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Valve boss Gabe Newell reveals daily routine in bizarre new interview: "I get up, I work, I go scuba-diving, then work some more"
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The most athletic part is if you're beach diving and have to swim out/back in from the shallows.
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The thing isn't that they have constant work to do, but that they *must* be available for work at any time, for any reason.
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Valve only cares about Linux so far as their cut is concerned it’s not a humanitarian mission. The entire steam platform is incredibly dated, I mean it’s still 32 bit only for fucks sale, they developed a reasonable feature set two decades ago and have been coasting on their laurels ever since. Devs can’t complain because there’s no better alternative, it’s a captive market.Steam has been coasting on the fact that everyone shoots themselves in the foot, sure, but you should look into the unparalleled level of "free" (30% cut) marketing support Steam gives to developers. On no other platform could developers end up with the visibility they achieve on Steam with nothing more than very strategic timing and good social media presence. It's still insanely hard, but the fact that it's even possible to compete with zero marketing budget against AAA companies speaks volumes.
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> taking 30% from devs by doing nothing. LMAO tell me you are not a dev without telling me. Steam does a shitton for devs, the 30% is literally only for sales through their storefront, I can get any amount of keys and resell them wherever I want and give valve nothing, and they'll still host all my shit, check ownership, handle copy sharing in family libraries, handle patching and beta tests, all for a one time fee that is even refunded if you ever get past a certain amount of copies sold. You have no idea what the fuck you're talking about.
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This post did not contain any content.This man never does interviews. Then the one interview he does in the last 30 years is trash-tier editing of a vertical video of a laptop screen in a Zoom meeting from 20 feet away, that's only uploaded as Shorts, by some guy who only has 7 total videos uploaded ever. WTF is up with that?
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This man never does interviews. Then the one interview he does in the last 30 years is trash-tier editing of a vertical video of a laptop screen in a Zoom meeting from 20 feet away, that's only uploaded as Shorts, by some guy who only has 7 total videos uploaded ever. WTF is up with that?I can understand preferring scuba diving to doing interviews.
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>Man that has poured shitloads of money into turning linux into a more mainstream desktop platform is rich Wow.A huge chunk of that Linux development was paid for by exploiting child gambling. Just because one does a few good things with their money, doesn't justify how they got it.
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I just dont understand miney obsessed people. Why the hell do you need multiple yachts? Why even work at this point when you could just .. not? You would still afford everything you ever want without ever checking your bank account. I just dont get it.
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A huge chunk of that Linux development was paid for by exploiting child gambling. Just because one does a few good things with their money, doesn't justify how they got it.They hated him because he spoke the truth.
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I can understand preferring scuba diving to doing interviews.
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This post did not contain any content.Sounds like a pretty good life.
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If you're a game dev, then you should also know how valuable every service steam gives is, if you're just "a dev" then it's not really relevant beyond understanding how much setting up all of that infrastructure would cost in terms of time, effort, marketing to actually get discoverability, and actual server costs once you need to scale. Either way you should know enough to get that 30% is absolutely worth it.
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If you're a game dev, then you should also know how valuable every service steam gives is, if you're just "a dev" then it's not really relevant beyond understanding how much setting up all of that infrastructure would cost in terms of time, effort, marketing to actually get discoverability, and actual server costs once you need to scale. Either way you should know enough to get that 30% is absolutely worth it.
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Casual reminder that Gabe Newell owns 6 yachts worth an estimated US$1 billion and that he is not your friend.
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>Man that has poured shitloads of money into turning linux into a more mainstream desktop platform is rich Wow.Not sure exactly what you're trying to say here but I guarantee 0% of that wealth came from his investments in Linux support. Their investment in Linux is mostly a way of keeping MS in check, as in "if you try to fuck us the way Apple does with iOS, your customers will leave Windows because they'd rather have something where they can play their giant library of existing games".
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There is no ethical consumption under capitalism. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We can nitpick specific examples for everything you want, and we will be correct, but that detracts from the point that Gabe has helped to build things that took decades of slowly getting anywhere. I wish we didn't need it, but we do.
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I can't imagine how you read my comment and determined that the thing that confused me was why he doesn't do many interviews.
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