▲ 280 ▼ Valve "played capitalism so well they broke it" and now Steam can never be replaced, former Epic dev says: "I don't think this is fixable" (www.gamesradar.com) submitted 1 week ago by alessandro@lemmy.ca to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca 222 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] AutumnalAdjacent@piefed.social 17 points 1 week ago (4 children) Valve wins by doing absolutely nothing permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] anewfox@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 week ago (1 child) i mean. they did just release a fantastic controller and a damn fine new vr headset. they aren't doing nothing. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Aeder@lemmy.world 1 point 1 week ago And funded a massive amount of Linux and Linux software development. People who say Valve does nothing are either oversimplifying for a joke or, if serious, grossly ignorant about what Valve does. permalink fedilink source parent [–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago that's what gets me. they just provide a simple, relatively unchanging service, that mostly just works. I curse Microsoft daily for the shit I have to put up with just trying to do my job (it's actually crazy to me how much wasted labour there is because of dumb changes from Microsoft) because they are endlessly searching for even more profit. and they could just.. still be raking in cash if they just provided a service that worked. like Valve. but that's not enough permalink fedilink source parent [–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago Given the fact I used their OS all summer long as my sole business computer and then my sole gaming console tells me they are doing something. Something nobody else seemed to be interested in doing. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] anewfox@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 week ago (1 child) i mean. they did just release a fantastic controller and a damn fine new vr headset. they aren't doing nothing. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Aeder@lemmy.world 1 point 1 week ago And funded a massive amount of Linux and Linux software development. People who say Valve does nothing are either oversimplifying for a joke or, if serious, grossly ignorant about what Valve does. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Aeder@lemmy.world 1 point 1 week ago And funded a massive amount of Linux and Linux software development. People who say Valve does nothing are either oversimplifying for a joke or, if serious, grossly ignorant about what Valve does. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago that's what gets me. they just provide a simple, relatively unchanging service, that mostly just works. I curse Microsoft daily for the shit I have to put up with just trying to do my job (it's actually crazy to me how much wasted labour there is because of dumb changes from Microsoft) because they are endlessly searching for even more profit. and they could just.. still be raking in cash if they just provided a service that worked. like Valve. but that's not enough permalink fedilink source parent
[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago Given the fact I used their OS all summer long as my sole business computer and then my sole gaming console tells me they are doing something. Something nobody else seemed to be interested in doing. permalink fedilink source parent