As a fan of TF2, I'll quote another greentext: "does nothing, competition keeps shooting themself in the foot." It was about Overwatch vs TF2, but it's mostly similar.
this post was submitted on 07 Dec 2025
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Also, steam deck and steam machines aren't sold at a loss
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The power vacuum this man will leave behind sucks.
Believing that sales exist to save people money is the funniest shit i have ever seen.
I was extremely impressed that Valve did an RMA replacement for one of my Index base stations even out of warranty. They explicitly did not have to do that. It’s been years but I’m still amazed
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Love live Lord Gaben!
"Sells hardware at a loss to hook you into the steam ecosystem and make more money by selling you software" FTFY
Don't get me wrong, as companies go I like valve, but to say they aren't making decisions based on making more money and just out of altruistic motives is madness. Businesses that aren't healthy and competitive die, even if they have rabid fans.
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I think this is factually wrong, Steam only introduced refunds because they were forced to for the European market
I believe it was Australia
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Never thought I’d see the day when Lemmy has nice things to say about a billionaire who owns multiple yachts!
There’s a story recently about how a huge percentage of people’s steam libraries are never played. People just spending money on steam sales and amassing huge backlogs of games they’ll never get to. Valve has mastered the art of using sales to create FOMO and drive unnecessary spending!
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When he dies gaming lives on within us.
2 words though "Kiddie gambling".
Sure Steam is one of the less evil companies out there, but they're far from innocent.
They sell their hardware at a loss?
Also, that's not necessarily because they put the consumers' needs ~~advice~~ above anything else. Sony and Microsoft do this all the time simply for market share.
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Not at a loss. We still don't know the prices of the new wave of hardware, but some Valve spokesperson has said that they wouldn't subsidize the price of the hardware with future game sales. They've also said, when the Steam Deck was launched, that affordability was a massive factor in the design, and that some of the decisions to make that happen were "painful".
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All of the Valve employees are making bank. I don't think they'll be changing their core values any time soon even if he dies.