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Epic fails to compete with Steam because “EGS is a shop, Steam is a community”, says Witchfire lead, as Epic has “nothing to do but to buy” (frvr.com)
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[–] halfsalesman@piefed.social 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Not out of the goodness of their heart but to drive sales and foster a customer base willing to return.

I think this is partially true, but also I legit think Gabe Newell is ideologically a market anarchist that legitimately loves video games as a medium. He probably could have (more safely) made even more money doing something else considering his early Microsoft connections and ability but he didn't.

Unfortunately as a result, the moment hes dead Valve might be in trouble long term. Depends on who takes over afterward and how they want to direct Valve. Pierre-Loup Griffais or Lawrence Yang seem possible given how successful Steam Deck has been. Its hard to get a read on them. They seem smart and well meaning though.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Based on what I've heard of the internal structure of Valve, there's a good chance he's helped foster enough an environment of "doing what you love" that it'd survive him retiring/dying. Maybe not forever, but at least for a long while after he's gone.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 weeks ago

And hopefully by that time they've built up the open source community enough that even if Valve turned bad they wouldn't be able to do much damage