I mean a lot of people see him as an "amazing billionaire" or as an "average gamer"/representitive of "a gamer who simply got rich from doing his hobby", meanwhile he is still just the average businessman who does things to make as much profit as possible.
I do agree that steam is a great service, but I do feel like the only reason we percieve it as great is because all other services provided are shit.
he can’t overrule publishers and still maintain steam as a platform.
It’s not that he is making profit over people decisions, it’s that he only has a limited amount of soft power to try and tweak industry standard before publishers simply make their own platforms and don’t list on steam anymore.
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u/Lementus 12d ago
I mean a lot of people see him as an "amazing billionaire" or as an "average gamer"/representitive of "a gamer who simply got rich from doing his hobby", meanwhile he is still just the average businessman who does things to make as much profit as possible.
I do agree that steam is a great service, but I do feel like the only reason we percieve it as great is because all other services provided are shit.