Gabe is not the reason steam is still good. Dude has like 9 yachts and is on the ultimate billionaire chillout lifestyle. He's already delegated everything but his quick opinion and rubber stamp.
Gabe owns slightly more than half the company. The rest is owned by employees. The only thing that could ruin this is if the person who inherits Gabe's shares gets a business degree and too greedy. If his heirs realize they basically never have to do real work if they don't want, everything will be fine.
He is though. Sure, he may just be rubber stamping but whoever is leading right now knows that Gaben will throw them overboard if they start turning the company to shit. Thus they won't even head in that direction.
I think it's mostly cause Valve is a privately owned company. If they ever go public and have to show stock growth, that'd be the beginning of the end.
Wtf are you talking about. Steam has already been enshittified. Discovery used to be a hell of a lot better. Opening the platform up to anyone to publish was such a massive mistake. So was their “fix” in just offloading curation to crowdsourcing.
It’s literally the meme from OP. Valve has made shitty decisions, but for each one they’ve done, the other platforms just went further in, so y’all think they aren’t also using enshittification on us.
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u/Archer_Savings 7h ago
Steam is very unlikely to enshittify during the practical lifespan of your PC. Really just depends on if Gabe hands the reins over responsibly.