“When you look at the fact that these people have $2000 PCs and they’re spending $50 a month or more on their Internet connections, clearly they’re willing to spend money.
So, from our point of view, what we saw more and more was that piracy is a result of bad service on the part of game companies…”
The greatest thing he’s done is kept Valve a private company. He’s not beholden to shareholders constantly demanding that the line go up at any cost.
Funny how he’s still fantastically wealthy. It’s almost like treating your employees well and providing a quality product to consumers is a viable path to success, and selling out isn’t actually necessary to become rich.
It’s never a good idea to fall in love with CEOs; a company may sometime “help” their customer, but when strategic partner asks for a slap in the face for the customer… there’s no “may”, only must.
Steam comes with Denuvo, third party launcher filled with ads and kernel level anticheat. None of these was required by Valve… yet… they still slap their customer in the face per strategic parteners requests.
Also, refund is not something in Gabe’s book: it was written in Australia’s laws (also EU and other countries) and only after lot of struggles he conceded it.
Denuvo is not by Steam. It’s a third party DRM that the publisher of the game decides to put it. Steam should not be in a position to decide what the publisher do. The anger about Denuvo should be focused on the publisher, not Valve / Steam. I don’t know why you think I fall in love with Gabe… I just admire that he understands the gamers and does stuff in Steam that reflects it. Compared to other out of touch CEOs. No need to interpret more that that what I said. And no need to mud something that is positive.
Gabe Newell talked about this years ago.
Gabe is one of the CEOs (if we can call him one?) of a gaming company, who truly understands gamers.
The greatest thing he’s done is kept Valve a private company. He’s not beholden to shareholders constantly demanding that the line go up at any cost.
Funny how he’s still fantastically wealthy. It’s almost like treating your employees well and providing a quality product to consumers is a viable path to success, and selling out isn’t actually necessary to become rich.
Fuck shareholders. They are make no money out the ass. Why tether themselves to silicon valley douches or whatever.
It’s never a good idea to fall in love with CEOs; a company may sometime “help” their customer, but when strategic partner asks for a slap in the face for the customer… there’s no “may”, only must.
Steam comes with Denuvo, third party launcher filled with ads and kernel level anticheat. None of these was required by Valve… yet… they still slap their customer in the face per strategic parteners requests.
Also, refund is not something in Gabe’s book: it was written in Australia’s laws (also EU and other countries) and only after lot of struggles he conceded it.
Denuvo is not by Steam. It’s a third party DRM that the publisher of the game decides to put it. Steam should not be in a position to decide what the publisher do. The anger about Denuvo should be focused on the publisher, not Valve / Steam. I don’t know why you think I fall in love with Gabe… I just admire that he understands the gamers and does stuff in Steam that reflects it. Compared to other out of touch CEOs. No need to interpret more that that what I said. And no need to mud something that is positive.