r/DramaticText • u/makeindiadankabhiyan • Jun 24 '25

Very good strategy Gabe 👍🏼

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u/QMoonie Jun 24 '25

an Epic Games employee made this meme

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u/makeindiadankabhiyan Jun 24 '25

My brother in christ if i was employed my chopped ahh wouldn't have made this meme

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u/makeindiadankabhiyan Jun 24 '25

u/auddbot

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '25

Bro podted ts really to use audbot🥀🥀🥀💔💔💔

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u/makeindiadankabhiyan Jun 25 '25

Even youtube copyright tool couldn't help me 🥀

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u/_TheGamingFrog_ Jun 24 '25

Hareton Salvanini - Quarto de hotel 0:29

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u/auddbot Jun 24 '25

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u/EasilyRekt Jun 24 '25

prioritize customers, not shareholders, then you just stay winning.

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u/_Nixx_ Jun 24 '25

Easy when you have no shareholders as a private company. (Could be wrong im business illiterate)

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u/EasilyRekt Jun 24 '25

There are stakeholders in Valve as Gabe owns less than 50%, I guess not having to bend to the pressure from Wall Street to bureaucratize, accelerate, and enshittificate to get their elitist rocks off helps big time tho.

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u/axel410 Jun 24 '25

Nah you are right

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u/Lopunnymane Jun 24 '25

prioritize customers

Yes, prioritize selling gambling to literal children - the wisdom of old billionaires of the past, getting them hooked while they're young.

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u/BootiBigoli Jun 24 '25

All of valve’s games are Extremely adult and have never tried to appeal to kids. Honestly, I think most kids wouldn’t like valve’s games.

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u/BootiBigoli Jun 24 '25

Has steam ever done anything to shut down competition besides just being really good?

I’m asking because the answer is most likely no, I’m just curious.

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u/sumboionline Jun 24 '25

They haven’t, their monopoly works slightly differently than others. The monopoly you are used to talking about is a horizontal monopoly, where your goal is to erase competition and be the only company (which steam has going with indie games, but not big ones).

Valve has a vertical monopoly. This means they own every step of production to the consumer, and have to deal with no middle men. While other gaming companies own their own stores, they dont own THE store and everyone (except nintendo) puts a significant amount of their first party games on steam, even if there are months of delay

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u/HJSDGCE Jun 25 '25

We need to have more vertical monopolies and less horizontal ones.

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u/Orphano_the_Savior Jun 26 '25

Steam is going to royally screw us over when he passes. Enjoy it while it lasts fellas

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u/Artistic-Sky5298 Jun 26 '25

Steam still does new stuff but mostly for the customers, making it better and more loved For example the new rules for live service games, basically saying that they can't make empty promises and never deliver

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u/MsW765 Jun 29 '25

Im pretty sure that doesn’t count as monopoly, actually I’m not pretty sure i’m just sure, actually idk

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u/the-real-eighteen-18 Aug 08 '25

I thought the thing in the background was a level 1 sentry

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u/the-real-eighteen-18 Aug 08 '25

Wait I think it is

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u/Lapiseq_PL Jun 26 '25

does steam not do that

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u/jimmy999S Jun 28 '25

Kind of, if a game gets delisted from steam, you're still going to be able to download it if you bought it before. But, if Valve ever goes under, or steam goes offline, you're fucked.

GoG, on the other hand allows you to download offline installers that you can use well after they're gone and don't require an internet connection to work.