Well, that's certainly an article title isn't it. But I mean it. Microsoft, don't you dare touch Valve. You're fat enough already and too big as it is.
  • ono@lemmy.caEnglish
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    10 months ago

    That leaked email conveniently assumes the owner of Valve would sell it. I can’t think of a reason for Gabe to do that.

    • gamer@lemm.eeEnglish
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      10 months ago

      This is the biggest problem with Valve at the moment. They’re awesome, but only because of the current leadership. Once these guys retire or die, it’s very likely Valve will enshittify like every other business.

      Valve needs to be hit by regulators at some point. They just have too much market power.

      • rambaroo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Valve is not awesome at all. Ffs, they didn’t become a monopoly by accident. People need to stop worshipping this company just because they started packaging wine with their app.

        This is the same company that literally started the trend of requiring storefronts and custom installers for their games with HL2… the exact same thing people whine about EA and Blizzard doing.

        PC gaming will become a total shit show if Valve dies and they’ll be fully responsible for it.

        • FreeLikeGNU@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          4 months ago

          just because they started packaging wine with their app

          Even if that’s all they did, that is more than anyone else is doing. What they really did was make nearly every game they sell easily playable without requiring you to use Windows. As byproduct, DXVK (part of Valve’s Proton) provides greater compatibility and performance for Windows users as well (Intel ARC driver and DX9 game support for example). They have salaried employees working exclusively on making this work and their development is open source for anyone to use modify and share. Epic or any other store front could freely take advantage of this work and benefit why don’t they do that instead of whining?

      • JokeDeity@lemm.eeEnglish
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        10 months ago

        I wish the decent guys who started companies would leave a directive for the company that must be followed to prevent it from becoming just another shitty piece of garbage like everything else these days has become thanks to the geniuses with business degrees running the world.

        • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
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          10 months ago

          But there’s no practical way you could hold the future owners of the business to that directive. If you own the business, you get to set the directives, including overwriting previous ones.

          The only way to enforce it is to maintain controlling interest in the business. Or, at least spread the interest among multiple parties so no one person can dictate it.