"Simp squad, UNITE!

Hurry guys, we have to protect daddy Gaben. This heretic must know how shit his opinion is. Be sure to be clever! We know its actually impossible to defend billionaires with logic so just insult the comment itself!"

Imagine defending a man that spends 100 million a year on yatch maintenance.

30% of all the money you spend on games goes directly to Gabens Greed Fund, and you clap. Gross.

Ahhhhh, I get it, sorry I misunderstood. It’s very rare I get comments actually agreeing with me on the subject.

“Daddy Gaben can do the bad thing because he was first to do it, heehee”

The fact is we need new regulations and laws but the government will never act if bootlickers like you are the majority.

Stop defending billionaires that are actively robbing you.

Would you ever say the same thing if I was being critical of Bezos or Musk.

The fact is Steam is the only company that benefits from an army of simps ready to defend Gaben at the slightest hint of negativity.

This article is literally a puff piece.

Are you sure I’m the one part of the hive mind, with my 36 downvotes? Your comment is very ironic.

When is this guy going to start wearing a turtle neck? Yeah, he’s been capitalizing alright, enough to own 1 billion dollars worth of mega yatchs.

How about he promises to stop raping the industry with his buddies at Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo.

I also think location has to do with it. The dev team behind Coromon are in Europe while both Nintendo and the Palworld devs are in Japan.

From what I understand from a previous article, japanese patent laws can be quite strict.

I’m highlighting when you responded to the same comment three times in quick succession.

Your one word lol replies imply I’ve lost my cool but the above behavior kind of points to the opposite and that it is in fact projection.

You came into this conversation angry, seeing as how I insulted your hero. You came in barging saying I was embarrassing you and called my opinion “dogshit”.

Remember that you sought me out and responded to my comment, and have continued for quite a bit of time.

I suggest you revise the conversation and review your behavior in a more critical way, so you can learn from it. I’m not judging you but this isn’t very productive so have a nice day.

Lol

Lol

What’s funny is you simping for Game Master Gaben and thinking you can call yourself an anti capitalist at the same time.

Lol

I have to be harsh because Steam has so many fan boys.

No matter what you tell yourself, if you come here explicitly to tell me to shut up, you are defending him.

If you think there’s a better way to do it, do so in the next one but I doubt you have ever said anything critical about Gaben or steam, or plan to.

I’m not here to make you look good, I’m not a part of your crew. Idgaf about your opinion, I’m here to say Gaben and Steam sucks.

Stop defending billionaires.

You are in a thread about how Steam does shitty practices and you are telling one of the few agreeing and being critical of Steam to shut up.

Stop defending billonaires.

Reread our conversation. You are the one being agressive.

I shouldn’t have to be silent in what I believe in because you think it makes you look bad by association. It’s a silly reason to begin with and mostly imaginary.

You have basically called me an idiot multiple times and threw colorful language like dogshit at me. I dont mind but it does make your perceived slight seem hypocritical. Stop playing the victim, no one is asking you to respond.

I’m also not here to represent you. Im not part of your club. For one, I can’t be because I hate all billionaires, not just the ones that aren’t popular.

Making 10 billion in a year while having 70 employees isn’t a compelling argument to you?

Are you sure you know what anti-capitalism is?

Do you know of any other company that racks in as much cash and gets defended this hard? All I’m seeing is people defending an other billionaire cunt just because they use his product.

Would you tell me to shut up if I was denouncing Elon Musk or Bezos? You can’t be anti-capitalism and pro-Steam. The moment you defend a billionaire, you are part of the problem.

If you are arguing with someone, and then stop doing so to respond to others that are arguing with him instead, so you can pat each other on the back, it’s a circle jerk.

If you don’t want to be called a bootlicker, stop defending billionaires.

You know what’s funny, I used to get this same kind of attitude when I’d bash Elon Musk when he was popular a few years ago.

It’s even worst when the billionaire is being defended by his own con victims.

You responded to him not only to get his praise, but so I’d miss it and wouldn’t challenge your opinion. It’s the definition of a circle jerk. And you literally talked about me and my previous inputs in the comment in a derogatory way. It’s rude.

I don’t blame Gaben for owning more yacht’s than anyone needs, because, at the end of the day, he’s providing a quality service through an unfair system.

This is what I mean by bootlickers being the problem. I’m exaggerating when I say you make him out to look like a victim, but this praise is way too heavy. He is the unfair system. He could have taken a step back after his first mega yatch but he choose to keep the ball rolling with his buddies at Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo.

Lack of funding is mentioned every paragraph?

belt-tightening can often mean simply shutting down.

Sheffield says it’s hard not to feel guilty when other studios go under, even as his own struggles. “We’re all kind of fighting for a tiny slice of the same pie,”

“When an indie doesn’t get funding for its game, you just quietly never see their work again,”

The industry is struggling because steam and the other stores keep them on the brink, they have no leeway. I don’t know how steams greed could be seen as unrelated.

Its kind of a shame that you respond to him instead of me, you are literally circle jerking each other.

Homie over her is just tired of seeing simps defend this pos billionaire and his company. The fact is the government will never act if this is the kind of vibe they’re getting from the community. Bootlickers are holding us back.

He is not just part of the unfair system, he is 1/4 of it. You make it sound like poor old gaben is a victim here and was forced to participate in collusion and robbing a whole industry blind.

One data point I found interesting: Valve peaked with its “Games” payroll spending in 2017 at $221 million (the company didn’t release any new games that year, but that spending could have gone toward supporting games like Dota 2 and developing new games like Artifact); by 2021, that was down to $192 million. Another: as of 2021, Valve employed just 79 people for Steam, which is one of the most influential gaming storefronts on the planet.

“Hardware,” to my surprise, has been a relatively small part of the company, with just 41 employees paid a gross of more than $17 million in 2021.

From the verge article

Here’s the topline from 2021: Of those 336 employees, 79 directly worked on Steam, while a whopping 181 remained in the “Games” department⁠—pretty much the reverse of what I expected, given Steam’s importance to company profits and how rarely Valve releases new games. There were just 41 employees working on hardware development at that time

From the PC gamer article right under.

Literally the first two links after the statistica link (which also has it but you have to make an account), at least for me. Are you done being an idiot?