The most promising Disco Elysium successor studio says workers must unite to topple Valve's 'digital fiefdom' of Steam
The most promising Disco Elysium successor studio says workers must unite to topple Valve's 'digital fiefdom' of Steam
We keep joking about PC Gamer being a communist magazine but holy shit we've straight up got links to marxist.org in the article
They're just doing their research!
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ZA/UM (Unified Marxist-Leninist) vs ZA/UM (Maoist Centre) vs ZA/UM (Workers Peasants Party)
Is it bad I like steam for what they've done for Linux gaming
Also piracy, indirectly
At least proton is open source
Linux is self-serving for them because it's the only way to not have to pay a third-party for licensing the OS. Enjoying the side effects of that is still fine though.
If I'm not mistaken Steam is cooperatively owned by its employees, which is why it's far from the worst hegemonic online distribution platform.I was mistaken, see below.
It's not a co-op. They're just relatively small and mostly hire senior developers who demand a higher level of respect and work/life balance. They used to only work on projects people had interest in based on consensus and personal interest. People floated between teams, you were free to convince people to work on your pet project instead, etc. They stopped doing that when they started on Half Life Alyx and talk about it in the design booklet because it also meant that literally nothing ever got completed since there was no direction and promising projects floundered from lack of support.
Everybody is defending Steam like it isn't a nasty proprietary binary blob shit-stain on their Linux system to play their video games. Lefty gaming should become a scene totally divorced from the market, with extremely exclusive clubs of amateur developers, artists and writers bringing games back to their essence.
Something like itch.io but decentralized? Like an open source fediverse-style storefront?
No like real fuck off collectives that run their own gits and people make cringe urban legend Reddit posts about.
Amen
does this code as like annoying pandering to anybody else
It is healthy to distrust anyone who is trying to sell you something
I mean yeah, they're right, but as long as capitalist conditions exist, I'll take Steam over EA or Epic.
It'd be really nice if Itch.io's employees bought it out and turned it into a coop.
I agree and hope that what comes after it is even better at supporting gaming on GNU/Linux and contributing to various libre and opensource projects like KDE and Proton and Mesa and such.
the SteamBox (with the Steam Controller) was the first attempt at a Linux based "console".
they improved those designs greatly and re-released it as the SteamDeck. I challenge you to find a better PC than the SteamDeck for less than $400.
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Good on them. Steam is the reason that you don’t ‘own’ games anymore, you pay a company a fee to be able to access it.
always has been. They were just forced to be more up front about it.GOG is better in that respect
You've never owned games. You've always owned a license to run a game. The license used to be tied to a piece of physical media. Now it's not. But the underlying legal model never changed.
I know Gabe Newell is a dumbass libertarian type and that Valve is a weird workplace with... not the best conditions (or so I've heard) but at least steam isn't doing all the bullshit all the other big platforms (that failed because they tried to do all sorts of bs) tried to do. Not talking about epic, but all those proprietary platforms, windows live or whatever it was for example.
Gonna be interesting to see what happens when he dies. Just full venture capital I imagine
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