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[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 weeks ago

Wow. Say what you want about them, but that is some good shit right there. I've been getting emails for months from some random fucks telling me about arbitration agreements, and steam releases this. One more reason to love the company.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago (17 children)

IANAL, what does this mean?

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[–] [email protected] 168 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I was kinda worried when I saw the subject line of the email.

Steam is actually pretty decent, by company standards.

[–] [email protected] 79 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

Yeah, but Gabe is down to 25% ownership.

He could be pushed out at anytime. It's this weird situation where if a serious challenger to Steam really takes off, the 75% may demand Steam gets shittier to make more money.

But Gabe won't last forever anyways, who knows what will happen without him. Which means people do want some kind of challenger to prevent a monopoly, but that just makes the other scenario more likely

Steam is already a huge outlier

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago

Not just decent, it's one of the best companies to exist

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