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Can anyone overthrow Steam on PC? "As long as Valve is independent and not a publicly traded company," analyst says it looks impossible (www.gamesradar.com)

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[–] TALL421@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ehh, I'm a big fan of valve but their hands are not perfectly clean. They do run the gambling machine for a shitfuck ton of money, even putting aside the rest of steam.

Now ofc, that whole "the rest of steam" part is still there and is obviously their main income, I recognize. And MOST importantly, fuck Sweeny and that dogshit other place. I just think we do give valve maybe not enough discredit sometimes?

[–] Mikina@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

I'm not saying they don't have problems, and you're right.

It's still the best we have, while GoG is awesomer, they don't have everything, plus there's also the massive work done for Proton that singlehandedly saved Linux gaming, that they could have made proprietary, especially for SteamDeck.

As a developer, they also do take a massive cut.

But I'd say that's minor compared to how it would look if it was owned by i.e Microsoft. And in how capitalism os turning out, it is a pretty rare sight.

I hope Gabe will at least last through the inevitable switch to cloud based gaming, that will probably start happening soon. I wonder what will they do.