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Dusk: Unpopular opinion: I'd rather pay Valve 30% and put up with their de facto monopoly than help Epic work towards their own (very obviously desired) monopoly (twitter.com)
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[-] frezik@midwest.social 38 points 10 months ago

GabeN is getting pretty old, and he can't keep doing this forever. It'll be interesting to see where the company goes after that.

By "interesting" I mean "expecting it to be handed over to salivating, greedy idiots who don't know what made it work before".

[-] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 26 points 10 months ago

The day Gabe dies and pathetic bastards with business degrees take over and ruin everything that's made Steam great for all these years, is the day I begin pirating everything.

[-] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Exactly. Steam is a load-bearing member. After seeing what happened to Twitter, Reddit, Unity, Wikia, etc. it's reasonable to think ahead. If Valve gets enshittified that's basically the end of PC gaming.

[-] FightMilk@discuss.online 2 points 10 months ago

Good luck, piracy ain’t what it used to be. Denuvo is getting strong af

[-] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

I don't even play games that have Denuvo. But I'm happy to see many of them remove it after a few years because they can't afford to keep paying for their game to literally be worse and several had been cracked (although it's my understanding that only one person was cracking those games).

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