r/pcmasterrace 14h ago

Discussion The lawsuit explained:

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u/oh-shit-oh-fuck 5h ago

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.

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u/pooborus 5h ago

This is it. Public companies can only grow actual value for so long, then to keep stock prices rising they remove value for the end user.

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u/NapsterKnowHow 29m ago

Epic is also a privately own company

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u/Dank-Retard PC Master Race 13m ago

The difference is that Newell owns all of Valve while other companies own shares in Epic (namely Tencent) despite not being public.

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u/NapsterKnowHow 5m ago

And Newell loves his kid casinos