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[–] [email protected] 257 points 1 year ago (11 children)

If you wonder why public companies with billions in revenue can't make a Steam competitor is because they can't think long term, being a private company allows Valve to just work on what they want and grow If they need to

[–] FrankTheHealer 36 points 1 year ago (3 children)

See also: Reddit's direction to eventually IPO

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Has that happened yet? I thought it was supposed to have happened by now

[–] Dark_Blade 12 points 1 year ago

It needs to be viable first, which obviously won’t happen when the management keeps stumbling into PR nightmares weekly.

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