• @[email protected]
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    1322 days ago

    Gaben said it best when he said “piracy is a service issue, not a price issue.” There is no other company that even comes close to matching Steam’s services, both to consumers and developers. The industry could become a different place when he dies. I don’t see any other CEO continuing to spend money to innovate and expand services rather than offer less and charge more to extract record profits.

    • @[email protected]
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      81 day ago

      I mean this is obvious af

      When Netflix had 90% of the shows that you wanted to watch and they weren’t annoying little fucks with account sharing and geo location, everyone was happy to support them

      But once paying users feel like they are being taken advantage of, instead of catered to, they leave.

      There’s so many cases where pirating is not only cheaper (duh) it’s actually a better product/experience. And when you charge to provide a worse product/experience than what people can get for free, then you can’t be surprised at the outcome

    • Dae
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      542 days ago

      This is absolutely mad cope, but I want to believe that, as forward thinking as Gabe is, he either will find a worthy successor, or already has one lined up to ensure the company isn’t saced for all it’s worth when he’s gone.

      • @[email protected]
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        41 day ago

        There’s no reason he couldn’t have it go co-op. But what could happen vs what will, we just won’t know.

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      192 days ago

      Developers really trying to kill that by having buggy /launchers that run off steam launcher on top

    • Quazatron
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      212 days ago

      I feel the same, I know that things will likely go downhill if he goes. That’s why I also buy GoG games, I want to be able to download them if things go sour with Steam.

        • Björn Tantau
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          101 day ago

          CDPR came to the rescue even outside of GOG. My son bought Cyberpunk 2077 the other day on Steam and luckily for me it comes without DRM so I can even play it while he is playing.