Steam is a last bastion of integrity. Given the present timeline, it will probably be bought out by EA.
Gabe has stated several times that as long as he is running things he will never go public and let it get ruined like that.
Once he’s gone though I suspect steam will sell for 18 quintillion dollars to Microsoft or something.
It’ll probably go to shit immediately afterwards.
Really hoping (He probably does) he has a succession plan in place to prevent that when he’s gone
I vaguely recall hearing that his son had no interest in running the company but that was also years ago. Hopefully whoever is set to take over when he goes shares his exact same views on keeping the company private.
Only time will tell.
He should give it to the employees collectively.
Ready player one.
It would be great but we all know that IRL it wouldn’t work and elon would just pay the best player to win it for him.
Isn’t that vaguely what the villain of ready player one does?
Yes but he doesn’t end up getting it in the movie. That’s the part where i don’t think it’s real.
And this is why we shouldn’t rely on steam to be the one and only saviour. GoG and pirating is needed so we can make sure we can enjoy our games in the future.
The problem with gog, is that it’s owned by CD project red…and they are publicly traded
Gog keeps hitting me with admin access requests when I’m not even doing anything on it. Repeatedly. Until I kill the task. Not a fan.
Because of the DRM free nature of GOG, you do not have to use their GOG Galaxy client.
You could use a different client (like Heroic) or you could just download the games straight from the GOG website.
Gonna get bought by Pepsi and you’ll need to drink the Mt dew verification can to launch it every time
I don’t think Gabe has any interest in that. He’s so filthy rich, at this point everything is just a hobby paid from change he found under a couch cushion.
Also: EA cannot afford Valve.
Can I key off of this Gen AI disclosure like a tag, and auto hide any games that mention it?
This sounds like something steam would be willing to do. I have no idea if it is, but adding this feature ALONE will ward off a good bit of it, I’d think.
I was kinda meh about CoD. I stopped after BO2, haven’t had any of them installed or played since it was dead. I didn’t mind its continued existence, but I wasn’t the target anymore.
But now I would guide a predator middle right on their headquarters and feel no guilt.
