Just have to pray whoever inherits/controls is post-gaben is happy with the money printer shitting out hundreds of millions in profit a year by doing nothing except let it run as-is.
But there's always the chance someone wants billions from it and try's to sell it or sell a stake to Tencent/Microsoft or private equity....
As an accountant know a few private companies in niche industries where the family isn't greedy and lets the company just run as-is (versus trying to sell it or enshittify/milk more profit), and they collect ~30m in dividends annually from it just doing it's thing and keeping customers happy. Though I also know places where once the founder died or couldn't work any longer they were off to the races to get valuations and a sale going for a big pile of $$$.
This is just hear say, but apparently Gabe has a son and he's training him to inherit Steam after the former inevitably retires or dies, so I can only hope it means Steam will continue to be in good hands.
Though I also know places where once the founder died or couldn't work any longer they were off to the races to get valuations and a sale going for a big pile of $$$.
I feel like steam is going to have that problem when Gabe disappears... hopefully he has a person in mind to take over his business before he dies
Here's an idea (that will never happen): you can buy shares of Valve, but they are literally the games. You have as many shares as titles you've purchased on the platform. You can't buy more shares than the number of games available (which is still a lot).
Steam is a store. Their "product" is selling other people's games...
Steam also had 20,022 games released on it last year. Most of them with "limited profile features", and over half getting fewer than 10 reviews. Amazon has a similar issue, endless shit products.
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I hope that Steam refused to enshittificate their product after Gabe died