this is nonsensical. If you are bullied by five guys, and the sixth one pretty much ignores you, sometimes protecting you for money, of course you’re gonna see the sixth one as a savior,
And Epic is a no-go due to exclusives and hopeless UX. Steam does all it can to show you what users think about product. Epic does all it can to show you what companies think about product, cutting user reviews altogether. Steam is somewhat snappy, Epic loads forever. Honestly, Epic just feels hostile to me as a user. So yeah, their free games are nice, but that’s it, I am not gonna spend money on there. It’s not shilling for Steam if Steam actually just cares about the UX.
Gabe not being saint
Yeah, he’s not, but he has firm grip on reality and looks beyond the horizon. At this point, Gabe pretty much doesn’t say anything in terms of what gets done in Valve, just keeps the main ruleset in place - and that’s why people are afraid of his death. Will the next person upkeep them or will they become corporate shills? Will they go for IPO or whatever it’s called?
And useless fearmongering with what-if’s doesn’t work as long as there’s not a pattern you can fall on. We can expect Gaben to tolerate gambling further, this is an actual bad side to him. But there’s no trace of anything suggesting cash grabs.
As different scriptures of the past tell us, don’t make an idol for yourself. It’s a build up for a disappointment. Get most of them as a consumer, but don’t be blind of the ways they don’t even act on the market, but how they shape it.
This is true. Yet again, Valve mostly shapes the market for consumer, whereas other companies shape it against them. For now.
Overall I agree, but there are a few flaws.
Exactly. When I was little, the most accepted and loved buisnesses weren’t the ones that mass produced shit and tried to push it down your throat, but the ones that were healthy both for themselves and the community. My country was a bick backwards back then, yes. Sad that it shows with this. Anyway, this is pretty much what Valve is doing. It bring back some value to community, works for it’s users while still not being idiotic and keeping profits on stable level.
You mention Deck and SteamOS - yes, these are exactly what you say, a bite into a niche that was filled with dissapointment by other people. But you omit that what they provided with these is a great product that people actually love and feel it’s price is justified. The quality, usefullness and price align, according to most with slight advantage in the first two.
Honestly, this is nonsensical. If you are bullied by five guys, and the sixth one pretty much ignores you, sometimes protecting you for money, of course you’re gonna see the sixth one as a savior,
And Epic is a no-go due to exclusives and hopeless UX. Steam does all it can to show you what users think about product. Epic does all it can to show you what companies think about product, cutting user reviews altogether. Steam is somewhat snappy, Epic loads forever. Honestly, Epic just feels hostile to me as a user. So yeah, their free games are nice, but that’s it, I am not gonna spend money on there. It’s not shilling for Steam if Steam actually just cares about the UX.
Yeah, he’s not, but he has firm grip on reality and looks beyond the horizon. At this point, Gabe pretty much doesn’t say anything in terms of what gets done in Valve, just keeps the main ruleset in place - and that’s why people are afraid of his death. Will the next person upkeep them or will they become corporate shills? Will they go for IPO or whatever it’s called?
And useless fearmongering with what-if’s doesn’t work as long as there’s not a pattern you can fall on. We can expect Gaben to tolerate gambling further, this is an actual bad side to him. But there’s no trace of anything suggesting cash grabs.
This is true. Yet again, Valve mostly shapes the market for consumer, whereas other companies shape it against them. For now.