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submitted 2 weeks ago by Redacted@lemmy.world to c/steam@lemmy.ml

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Steam Companion Cube would have been a better name.

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[–] Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

That's because Valve has done awesome shit:

Made buying PC games simple. Automatic updates, free cloud saves, friends, etc.
Gave indie devs a market, so they could reach millions. Steam basically invented digital game downloading.
Pushed Linux gaming forward by funding driver and engine work, backed Vulkan, and built Proton.

Valve changed how PC games get sold and run, and made Linux gaming awesome. It was Gabe's vision that drove all of this. Sure he's massively rich, and the fanboyism can be kind of annoying, but just because a company got rich doesn't mean you can't like them.

[–] nagaram@startrek.website 3 points 2 weeks ago

The only real knock against him is the child gambling with lootboxes thing, but that's seemingly going away very slowly.