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What do you think of this prediction? (programming.dev)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (4 children)

This is silly. Valve is already a profit driven company. You don't see the walled garden? The DRM? Valve supports proton because it's in their monetary interest to do so.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

There's "profit-driven" and "seeking exclusively the profits of the next quarter". While capitalism has a lot of downsides in the long run, the vast majority of bullshit people get outraged about is due to publicly traded companies being organized in such a way that their CEOs and shareholders sacrifice all sustainability and instead try to loot your kitchen.

Whatever Steam policies you think are bullshit right now (and I can name a couple more, too), they're not too much in comparison to what they'd be under more typical management.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

How is it walled garden when you can add any non-steam game to your library?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

You're thinking in reverse. Walled gardens keep you in, not out. Without logging into your Steam account (pretending you don't have one), try to download a mod for a game you bought on GOG and see how it goes for you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I have seriously no idea, but can you take them out easily? If not, it's a walled garden.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Since it's not publicly owned it doesn't have to focus on quarterly profits.

If it gets sold to Microsoft they're probably going to start stripping it down to please investors and get rid banking on how most people will be too lazy to leave it. We've seen the same thing happen with reddit and twitter. I'm pretty sure enshittification is inevitable.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago

Capitalism bad. Support Epic Games instead. /s