All IP he owns. All IP that people have been literally begging for for over a decade. Would allow him to print money and would give fans what they have been asking for for as long as the last release. Yet there are numerous interviews from people who hinted that the only reason HL3 wasn’t made was specifically because Gabe flexed his authority to shoot it down.
But what has he done instead? Turned Steam into a service model instead. Why make a game when you could sell a skin for a knife and make tons of money? Why curate your Steam store when you can allow utter garbage into it that just effectively steals people’s money? Why maintain one product (SteamOS, SteamController, Big Picture mode) when you can just release it and move onto then next while leaving no one behind to properly deal with that product? Why have a sensible customer service when you can blame customers themselves and offer no refunds, you know, despite the fact the refund wouldn’t be necessary if you curated your store? Why do anything people are asking for when you can nickle and dime them with dumb shit like trading cards?
Gabe is just as bad as every other CEO. Arguably he’s worse. Every other CEO is known for being trash. Gabe has built up an “Elon Musk”-type cult of personality around him so they’ll defend him to the death when he has done nothing other than repeatedly fail for over a decade.
Why curate your Steam store when you can allow utter garbage into it that just effectively steals people’s money?
What’s the solution here?
They used to curate everything heavily, but new studios and indies had a tough time getting their games reviewed and added. So they implemented Greenlight, their user-curation platform so users could tell them what they wanted to see. It just became a huge popularity contest, and getting your game on Steam became about how much marketing you could afford to buy. Now, they let anyone with $100 in, and it’s very easy for an indie studio to get their game on Steam, but it’s also easy for all of the garbage to get onto Steam.
What solution would you propose, that both lets legitimate indie studios get their games on Steam, especially studios producing games in less popular / niche genres, and also edges out the objective garbage, while not incurring huge costs on developers or using a bunch of Valve employee time to personally curate every submission?
Edit: For that matter…
Why have a sensible customer service when you can blame customers themselves and offer no refunds, you know, despite the fact the refund wouldn’t be necessary if you curated your store?
Steam’s refund system is one of the most generous, if not the most generous, in the industry. What are your complaints with it? I’m legitimately curious.
Why do anything people are asking for when you can nickle and dime them with dumb shit like trading cards?
I’m not going to defend trading cards, because they’re stupid as hell, but how many have you ever been forced to buy?
Gabe is just as bad as every other CEO. Arguably he’s worse.
You know what Valve hasn’t done? Gone public. It would make them - and Gabe personally - an incredible amount of short-term money, but they haven’t done it, and thank fuck for that, because it’d be the beginning of the end of the PC gaming industry as we know it.
Plus, in the age of fighting for the right to repair our devices, the Steam Deck is a breath of fresh air. They could have locked it down with a proprietary OS like the Switch and pretty much every other console, but didn’t.
Please point out the section of my comment where I specifically said that he was immoral or evil for not making video games.
I will wait.
More over, I listed a number of things there that weren’t “choosing not to make games” so if you could actually respond to my points instead of weakly attempting to oversimplify everything I said to try and get a single ‘GOTCHA’ comment
that would be great.
Half life 3.
Team fortress 3.
Portal 3.
Left 4 Dead 3.
All IP he owns. All IP that people have been literally begging for for over a decade. Would allow him to print money and would give fans what they have been asking for for as long as the last release. Yet there are numerous interviews from people who hinted that the only reason HL3 wasn’t made was specifically because Gabe flexed his authority to shoot it down.
But what has he done instead? Turned Steam into a service model instead. Why make a game when you could sell a skin for a knife and make tons of money? Why curate your Steam store when you can allow utter garbage into it that just effectively steals people’s money? Why maintain one product (SteamOS, SteamController, Big Picture mode) when you can just release it and move onto then next while leaving no one behind to properly deal with that product? Why have a sensible customer service when you can blame customers themselves and offer no refunds, you know, despite the fact the refund wouldn’t be necessary if you curated your store? Why do anything people are asking for when you can nickle and dime them with dumb shit like trading cards?
Gabe is just as bad as every other CEO. Arguably he’s worse. Every other CEO is known for being trash. Gabe has built up an “Elon Musk”-type cult of personality around him so they’ll defend him to the death when he has done nothing other than repeatedly fail for over a decade.
What’s the solution here?
They used to curate everything heavily, but new studios and indies had a tough time getting their games reviewed and added. So they implemented Greenlight, their user-curation platform so users could tell them what they wanted to see. It just became a huge popularity contest, and getting your game on Steam became about how much marketing you could afford to buy. Now, they let anyone with $100 in, and it’s very easy for an indie studio to get their game on Steam, but it’s also easy for all of the garbage to get onto Steam.
What solution would you propose, that both lets legitimate indie studios get their games on Steam, especially studios producing games in less popular / niche genres, and also edges out the objective garbage, while not incurring huge costs on developers or using a bunch of Valve employee time to personally curate every submission?
Edit: For that matter…
Steam’s refund system is one of the most generous, if not the most generous, in the industry. What are your complaints with it? I’m legitimately curious.
I’m not going to defend trading cards, because they’re stupid as hell, but how many have you ever been forced to buy?
You know what Valve hasn’t done? Gone public. It would make them - and Gabe personally - an incredible amount of short-term money, but they haven’t done it, and thank fuck for that, because it’d be the beginning of the end of the PC gaming industry as we know it.
Plus, in the age of fighting for the right to repair our devices, the Steam Deck is a breath of fresh air. They could have locked it down with a proprietary OS like the Switch and pretty much every other console, but didn’t.
Choosing not to make some video games is not immoral or evil.
Please point out the section of my comment where I specifically said that he was immoral or evil for not making video games.
I will wait.
More over, I listed a number of things there that weren’t “choosing not to make games” so if you could actually respond to my points instead of weakly attempting to oversimplify everything I said to try and get a single ‘GOTCHA’ comment that would be great.
So then what in your comment about Gabe do you consider an example of him being immortal or evil?
Or are you just blind to the behavior of other CEOs?