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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Perhaps, but on the other side of that coin: Because valve doesn’t have legal obligations to make money snd increase shareholder value, they put a lot of money elsewhere. The products they create are awesome (literally the best launcher on PC, Tim Sweeney is probably upset because his is ass) and invest heavily in things better for gamers:

    • digital returns were huge when they first rolled out
    • (IMO) spearheading game streaming with steam in home streaming & the steam link
    • creating awesome games and not milking them for perpetual profit (other than maybe in game items but i don’t want to have this discussion)
    • investing heavily in alternative ways to play (steam machines, aforementioned steam link, VR/index, steam controller, steam deck)
    • legitimately spending money to make it possible to game on Linux, reducing gamers reliance on Microsoft/Windows