If Steam or Valve ever goes public and IPOs, I’m gonna fucking kill myself.
They seem to be the only ones who aren’t like going through an enshitification cycle right now.
It all comes down to who succeedes Gabe after his stepping down.
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Safest option would be to turn Valve into a foundation, similar to Zeiss: The company owns itself thus can’t be bought out, statutory stipulations go along the lines of “Make sure we don’t go bankrupt, do great optics, funnel some money to the University of Jena as well as less well off workers in the city”. No grand charitable aspirations besides being a good citizen as per 1846 bourgeois values (though that’d be Gabe’s choice), otherwise just continue as they’ve been doing. Make sure all stakeholders (incl. gamers, or at least Valve customers) have standing to enforce those statutes.
That would be nice. Just keep in mind that they already have an arbitration clause, so that seems to piss on (but not all over and certainly not shit on) gamers who have standing to enforce those values.
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Initial public offering. i.e. trading stocks in public
Initial public offering
Good guy steam
This world really does not deserve Valve
And this boys is why we choose to give money to valve, and as a bonus steam sales are amazing. Valve really knows how to keep a steady income of profit and just dont fck with what works
Valve knows when they have it good and not be greedy. They are essentially a monopoly but choose not to abuse it.
It needs warnings for of a game requires you to be connected to the internet to play, and if the developer has ever deactivated usage rights to their games.
Technically you have those on the Steam Deck rating
This is the kind of thing that makes poeple love valve
Good guy steam. Their family sharing beta is currently a game changer for people like me whose friends have diverse gaming interests and thus, we can try out each other’s games without the need to buy them.
How do you get isthereanydeal inside steam?
I believe it’s the decky plugin for SteamOS
https://github.com/SteamDeckHomebrew/decky-plugin-database/pull/605
I might be wrong, hut this is at least a way to do it.
Sick thanks
Has the Steam Family update launched yet? The one that lifted the limitation on playing different games from the same account at the same time. I feel like last I saw it was in beta.
Was also wondering if anyone has a good sense on how they’re policing Family Libraries. Does it work to share with close friends or am I going to want to be sure I’m sharing only with household members?
You can opt into the Family Sharing beta and get the features. You can only join one family per year so choose wisely as they say.
Okay good to know. I’ll be using it to try to entice a few friends at least half way away from their Playstations to Steam Decks.
I’m in the beta with my wife and cousin. It works great so far. I was able to try out dragons dogma 2 from the cousins account, remember why I hated dd1, and promptly un-installed it.
Ha I actually thought I liked DD1 after I played it for about 45 minutes. But that was years ago and I haven’t touched it again soo
The one that lifted the limitation on playing different games from the same account at the same time.
That should never have been a limitation in the first place. If I have two games installed outside of Steam there’s nothing stopping me from playing both at the same time, so WTF does Valve think ever justified it?
Agreed it was a chincy restriction. I’m glad they’re righting that with the new Family Sharing.
something tell me the publishers are not gonna be happy about this and will try to sabotage it.
They cant do shit. What are they going to do? Stop releasing on the biggest platform?
I appreciate this, and now I’m just waiting for it to show me family library games when browsing the store. I have games on my wishlist that another family member owns. A flag that says “family library” would be appreciated - similar to “in library” and “on wishlist.”
- I don’t see it when I browse the store on my steam deck or the mobile app. Unsure if it would show this to me on the desktop app.
Real nice.
