Lets pray valve never goes public
this post was submitted on 07 Dec 2025
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Why would they?
The fuck do they need investors for?
Depends on who gets the crown - or prices thereof - when Gabe passes. There are lots of cases where the beneficiary of an estate can't afford to keep the asset due to a lack of liquidity, and is forced to sell.
I'd say Zuckerberg's $77B disaster is not a forced mistake but a self-influcted wound. If anything, it's the Cambridge Analytica scandal that pushed him towards the rebrand they would have been better off without.
Steam refused to issue refunds for a long, long time. In the end they started allowing refunds for everyone because governments started requiring it and it was easier to just allow them for everyone than having to do the legal footwork to have different policies based on geography.
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I'm pretty reluctant to be this flattening towards Gabe Newell and Valve.
Once Google was seen as one of the good companies. "Googling" became synonimous with searching on the internet. Most if not all competitors went bankrupt. When Google was accused of monopolistic behavior, its fans treated it as an attack on "perfection". Google Chrome was a fast browser requiring less memory than its competitors. People saw them owning YouTube as a good thing. The most common form of toxicity towards new users in the Linux community was only providing lmgtfy links to them (I did get the occasional custom WinXP ISO torrent link too). Even their motto was don't be evil.
And then came the YouTube content ID system. And then they were reluctant to throw off the far-right from their platform for breaking their ToS during Gamergate. Then they dropped the motto. Then they put ads into the Google search results. Then they let the far-right control their platform before the 2024 elections. And also they're pushing AI hard.
Will Gabe Newell stick to his ideas, or get an anyeurism and join the Trump oligarchs?
It is fair to compare Google to Valve only in a category of "once been good". Other than that, 2 different companies with 2 different mottos.
How do you write all this and fail to mention that search doesn't even fucking work anymore?
I'm not arguing with you. But internet searching aDOEA NOT WORK ANYMROE.
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So, you are afraid to have an opinion in case future events make it invalid?
How do you support literally anything with this mindset?
Elon Musk might be haunted by the three spirits of not being racist this christmas and give away all his possessions. Nonetheless, I'm happy to call him wanker today, because it's an accurate representation of reality at present.
Thing is Valve is a private company with a flat structure and shared ownership that encourages moving between departments.
Basically, it's just a club of people doing whatever they want and they happen to all love videogames.
Love live Lord Gaben!
How does it taste? The cock of a Gabe?
Ok GabeN junior
Also, steam deck and steam machines aren't sold at a loss
The steam deck was sold at a loss
The steam machine doesn't have a price yet
Got a source for that? Best I can find are "implications", like Gaben saying the deck's pricing is "very aggresive" and that the parts used sum up to roughly 1k dollars
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I was not given a refund when MH World launched on PC in a broken, framelocked, constantly disconnecting state.
I tried and I was not granted one.
"gaymers"
intentional or not?
Intentional and gaymer
Encouraging customers to spend less money by having sales is certainly one interpretation
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