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[–] Piatro@programming.dev 21 points 9 months ago (6 children)

What business purpose does it serve to continually improve their product? Hmm. Gee. Hmmmmmmm. Geeeeeeeeee. I'm stumped.

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[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

you can hear them sneering: how dare valve continue to refuse enshittifcation?

how fucking dare they?

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[–] Piatro@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Genuinely worried about that when Gabe passes the torch. I'm glad most of their Linux work is going back to the commons and to open source tools so even if they do become shit we'll still have decent compatibility.

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[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I have to trust that he's planned for the future, as it's a private corp and opaque.

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[–] Hazematman@lemmy.ca 1 point 9 months ago

Gabe has been public about supporting Linux as a gaming platform but I'm not really sure how much he is involved in on the day to day. If you follow what they're doing Pierre-Loup (PL) seems to be driving most of their Linux work.

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[–] doublah@sopuli.xyz 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

Is this improving their product? These changes benefit users on non-Valve hardware playing any game on Linux (including non-Steam games). Like I'm glad Valve is funding talented free software developers to work on whatever they want but the benefit for Valve is very indirect.

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[–] Piatro@programming.dev 4 points 9 months ago

Yes it's indirect, but remember that Microsoft is one of their biggest competitors. This isn't about seeing absolute profit from every change, it's about improving linux as a platform to make it more viable for consumers, which will make it more viable for developers, which pushes more people to Steam and SteamOS as their first Linux distro and first destination for games. By making the platform perform extremely well on older/cheaper hardware they also create a market for other businesses to create hardware (Legion Go for example) which will increase the PC market and increase the number of people using steam since it's the defacto monopoly. Yes, they won't necessarily get every penny from every sale of hardware or even games since other game stores exist, but they will get a huge percentage from the majority of people in the PC market.