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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Gaben's last dying wish is to make every game work on Linux and donates $1 billion to making it happen.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Someone's been gaming too much.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

gaben is a smart man, i doubt that he isn't aware of his own mortality, and presumably has someone who he trusts, that he will appoint the position.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

It would be beautiful if he just handed the keys over to a true believer when it's time. Just a quality, stand up person who already has a pocket full of cash and just wants to help gamers get games and indie devs distribute them without squeezing every drop of profit they can at every step.

edit: it'd be even beautifuler if he turned it over to a trust managed by a panel of elected employee representatives

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Making the company employee owned would be ideal.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

i feel like there have to be at least three, from his (family? Does he have one? I believe he does, but can't be bothered to check)

to someone in the company, perhaps there are numerous positions that exist solely to prevent this kind of hostile takeover from happening? Who knows!

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

It's inevitable.

But if steam becomes enshittified I'll move onto something else and use torrent sites to download the older games I care about that I've bought on steam. It wouldn't really be pirating them, since I've bought them already.

For now steam is fine, and I appreciate the work they've done on supporting Linux, so I'll keep on using it to buy games.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Sucks being old.

Is it just prejudice? Stereotype? Laziness?

You see this happen to everything. It all gets enshittified. These corps that started out for the end user all end up selling out for profits.

It’s not a secret, not a revelation, nothing new.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

I kind of hope gaben has set up something smart for his death. Eg Valve is owned by a trust.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Can't Gabe do what John Bogle did with Vanguard and transfer ownership to the employees and clients?

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