wonder if it’s going to rat someone out by saying something along the lines of
A member of your Steam Family already owns Horny Hentai Ladies: Stupidly huge dongs GOTY
I’m still not 100% trusting that. Any time a dev comes up with a new feature like this one, they might forget to implement a check if the game is privated (or do the check and mess up properly hiding it).
Exactly. This is like someone I knew who was a CSR blowing off steam at difficult customers by hitting mute and cussing them out. Like you realize that mechanisms fail all the time, right? This dude wouldn’t entertain the idea that a mute button could fail. I tried.
I keep seeing people talking about sexual games on steam. I’ve yet to see one. I’m sure they exist … but how common are they? Do people actually play those? Even if I wanted to do so, I would instantly assume because it’s on steam there’s a chance my friends could see me playing it no matter my settings, and that would be a no-go. It’s just awkward.
It’d be like jerking off with the shades open because “well no one is supposed to be in my backyard”. Okay but what if some kids are there to get their ball or something? You have to assume unexpected things will happen in life.
If Steam or Valve ever goes public and IPOs, I’m gonna fucking kill myself.
They seem to be the only ones who aren’t like going through an enshitification cycle right now.
Safest option would be to turn Valve into a foundation, similar to Zeiss: The company owns itself thus can’t be bought out, statutory stipulations go along the lines of “Make sure we don’t go bankrupt, do great optics, funnel some money to the University of Jena as well as less well off workers in the city”. No grand charitable aspirations besides being a good citizen as per 1846 bourgeois values (though that’d be Gabe’s choice), otherwise just continue as they’ve been doing. Make sure all stakeholders (incl. gamers, or at least Valve customers) have standing to enforce those statutes.
Good guy steam
This world really does not deserve Valve
And this boys is why we choose to give money to valve, and as a bonus steam sales are amazing. Valve really knows how to keep a steady income of profit and just dont fck with what works