turn it into a coop you say?

Owned by employees (continuously) vs shares given to current employees are two very different concepts.

But yeah, let us have some hope, otherwise it's GoG or the high seas.

I personally think he might go with a trust that way it will still stay in the family

Any source for his intentions?

Gabe's medical Half-Life (not the game) of his atoms decay slower than a normal human being.

I'm not saying they don't have problems, and you're right.

It's still the best we have, while GoG is awesomer, they don't have everything, plus there's also the massive work done for Proton that singlehandedly saved Linux gaming, that they could have made proprietary, especially for SteamDeck.

As a developer, they also do take a massive cut.

But I'd say that's minor compared to how it would look if it was owned by i.e Microsoft. And in how capitalism os turning out, it is a pretty rare sight.

I hope Gabe will at least last through the inevitable switch to cloud based gaming, that will probably start happening soon. I wonder what will they do.

I love GOG but I am concerned about their lack of transparency regarding AI slop.

True, and I use it whenever I can, but GoG is (as far as I know, maybe they contribute) not working on making sure games run on Linux (Proton), or increasing the Linux market share.

Someone: "I just had the worst day"

DdCno: "Oh, the Worst day? Did you get diagnosed with cancer? Did you get hit by a bus and suffer full body paralysis? Did you lose your home and entire family in a fire? I don't understand figures of speech!"

Honestly am not too worried about what you've mentioned.

Those things will upset my life so radically, that there's no point in worrying about that, plus I have a lot of first world privlidge buffer before it realistically affects my life. I'm not saying that it wouldn't suck, but I don't care. A lot of things will go to absolute life-changing shit for everyone around me if it also affects me.

Steam getting majorly enshitified will affect the major thing in my life, that I rely on to be able to handle the rest and retain at least some of my sanity, while changing nothing about the rest of my circumstances. It's something I interact with daily.

Yes, I am reasonable, this is the thing I worry about the most, but I do recognize that it's a privilige.

This is what is endemic in our current shareholder first sustem, it's not about profits, it's about leveraging the stock, products, customers, image and every other tool at their disposal to manage the value that the shareholders control so they can game the stock market as they see fit. Everything else is secondary.

Note the exception to the rule is Private equity looking for a place to unload debt and need a fall guy

That's a new one for me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareholder

Both public companies and private corporation have shareholders.

But only for companies participating in the equity ownership, right? I'm not fully versed with that, so need to ask here. I don't know how this works with Gabe and Valve. I think the important detail here is, that Valve is not publicly traded and can decide who buys shares from their company and could reject any money. I don't think this is possible with publicly traded companies, right?

They're basically the wet dream that conservatives are trying to sell you but that just fails 99.9% of the time due to greed.

I wonder what is the driving force for capitalism...

Is it the Singular pursiut of profit to enrich oneself?

Is there another wird for that?

Could that be the very motivation the system is build upon?

So the whole system doesnt Work how it is promoted, but is just a facade to keep the status quo and that means the rich stay rich and the poor stay barely not revolting.

So of course No Steam doesnt run under capitalism it crawls under capitalism. It works despite of capitalism.

The fall of Epic and Tim are really sad, but at the same time also extremely hilarious to watch. He is so pro AI and yet so completely incapable of using AI to do anything right...

You can't compare alternative stores like GOG and Epic directly to Steam though, because of all the additional stuff Steam offers that GOG, Epic, and all those other indie stores can't replicate.

That's also why I don't see those as competition to Steam, and more like enhancements. You can buy you DRM-free game on GOG and enjoy some of the benefits on Steam at the same time.

Thinking about it Epic might have the closest shot what with their whole Fortnite and UE stuff offering a lot of the backbone that Steam offers, but even they bungled it so hard they had to bribe devs for temporary exclusivity.

You might not use that many features, but you can't know what other users and developers might need. For some, the built in multiplayer and voice system might be a make or break feature, and for others it might be remote play together.
With how many users, developers, and features there are, it's not enough to start replicating a couple features and promising more later. When is the last time you bought into a promise and weren't disappointed? If you want to be serious competition, you better give it your all.