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Valve unintentionally set the stage for today's digital economic hellscape, according to its former economist in residence (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 3 months ago (29 children)

Valve is the only good thing in the hellscape. Linux support, cheap games and free multiplayer.

Who else provides this?

[+] [email protected] -26 points 3 months ago (19 children)

Did you read the article? One of their really own says they are to blame for the hellscape!

Valve's implementation of its in-game stores and the Steam marketplace, Varoufakis says, emerged from a need to balance monetization with a fear that if the company didn't create its own systems for exchange between players, they would "take it outside"

They are a for profit company, they most likely support linux so that people don't "take it outside" their useless proprietary launcher.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago (11 children)

"...their useless proprietary launcher." Steam is by far the least useless launcher out there. Steam has so many incredibly useful features such as remote play together, community controller layouts, the workshop, cloud saves, family library sharing, etc. Not to mention that they continue to keep adding new features that no other launcher is even close to having such as the new game recording feature that is currently in beta.

Sure, Valve charge a pretty decent amount to game developers for the sale of a game, but they provide a load of features in exchange.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And it's been said by many developers that they literally 100x their sales when they go to Steam. PCs are an open ecosystem.

Not directed at OP.

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