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Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal
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Pain tolerance to prices? We're talking about the platform whose name is frequently coupled with the word "sale". Given the complete lack of ideas out of Epic in the year 2024, I don't have much confidence that they'd have risen to be a dominant market leader in the first place.
Stable, but not many titles. Mainstream titles were getting released because Valve was either greasing the wheels or because those partners thought Steam Machines were going to be a bigger deal. When they weren't a bigger deal, those mainstream titles dried up fast. The Witcher 3 and Street Fighter V both announced Linux ports and cancelled them when the writing was on the wall for Steam Machines. Both now work in Proton.
I was told, to my face, by a Valve employee between the launch of Steam Machines and the release of Proton, that a lot of engineers at Valve "are enamored with Linux" before he gave me a look indicating that he couldn't say more. But also, yes, the pursuit of making money leads to all sorts of wonderful new things, like simultaneously porting more than half of the history of PC gaming to a different operating system.
But if there aren't many games ported to ARM, and if the number of games running via Rosetta "fine" isn't high enough, then the number of customers you're benefiting by making a native ARM build of Steam is very low, and throwing more developers at the problem only makes that math worse. I think you should have a better Steam on Mac. I also know that Apple is actively hostile to gaming on Mac, so I get it if Valve isn't super interested.