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Steam keeps on winning (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 1 year ago by Carighan to c/games
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From the opinion piece:

Last year, I pointed out how many big publishers came crawlin' back to Steam after trying their own things: EA, Activision, Microsoft. This year, for the first time ever, two Blizzard games released on Steam: Overwatch and Diablo 4.

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[–] cottonmon 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Has there been any news at all on who the potential successors are?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Read somewhere that his son who has a similar philosophy was going to take over

[–] cottonmon 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

First time hearing about this. Hope it works out.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Because nepotism usually works out amazingly and never goes badly. /s

[–] cottonmon 4 points 1 year ago

I looked it up and apparently Gray Newell doesn't work at Valve, so it's actually unlikely that he's going to be the successor.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

So steam is a family owned company?