The decline of the Steam games platform is inevitable, and there are already warning signs.

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    2 days ago

    Another day another corporate hit piece to take down valve. They aren’t going anywhere. They’re a private company with no plans on going public ever. From what I hear, the company leadership will transfer to the lead engineer who shares the same visions as Gabe. Why would you want a personal money printer in your pocket to go public and then just get absolutely raped by some investor pieces of sshit when you have one of the highest profit to employee ratios in the entire industry. It makes absolutely no sense to strangle this Golden goose even for the greediest of people.

    I swear to God the news is just fucking awful these days just paid hit pieces to spread whatever view some rich guy wants. This is all because valve won’t bend the knee and is disrupting industries and poising to dethrone Microsoft right now in the OS space and they’ve also branched into hardware. Other companies are threatened by them.

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    What signs ? It doesn’t say in the article. It reads more like a butthurt apple user rant.

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    “Steam is a lot better now than it was in 2004, and issues with internet connectivity and always-on digital rights management (DRM) have mostly faded away as global internet infrastructure improve.”

    Uhm, unless Im misunderstanding this article from a year ago: Denuvo is alive and well, buddy.

    And yes I too have a Mac, and mainly just stream to it because the hardware can’t cope, but there’s no way in hell I will drop the kind of money to Apple to even get close to my mid tier rig to play on it locally.