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Ubisoft Returning to Day 1 Steam Releases Starting With Assassin's Creed Shadows
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Steam is the best game management software that happens to be funded by the game store ...
They do earn their keep tho JFC but centralizing like that will be down fall of it once Gabe dies or sells.
Start hedging
Steam is in a rightly deserved position of good reputation.
I am amazed that they have not entered the "squeeze every dollar out of the good reputation and brand we built" phase that so many companies have gone through in the past decade. I hope Newell can keep it this way for a long time.
They aren't beholden to Wall Street thus don't have the artificial Sharks Keep Moving mentality that is the animating force to most enshittification spirals.
It's this neat trick called "being privately owned"
Of course, that's not always the case (See: Elon Musk), but it is a lot of the time. (Valve, Arizona Ice Tea, and LEGO(to some extent))
But seriously tho, unless Gabe has a succession plan in place, im afraid Valve is done for once he's gone.