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Gabe Newell caps off Steam Machine week by taking delivery of a new $500 million superyacht with a submarine garage, on-board hospital and 15 gaming PCs
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He owns a lot of boats, both the RV6000 (currently being constructed) and the Pressure Drop belong to him - pressure drop does some very good science, and has for quite a long time. He *also* owns a fleet of pleasure yachts. The two groups of ships are conflated for... reasons I actually cannot understand.
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Would bet cash money this article was sponsored by Tim Sweeny, who is also a billionaire lol. Not saying this excuses Gabe Newell in any way, but this was made purely to attack Valve's newly announced product. They had no issue when a billionaire with an order of magnitude more wealth than both Tim or Gabe went around advertising his shitty Amazon MMO: https://www.pcgamer.com/jeff-bezos-heralds-new-worlds-success-after-many-failures-and-setbacks-in-gaming/ >It's impossible to say where New World will be in a year, whether it will be on the road to obscurity or finally giving World of Warcraft something to sweat about, but right now it's a huge success that validates the commitment and patience Amazon has taken with it. Bezos may not have had a direct hand in its creation, but as the person who greenlighted Amazon's foray into gaming more than a half-decade ago, you can understand his pride in it. 
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Okay yeah as a non gamer I wasnt sure of the problem. I had heard he has great employee benefits and people generally love the product so I wasnt seeing the issue with the success but thisnis a major issue. Obviously he should be taxed more and all that jazz too.
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No, I mean he _literally does not run those._ It's like blaming the bank for 'running a drug empire' when someone buys some weed.
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He's come a long way on the last decade. 
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Yes, he's the president of _Valve_, not the CEO of multiple online casinos for underage customers. Those generally are not based in the US in the first place.
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That's like arguing the guy who beats his wife isn't so bad because he used to cut on her too, but stopped. It should be 10% max for a store. And publishers all take too big a cut as well
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He bought that off the tears of teenagers not getting the knife they wanted over and over and over again. Scumbag.
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Everyone on here acts like Gabe is THEIR billionaire, and Steam is THEIR capitalist billionaire corporation. Gabe is a dirtbag and a thief by the sole virtue of being a billionaire. Nobody earns a billion dollars, you get it by stealing wages and time from the workers below you. Steam is a dirtbag corporation as well, no matter how many fanboys try to sweep Steam’s history of fuckery under the rugIt turns out that things are complicated, and that a company that is pro consumer in so many ways that almost nothing else is can get praised for that and denigrated for doing predatory loot boxes. And that a billionaire owner can get praised for maintaining a pro consumer company and denigrated for running a loot box racket and buying yachts. All at the same time. It's so exhausting how people like you have to go on every thread and complain that people are happy about something instead of mad about everything, energy single time the company comes up. *sigh*
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Real. Give me a state of the art lab for multidisciplinary scientific research and some of the world's best scientists to do as they wish in that lab. I have so many unanswered questions about the universe.
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Why did various EU regulators had to tell Valve that their gambling business is illegal? It remains legal in some and so he continues to run them there.Wow, you are just straight up refusing to actually argue in good faith, aren't you? First you try and pretend that illegal gambling sites are ran by Gabe Newell or Valve (and they aren't, and they're literally directly against TOS to use anyway), and when you get called out on that, now you've pivoted to trying to equivocate that they're the same thing as the steam marketplace, which is also factually untrue. Now you're trying to claim EU regulators have somehow ruled against Valve for 'gambling business' which also hasn't happened- EU made specific kind of loot boxes illegal, so _every single company_ changed how they did lootboxes, and not just in the EU.
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Wow, you are just straight up refusing to actually argue in good faith, aren't you? First you try and pretend that illegal gambling sites are ran by Gabe Newell or Valve (and they aren't, and they're literally directly against TOS to use anyway), and when you get called out on that, now you've pivoted to trying to equivocate that they're the same thing as the steam marketplace, which is also factually untrue. Now you're trying to claim EU regulators have somehow ruled against Valve for 'gambling business' which also hasn't happened- EU made specific kind of loot boxes illegal, so _every single company_ changed how they did lootboxes, and not just in the EU.Lootboxes are gambling. Courts in multiple jurisdictions like Netherlands, Belgium or Austria off top of my head agree. I realise it’s normalised in some countries and some people don’t want to admit they have a problem, but that doesn’t mean people have to accept it. You’re not the best at googling I guess.