Linux Gaming @lemmy.ml jack000999 @lemmy.ml 8 mo. ago

This is why Valve supports and actively pushes Linux Gaming.

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Valve good.

But valve company. Company bad.

But valve company do good thing.

But selfish reason.

But good outcome.

But what if no GabeN.

We pray.
- Valve is motivated by money. But their strategy is to make excellent products, that put the customers first. A rare sight these days.
  
  I think the the main reason is that they're private with no intention to go public. They're not beholden to random shareholders who know nothing about games and just want infinite growth, their decisions are actually made by people inside the company.
  
  Valve's strategy is to maintain dominance of their software platform, Steam.
  
  It has been pushing Linux as a viable computer platform as a counter to if/when Microsoft wanted to monetize PC gaming in direct competition to Steam, which seems to be a wise decision.
  
  Valve is one of the few big companies that still knows money comes from users and users come from a good product
  
  Gaben is fucking smart and gives a shit.
  
  Not just money, they're motivated by a long-term success. A lot of these companies can't see past this quarter's profits and bring a lot of Goodwill trying to make the numbers go up forever.
- If they ever went public & were legally bound to make profit for shareholders, there would be no good feelings anymore.
  
  Going public is usually bad for product quality and consumer oriented business models.
  
  Private companies still have shareholders who they are bound to make profit for. They're just shareholders not fixated on stock value as it's not publicly traded.
- We pray.
- We pray.
- 🙏🏻
- Hahaha thanks for this. I really find it fascinating how bad CEOs make lemmy think all companies are bad. It makes no sense.
  
  Blame the system maybe, I get that. But good grief we are all trying to make a living. The only way to do it is to do business. Like any system, it will be exploited, but I'm not gonna shit on private companies especially who clearly have a vision and don't need investor snobs to drive them to commit evil.
  
  I meant it the other way around. No matter how benevolent a dictatorship is, eventually the dictator will change and you better hope there will be another benevolent one.
  
  I personally don't think the problem is doing business. I think the problem is businesses not being democratic.
  
  Thats funny because shareholders are deeply involved in Valve, and those shareholders frequently decide which products get investment and which don't.
  
  It's not their own opinion, they're just repeating what they learned online. There's multiple valve devs being "exploited" for $250k a year, it's really tragic. They even exploit their worker by having college classes on the top of their building for their employees.
- Valve gud. EA bad. Why Valve gud? Because me am told Valve gud. Why EA bad? Because me an told EA bad. Fact that each is purely motivated by profit and that my sentiment is almost entirely a byproduct of effective Valve PR coupled with it being the defacto gaming marketplace for 20 years and that the only value I have to it is as a data point in a spreadsheet is lost on me.
The day Gaben resigns from Valve will be a terrible day. I hope he has his succession in order.
- "Please pay this monthly access fee to maintain access to your account."
  
  “Please pay this monthly access fee to maintain access to your account.”
  
  that's the day you download all your game catalog to disk and cancel your account, of course
The "bluescreen" was actually a bunch of hints at Portal 2's announcement at E3 later that year IIRC, but whatever.
- They could have talked about windows 8's closed ecosystem and UWPs, but I guess this is easier to point the finger at.
"This isn't working" SteamVR on Linux after another "bugfix"
- Seriously though. After years SteamVR still doesn't work with their own headset.
  
  Even plural, this applies to Vive and Vive Pro
  
  it does work totally fine, it just doesn't have feature parity with windows. use it all the time :)
Classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYWzMvlj2RQ
- Still relevant over a decade later
  
  And yet there are linux users who know about it and still buy stuff with NVIDIA in it.
  
  What saddens me is that there are even linux hardware vendors that actively sell stuff with NVIDIA in it.
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