• Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.cc
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    1 year ago

    Issue isn’t now but the future. Gabe is content on what he and the company earned, he didn’t feel the need to stuck an ever-growing tumor into his company. The story will be different when he’s no longer the head of the company, unless Gabe made an unbreakable rule for the company to never go public, the chance of some next-in-line getting greedy on setting themselves and their next few descendant for life is pretty high.

    • Sparking@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      But you can say that about anything. No one can predict the future.

      Hopefully, if GabeN leaves, the next manager will be smart and manage steam well. Or they will be not smart and make bad decisions.

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          1 year ago

          I think it is very unlikely. But you are going “what about in the future?” Well, I still think it is unlikely. And then you can go “What about after that?” Well okay, I still think it is unlikely, even then. “How about after that though?”

          Damn, okay, they are going to go public, all their developers will go on strike, make everyone buy all their steam library all over again and start selling GLaDOS NFTs. Is that what you want to hear? It’s just a very funny comment. Yes, I don’t think they will ever go public, till the end of time. The world will be a burnt out husk before Valve goes public.

    • barsoap@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      unless Gabe made an unbreakable rule for the company to never go public

      Not exactly unprecedented, see e.g. Bosch, Zeiss, or, staying in the US, Mozilla.