What is extremely worrying .. is how bad the potential for PC Gaming scene to get when Gabe reaches the end of his path & dies. So few people with merit & principle exist at that stage of control and I do think there will be a subtle bloodbath to control the major hub for western vidya entertainment.
After all, the Feminists & Marxists captured the high ground in physical book publishing for SF&F and destroyed Masculinity in the printed scene since 2009-2010. Lord of the Rings, Foundation, Starship Troopers, and Wheel of Time would not be published as a series under these overseers.
Gabe Newell is only 62 years old at the moment and doesn't need money so his influence is his own. But one day, like it is for everyone, he'll not be with us and so who will make sure that Steam and Valve stay on a steady course and don't bend to whims like every sodomised fucker in every other field of influence has done throughout time?
Trusts can tie things together and that will outlive us all but, as The Guardian has so bravely shown, trust funds can be pirated and fall into hands who were never once thought of as capable of sailing them.
Only history can tell but when you look at legacies like Carnegie's you can see the wrong people get in control using nefarious reasons and try to start a revolution with tools they could never have conceived of on their best days.
What is extremely worrying .. is how bad the potential for PC Gaming scene to get when Gabe reaches the end of his path & dies. So few people with merit & principle exist at that stage of control and I do think there will be a subtle bloodbath to control the major hub for western vidya entertainment.
After all, the Feminists & Marxists captured the high ground in physical book publishing for SF&F and destroyed Masculinity in the printed scene since 2009-2010. Lord of the Rings, Foundation, Starship Troopers, and Wheel of Time would not be published as a series under these overseers.
We have to go back to physical media. There's no question what happens when Gabe dies.
Steam kills everything it ever did, re-brands itself, and declares war against it's userbase.
It happens 100% of the time.
If that happens, the pirating community will just win. No one will trust any other of thr big companies
Pirating is a worse solution than going back to physical media.
That's an interesting thread all of its own.
Gabe Newell is only 62 years old at the moment and doesn't need money so his influence is his own. But one day, like it is for everyone, he'll not be with us and so who will make sure that Steam and Valve stay on a steady course and don't bend to whims like every sodomised fucker in every other field of influence has done throughout time?
Trusts can tie things together and that will outlive us all but, as The Guardian has so bravely shown, trust funds can be pirated and fall into hands who were never once thought of as capable of sailing them.
Only history can tell but when you look at legacies like Carnegie's you can see the wrong people get in control using nefarious reasons and try to start a revolution with tools they could never have conceived of on their best days.
Im already pretty much sticking to games from the past anyways. I hardly play a modern game now, so I doubt I will at that point either.
But either way you're correct.