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[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Gabe Newell is the least shitty billionaire I can think of, I'm not sure what he does for philanthropy though but at least it doesn't seem like he tries to influence the country for his benefit.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh wow I've never really considered Gabe's wealth, he would be exceedingly wealthy, wouldn't he?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Google said he's worth just shy of 4 billion.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I love Valve, but I really don't understand why gamers give Steam so much praise. It is a closed platform filled with DRM on which you don't truely own a copy of the game (unlike gog), and on top of that they take a 30% cut of every sales and transactions which is enormous for small studios to pay. Support is poor and the algo/front page distribution of traffic and promotions is a black box.

Don't get me wrong, Gabe seems like a sensible human, and Steam is successful because it offered such a great service to players. But it's been almost 20years now since Steam, and I have not seen Valve slow down the greed. They don't need the money as this point. They don't need 30% of every game sale on PC. This is just as greedy as the other company people hate.