Feels like the Steam Deck gave them a boost in, I don’t know if it’s morale, creativity or something but it’s there. Amazing little machine, I love it. And to see Steam’s UI finally getting some much needed love and tweaks is fantastic.
MacOS getting a “no longer feels awful to use” update? Hell yeah. Even if I don’t play on it, I like to have the client.
Notes especially looks to be a fantastic features. It’s a simple thing and I could take notes anywhere. But having them in-game is another thing.
As always, Steam continues to be the best gaming platform ever. While others are just like: “Fuck you, this is where you must buy our games now”, Steam provides valuable features that would make you want to buy it here over another place. Sure, I love the DRM-free nature of GOG but the work Valve keeps on putting in stuff like Proton and Linux makes me stick with them in the end.
I honestly love Steam. They did some mistakes in the past, sure, but they keep doing amazing stuff. They stand out in this industry of ridiculous greed and they’ve earned my trust, which is quite hard these days. And while I am always cautious, I think they’ll keep it until the day Valve does a 180 and announce: “We’re going public” and it’ll be all downhill from there, as it always happen when great companies who make amazing products goes public.
I dread this moment but hopefully, it’ll never happen. They’re already swimming in money, so… Can’t see why they’d do this. But still. I keep it in the back of my mind.
I worry that when Gabe Newell eventually retires or dies that some MBA shitheads will take over Steam and then it’ll decline like so many other things lately :(
Same tbh, I don’t want to see it but I think it’s a hard pill to swallow that eventually it’s gonna go down the same route other massive companies have. It is amazing it held up so well this far, probably thanks to Gaben himself.
My biggest fear is steam workshop tbh. So many games depend on it that it’s become synonymous with modding for many users, which hurts games not on steam or mods not on the workshop. I know I’m preaching to the choir here but such massive centralization and monopolization can’t be good. Especially since the steam workshop isn’t even that good - it lacks many features that other mod portals or managers have, like version control, preset switching, virtual installs, or even something as simple as mass subscribe/unsubscribe or a sortable list.
I don’t think we have anything to worry about with Steam. It’s privately held, so they aren’t bound by investors or shareholders squeezing them to wring out infinite growth and ROI every quarter
Gabe passing away doesn’t inherently mean anything. Gabe is very smart and I’m sure he’s picked his “heir” to the Valve/Steam business very very carefully. He’s had a wonderful vision of PC Gaming for the last few decades and I doubt he’d pick some bean counter just looking to wring wallets in the way every other company does.
Feels like the Steam Deck gave them a boost in, I don’t know if it’s morale, creativity or something but it’s there. Amazing little machine, I love it. And to see Steam’s UI finally getting some much needed love and tweaks is fantastic.
MacOS getting a “no longer feels awful to use” update? Hell yeah. Even if I don’t play on it, I like to have the client.
Notes especially looks to be a fantastic features. It’s a simple thing and I could take notes anywhere. But having them in-game is another thing.
As always, Steam continues to be the best gaming platform ever. While others are just like: “Fuck you, this is where you must buy our games now”, Steam provides valuable features that would make you want to buy it here over another place. Sure, I love the DRM-free nature of GOG but the work Valve keeps on putting in stuff like Proton and Linux makes me stick with them in the end.
I honestly love Steam. They did some mistakes in the past, sure, but they keep doing amazing stuff. They stand out in this industry of ridiculous greed and they’ve earned my trust, which is quite hard these days. And while I am always cautious, I think they’ll keep it until the day Valve does a 180 and announce: “We’re going public” and it’ll be all downhill from there, as it always happen when great companies who make amazing products goes public.
I dread this moment but hopefully, it’ll never happen. They’re already swimming in money, so… Can’t see why they’d do this. But still. I keep it in the back of my mind.
I’m soo excited for Counter Strike 2. Glad they’re going full steam ahead with it after their vacation.
I worry that when Gabe Newell eventually retires or dies that some MBA shitheads will take over Steam and then it’ll decline like so many other things lately :(
I am prepared to pirate every single game I bought on that platform if that comes to happen =/
Same tbh, I don’t want to see it but I think it’s a hard pill to swallow that eventually it’s gonna go down the same route other massive companies have. It is amazing it held up so well this far, probably thanks to Gaben himself.
My biggest fear is steam workshop tbh. So many games depend on it that it’s become synonymous with modding for many users, which hurts games not on steam or mods not on the workshop. I know I’m preaching to the choir here but such massive centralization and monopolization can’t be good. Especially since the steam workshop isn’t even that good - it lacks many features that other mod portals or managers have, like version control, preset switching, virtual installs, or even something as simple as mass subscribe/unsubscribe or a sortable list.
I don’t think we have anything to worry about with Steam. It’s privately held, so they aren’t bound by investors or shareholders squeezing them to wring out infinite growth and ROI every quarter
The bus factor of that is 1 though. If Gabe Newell gets hit by a bus all bets are off.
Gabe passing away doesn’t inherently mean anything. Gabe is very smart and I’m sure he’s picked his “heir” to the Valve/Steam business very very carefully. He’s had a wonderful vision of PC Gaming for the last few decades and I doubt he’d pick some bean counter just looking to wring wallets in the way every other company does.