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• mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Because Epic does everything it can to be anti-competitive, because they don’t actually want to be competition they just want to be the monopoly.

  GOG doesn’t operate that way, they just try to compete by offering a good service,

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• Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It would be great if Steam had competition! They’re pretty good for what they are, but I’d rather not have to trust them to be so nice.

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  • mudstickmcgee@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    As long as gaben is in charge I think it’s in rrasonably safe hands, but the second he is out the enshittification will be Swift and complete.

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    • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I don’t know about that. The whole company is set up in a very unique way, such swift enshittification would probably cause a mutiny.

      How well the culture of just making good things is enshrined once Gaben is gone is a different question. I can easily see a slow dissolution of the company as the people who care and the people who can grab power fight.

      I also don’t know the internal details of the structure besides that it’s very flat and self-driven. Perhaps Gaben has an apprentice? I can’t imagine him being completely blind to his unique importance, surely they won’t just sell the company or hire a random CEO.

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    • Shard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I foresee the only chance steam has of not being immediately enshittified would be for it to be a 100% employee owned company and to stay the f away from ever being listed anywhere.

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• stardust@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  People don’t have to be forced to use GOG so there’s people that actually like them, and offering DRM free games with offline installers is pretty pro consumer.

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