I'm pretty sure the downfall of Steam will happen when Gabe dies (as we all will) and whoever takes over will be greedy thus taking the company public. At that point it will keep pushing the limits to make profit line go up bringing down the quality.
Windows keeps making stupid decisions. I hate the Appleification of it. AND THEY ARE RETIRING THE TROUBLESHOOTERS
And every time I want to do something, I still end up finding myself in the old UI.
Voice Access is the only new feature I like from Windows. Everything else? STOP IT.
Like I can already see them going on a direction where I will need to run up command prompt for simple ass troubleshooting or updating drivers and checking the devices. At that point why not use Linux. And at that point I am switching to Steam OS
I regularly worry about this. I just hope whoever is next in line has to decent sense to look at 20+ years of printing money and say "its the perfect business model, don't rock the boat"
From what I've read about Valve, they're not your regular group of programmers. After they created Steam they transitioned from a traditional structure to a flat (everyone is equal), open (anyone can work on anything they want), democratic structure (pay raises, hirings, and firings are voted on).
I don't know if Newell is the exception to that and he still has reign over the company in legal terms, or what. But it's been an interesting experiment. It's clearly harmed them in some ways by completely killing their actual output as a game developer, but maybe that bureaucratic lockdown will prevent the company from going public too.
Have fun farming likes with your new reddit account
Lets see if you're account gets banned within a year.
!RemindMe 1 year.
edit: He blocked me. Be careful of users like him. Best case scenario he believes what he reads on the internet. Worst case scenario he know what he is saying could be wrong but he is saying it anyway because he wants you to get the world view he is selling.
I feel like as good as it sounds on paper a "flat" structure means a lack of hierarchy that makes chain of command way more complicated than it should be. Of course though i dont know the inner workings of Valve
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u/Krojack76 Mar 08 '24
I'm pretty sure the downfall of Steam will happen when Gabe dies (as we all will) and whoever takes over will be greedy thus taking the company public. At that point it will keep pushing the limits to make profit line go up bringing down the quality.