Valve having such a stronghold on the market is both:
- amazing because of projects like this,
- frightening because we’re one Gabe brain damage away from having PC Gaming enshittified.
gabe³ half-life 3 confirmed
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ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 hours ago
I avoid buying from Steam and prefer GOG when I can because I don’t really want to have continued access to my games collection be dependent on Gabe eating his veggies, avoiding saturated fats and doing at least a 30m walk a day to keep the risk of a heart attack low and look both ways before he crosses a road so as not to be run over by a car.
In almost 4 decades as a gamer and a techie I’ve seen plenty of good companies turn into evil companies and start to leverage whatever dependencies customers had on them to pretty much blackmail them into paying more, sometimes after the founders died, others when the founders cashed out or just lost interest in managing the company’s direction and yet others because they were evil all along and just hid it whilst they built their customer base - enshittification isn’t ust a XXI century thing, what’s XXI century about it is that many companies nowadays already have it as part of their mid and long term strategy from the start.
Best avoid situations where you give power to some big company (for whom you as an individual customer are basically a nameless bacteria) over something you care about, unless you have no other choice, even if at the moment they’re basically a benevolent dictatorship.
Better safe than sorry.
kevin2107@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
They are not public so we are safe for now. When they go public they go shit mode
Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Sadly i guess it could happen to GOG too. I mean, anything you have already bought is safe but someone could step in and change the business model and end such a great thing.
CatsPajamas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
Valve is set up as a horizontal organization. I expect that to continue after Gaben’s death. He doesn’t really do much at valve these days anyway.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
Yeah, well, somebody is going to inherit his share of ownership, and even if he goes out of his way and sets up a Foundation for the purpose of preserving the founder’s vision that will inherit his share, such Foundations tend to over time end up subverted and doing the very opposite of what the founder would’ve wanted.
Best avoid situations were your shit is hostage to the whims of a big company for whom you as and individual consumer are irrelevant.
snooggums@piefed.world 1 day ago
GabeCube
DrDystopia@lemy.lol 1 day ago
sorry by dose is stuffed.
xavier666@lemmy.umucat.day 19 hours ago
GabeCube™, GabeGoggles™ and the GabeController™. Maybe we’ll get a GabeBoy™ next
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Maybe we’ll get a GabeBoy™ next
steam deck
tino@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Rooster326@programming.dev 1 hour ago
How did you like that case?
I almost went with that before getting the M1 Case back when it was just a forum post order.
OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 1 day ago
NotSteve_@piefed.ca 1 day ago
Off topic but the NeXT logo is my favourite logo of all time. If I get a GabeCube I’m 100% putting a NeXT sticker on the front
GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 1 day ago
I’d call it the PlayBox.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Can someone tell me how do I recreate the guitar tone from Hazardous Environments (the Valve theme)? I want to do a funny thing!
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
single coils, reverb
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Half Life^3^ confirmed!
Treczoks@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Somehow I get NeXT vibes…
BroBot9000@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Might as well call it the billionaire cube
TachyonTele@piefed.social 1 day ago
Hoho! It’s because he made money hahaha!
GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Noooo!!!
It is ok for Gabe to be billionaire and profit off predatory gambling practices on children and micro transactions and selling broken games and selling unfinished games and repeatedly trying to monopolise the pc hardware industry and being anti consumer and taking 30% of all game sales
Because he monopolised the PC marketplace so I no longer have to leave the house to buy anime porn games.
SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml 20 hours ago
he didnt monopolise anything. the consumers did. valve does not enforce a monopoly, its just the competition shoots themselves in the foot all the time
also for the 30% you get a hell of a lot of service as a dev, including but not limited: the biggest storefront in PC gaming servers provided by valve managing of transactions free advertising on mentioned storefront. and thats just a tiny part od what you get.
and he aint trying to monopolise harware, nothing is preventing you from installing Windows on your steam devices, nor are you limited in peripheral harware choice (like controllers)
valve aint forcing you to do shit, therefore they aint monopolising anything. the competition just kills itself by providing horrendous service
vapeloki@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Yes Steam is a defacto monopoly. But not through the actions of Valve but through the actions of it competitors.
Valve does not behave like a monopoly, and it takes its money to improve gaming for all.
I would get it if someone here would be really simping for Gabe. But may I remind you all, this is a shitposting community and this is a meme.
If not for Valve and their openness towards Linux, Microsoft would long have followed Apple and made a walled garden out of Windows.
If you want to make sure that gaming is not getting a walled of eco system be Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft, that you need Valve.
Just look at that release: NO AI bullshit, no walled garden, no vendor locking. No locked bootloader’s, repairability and consumer rights are in the focus.
If course you can point out that this is a profit oriented company and everything they do, they do to make money. And I would not argue with that.
But this? What is this? Why?
BilSabab@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
It’s not ok but that where we at.
msage@programming.dev 21 hours ago
They are all billionaires.
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 1 day ago
I mean you could do that with most all electronics
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Says the guy writing on a billionaire phone.
NotSteve_@piefed.ca 1 day ago
BroBot9000@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Just received my Fairphone LOL
Cope harder and simp your fave billionaire as much as you want
BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
Indeed.
*Sent from my billionaire rectangle
BilSabab@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
this motherfucker looks beautiful
Donjuanme@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Add another year.
Professorozone@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Can anyone tell me why anyone would want to buy a Steam Machine? Serious question.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
It may not he for you, but there’s a huge potential audience. Somebody who is used to the console experience and wants that simplicity for playing on the couch, but wants access to PC gaming platforms like Steam.
I like tinkering with my PC, but a lot of people don’t. They like consoles because they can pick up the controller, push a button, and it powers on and works, and they never have to worry if a game will run. If it’s released on the console, it should work.
Yeah, there’s 1001 ways to get a PC running on the TV, but none of them are as dumb-simple as turning on an Xbox. This device solves that issue.