Gabe Newell Blue Screen (Microsoft Trash Talk)
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  • RQG@lemmy.world
    2319·
    2 years ago

    Valve good.

    But valve company. Company bad.

    But valve company do good thing.

    But selfish reason.

    But good outcome.

    But what if no GabeN.

    We pray.

    • toastal@lemmy.ml
      411·
      2 years ago

      If they ever went public & were legally bound to make profit for shareholders, there would be no good feelings anymore.

      • RQG@lemmy.world
        12·
        2 years ago

        Going public is usually bad for product quality and consumer oriented business models.

        • Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml
          23·
          2 years ago

          Private companies aren’t bound to make profit. I purposefully tanked my companies profit to literally 0 during the pandemic so I could keep my employee on at full wage while only open half time. A private company can make profit for shareholders, but it doesn’t have to. It can do whatever the shareholders want it to do, within the boundaries of the law.

    • TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz
      1·
      2 years ago

      Valve is motivated by money. But their strategy is to make excellent products, that put the customers first. A rare sight these days.

    • soloner@lemmy.world
      1413·
      2 years ago

      Hahaha thanks for this. I really find it fascinating how bad CEOs make lemmy think all companies are bad. It makes no sense.

      Blame the system maybe, I get that. But good grief we are all trying to make a living. The only way to do it is to do business. Like any system, it will be exploited, but I’m not gonna shit on private companies especially who clearly have a vision and don’t need investor snobs to drive them to commit evil.

      • RQG@lemmy.world
        15·
        2 years ago

        I meant it the other way around. No matter how benevolent a dictatorship is, eventually the dictator will change and you better hope there will be another benevolent one.

        I personally don’t think the problem is doing business. I think the problem is businesses not being democratic.

      • Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        13·
        2 years ago

        Thats funny because shareholders are deeply involved in Valve, and those shareholders frequently decide which products get investment and which don’t.

        • psivchaz@reddthat.com
          5·
          2 years ago

          Which stockholders? Valve does have some, but it doesn’t appear that they are published and are probably mostly employees since it’s not publicly traded. Maybe you’re saying that like game publisher stockholders from EA and such are involved in decision making at Valve? That seems plausible but it doesn’t seem like they’d have a ton of power over operations, more just some negotiating power.

      • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.eeEnglish
        59·
        2 years ago

        It’s not their own opinion, they’re just repeating what they learned online. There’s multiple valve devs being “exploited” for $250k a year, it’s really tragic. They even exploit their worker by having college classes on the top of their building for their employees.

    • rwhitisissle@lemmy.ml
      314·
      2 years ago

      Valve gud. EA bad. Why Valve gud? Because me am told Valve gud. Why EA bad? Because me an told EA bad. Fact that each is purely motivated by profit and that my sentiment is almost entirely a byproduct of effective Valve PR coupled with it being the defacto gaming marketplace for 20 years and that the only value I have to it is as a data point in a spreadsheet is lost on me.

      • demonsword@lemmy.world
        61·
        2 years ago

        “Please pay this monthly access fee to maintain access to your account.”

        that’s the day you download all your game catalog to disk and cancel your account, of course

        • iso@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          11·
          2 years ago

          Or hope that GoG finally created their Linux client, although it has only be requested by a quiet minority of literally every single suggestion on their community wishlist.

          For the love of the gods CDPR, please, finally realize that Linux users are you main customer base.

  • EccTM@lemmy.mlEnglish
    39·
    2 years ago

    The “bluescreen” was actually a bunch of hints at Portal 2’s announcement at E3 later that year IIRC, but whatever.

    • Logster998@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 years ago

      They could have talked about windows 8’s closed ecosystem and UWPs, but I guess this is easier to point the finger at.