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Valve is possibly the closest thing to a non-evil company in the world today.
This is why Gabe is my billionaire of choice in the forthcoming billionaire mercenary wars.
When the corporation wars start over the remaining arable land and drinkable water, I'll be joining the Steam Corps
Maybe this is going to be the real Half Life 3. You thought it was scary in VR? Get ready for IRL.
I had to stop playing Half Life Alyx when it got to the dark flashlight bit with zombies jumping out at you. Nearly gave me a heart attack. Definitely couldn’t handle it IRL. edit: autocorrect
Yeah I definitely took breaks and actually just never went back after a certain point. Not because it was too intense directly, but one of my breaks, I just never went back.
Same. I was planning to but never did and that was years ago. Hoping to set up the old vive again soon.
One of the benefits of not going public, I guess
Supposedly he's doing this with his son. Only time will tell though.
Great, the Kendall Roy of Valve
Not exactly. Of course Gabe could be replaced by some idiot who fucks everything up, but if Valve doesn't become publicly traded it will continue to be in the best interest of whoever ends up owning it to continue doing things this way. Gabe doesn't do good things just because. He does it because happy customers means more money in the long run.
Publicly traded companies on the other hand need to extract as much money as quickly as possible and have no regards to what will happen to it a few months later. So even if Gabe dies, all Valve needs is a leader interested in what's best for itself.
How much time do we have?
Unfortunately gabe is also overweight and hence has the health risks associated with being overweight. So him only living till the average age has a higher possibility.
Private companies owned by institutional investors are no better.
The real difference is the the founder still own the company.
It's my understanding that Gabe's son is being prepped to take over when the time comes. Hopefully he shares his father's values.
Eh, it sounds more like he wants then to go back to the roots and developer a groundbreaking game, like Portal, or HL2, again. Which doesn't sound like a bad thing. To do something groundbreaking it probably helps if you dare to do something that is scary.
Yeah, you are correct, and that's why I think he was talking about games specifically. That's a grade A assumption from me though (and a bit of hopium?)
People here are so scared of bad things happening that they can't even imagine that something good might happen.
@SnotFlickerman @Cavemanfreak
And one hell of a lot of work, too! Reimplementing the Windows APIs that Wine didn't already have, and then optimizing those implementations enough to be not only sufficient for some of the most performance-sensitive software under the sun but *faster than actual Windows*, is no small feat.
Unrelated: do you know a hot saucerman or are there 4 fans of this random show-cast?
So SteamDeck, Valve Index and pushing back against the short-term money maker that was NFTs until half a year or so, among other things, aren't scary enough projects when you're "just" a game developer and distributor?
Hope is the word that scares me here
I love their approach to Hardware and Linux but have we collectively forgotten that Valve had a huge part in pushing loot boxes and underage gambling? Far from being the least evil company, but still a net win for consumers and I appreciate that they exist.
And you wanna know why? :)
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It's because they're not public. So investors can't ruin everything like they always do.More specifically “private equity” investors who are gradually looting the US economy.
Yeh, you say that. But you know they finished Half Life 4 about 2 years ago and are holding it back on purpose
Mostly because they have to wait for Half-Life 3 in order not to confuse the customers.
That’s been in the warehouse for 10 years.