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Steam made an estimated $1.7 billion in September, an all-time new record
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Long term that's possibly wise. Track record being what it is I think steam is broadly ok, but definitely less safe than something you can download and keep forever.
I think as long as Gabe runs the show, it will be fine, but you know that there are venture capitalists and mega-corps all ready to maximize stakeholder value.
At least with GoG, you can at least download your installers if it ever begins the enshittification slide. Steam will take everything with it should it start down that path.
The question is whether or not whoever or whatever Gabe puts into his place when he steps down will act like him.
I see it as a serious likelihood he'll proof the company against venture capital and going public
Gabe is only one step below a venture capitalist on the scale of evil. He only invested in Linux as a hedge against the windows store, and steam only has "good customer service" because they were legally forced to offer refunds.
Gabe intentionally destroyed physical games on PC almost two decades ago. Now you have no guarantee of keeping your library and there's no used PC game market anymore, which raises prices for all of us. Go look at used console games, they're always cheaper than PC ports even when the ports are on sale.
Gabe made gaming worse, not better. People moan about not owning things anymore yet praise this billionaire fuck who literally pioneered that concept. His actual good contributions to gaming were HL1 and HL2 but in the end he only ever cared about making money.