G*mers: "that's not going to stop me. I can't read"

Gabe Newell is not a usual CEO though.

Better watch out for Japanese whaling vessels lol

Gabe Newell is better than many others, but this is true, the best man on Earth will become an absolute pissbag given power for continuous enough period of time to realize that. And the best man on Earth is probably some volunteer medic in some African warzone, not a computer programmer and a tech businessman.

That includes some bad people too ... Well, I dunno how bad, just a certain Larry Ellison still loves working, or so I've heard. Or Bill Gates.

Gabe shouldnt be able to have the money he has, but his yacht ownership isn't the issue many are making when pointing it out. One is his home, full time, any home he was going own was realistically going to suck for the environment. Last I read the others are all like research vessels, emergency medical facilities for disaster relief, and humanitarian aid, and shit. Not like a zuck's smaller yacht to act as a helipad for his larger yacht thing. maybe some day we will have a system that prevents people from having that much money, until then any place with an active enough economy has some assholes owning yachts.

I do, that's why I said something.

I don't take issue with rich people. Owning boats worth US$1 billion is past the point of rich.

No offense to you, but you sound stupid and not very smart either.

Greedily taking up an obscene excess of resources and producing crazy amount of emissions and pollution makes the planet less livable for the rest of us. Yachts do those things.

He exploited gambling addictions and taking 30% from devs by doing nothing. Earned is a pretty strong word.

> Personally, I don’t think billionaires should exist. Even the ones that I think have done cool things. Yeah, it's in the intersection of two "doubt" points making one "almost sure" points. First, people getting power get spoiled fast, it's not possible to resist, it's as if I could have any girl I like and she'd like me and I knew that, just no chance to avoid a sensory burnout after a few months of, eh, feeling that. The possibility that a person can resist that is very small, people like Aristotle Onassis, maybe. Second, if one person is worth, say, 12000 times more than another person, it's important to ask whether they really are, or they can be replaced with like 50 of equals of that another person with proper organization and discipline. The possibility that they really are is almost negligibly small, there are a few people alive for whom one can suggest that and maybe more, but most are like those people we know and love. I can imagine Gabe Newel being worth 100, maybe 1000 times me for the humanity, purely financially, but something of bigger orders of magnitude seems preposterous. Not even touching upon money affecting our relative legal power balance, where even factor 2 difference is just morally not acceptable. Not that I'm of any bad opinion of Gabe, Steam is one today's company that both doesn't abuse its customers too much and does a lot of work on the positive side.

yep i didn't say he was normal just that would he his equivalent to a normal person going to the gym

Why are you taking the worth for granted though?

> taking 30% from devs by doing nothing. If this was true steam would have failed from the start. Instead, the service actually does offer a ton of benefits to both users and developers/publishers including distribution of sales, updates, additional features like forums, friends, and other things that have varying levels of positive or negative benefits to different people. That isn't even mentioning Proton or the steam deck, just what it between the makers of the games and the people who play them. Lootboxes are bullshit, sure. He should have spread out the benefits more to the employees as well. But the 30% cut for 'nothing' is incorrect.

He's definitely also not a "fixes the bug himself" CEO. We can pretend he's different. I can freely admit that I like to think he's different. But no way in hell is he fixing any kind of problem, that arises in the middle of the night, himself.

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.

> Gabe Newell owns 6 yachts worth an estimated US$1 billion Unfathomably based, let the man scuba dive in peace.

I'd argue that's precisely when you need 6 yachts, possibly more. If the coasts are gonna flood you should porbably own things that float.

> 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.