• CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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    14 days ago

    Gabe Newell has a net worth of $9.5 billion and there is no such thing as an ethical billionaire. Steam is great and as long as the company behaves well there’s no reason not to use it, but billionaires are not your friends.

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      14 days ago

      Sort of agree but look how much he’s done for Linux gaming. Also the steam deck was well thought out and designed to be user serviceable.

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        14 days ago

        Was that all Gabe? Or was that people at Valve who had the ideas and executed the ideas and Gabe is given credit for?

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          14 days ago

          “yes”? He’s definitely not building any significant fraction himself, but if he didn’t care for these things he wouldn’t let the company put so much resources into them.

          Credit for the things built goes to the people building them. Credit for it being possible to build goes to the people who founded and funded the teams

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      They are some rare cases where someone becomes a billionaire because something suddenly took off.