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The new owner of GOG discusses taking on Steam, the devil of DRM, and following in Nightdive's footsteps (www.gamesindustry.biz)

submitted 10 months ago by misk@piefed.social to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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[–] doublah@sopuli.xyz 6 points 10 months ago (3 children)

What profit? I can guarantee that Valve has spent far more in hiring hundreds of highly skilled full time contractors for 5+ years than they've made from the 3% of Steam's users on Linux.

Obviously it's a long term strategy for them to eventually make money but we've only gained from their investment.

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[–] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

More likely it's a long term strategy not to lose money when Microsoft locks Windows ecosystem to their own store(they tried).

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[–] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

Not OP, but Steam Deck.

I'm a big fan of Steam. They help me keep on Linux, but let's not pretend there isn't a profit motive. Gabe gets yachts, we get Linux Gaming. Win win right now.

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[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works -2 points 10 months ago

Lol, sure they hire "hundreds of contractor" and, obviously, they do it because they like Linux. This as nothing to do with selling steam decks and the upcoming box.

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