Because EGS offers roughly 5% of the services Steam does, and Epic is still spending a shitload of money keeping EGS going at loss.

> 15 gaming PCs Priorities, eh?

Talk is cheap.

Good thing I have toxoplasmosis

You don't know what he does in the dark. You don't know the decisions he makes, the moves he pays for, or the things he does. You only see a very small amount of his actual life.

At the most he's the least horrible of them.

Developing a good game is not only a money problem.

> Whether the concept of billionaires is bad is irrelevant when deciding whether one specific billionaire is bad. Threre is no such thing as an ethical billionaire. An ethical billionaire doesn't remain a billionaire. If a suddenly recieved a billion dollars I'd be looking into the best way to donate most of it. I'm sure I could survive for the rest of my life just fine on $500 million dollars, and whatever causes I'm donating my money to know what they need and how to spend it better than I would by offering them a couple of rooms on my third yacht.

Gabe Poowell.

The fact of having a dragon's hoard of money while people starve is what I am looking at. Oh, look at that, Gabe has a dragon's hoard of money and people are starving.

Look at it from a different point of view: those 500 Million were moved from One Good Billionaire to Multiple Evil Millionairs. Yay.

What is it with millionaires and yachts? I hate boats, even on a calm day in a lake which is only about 2 m deep I'm constantly convinced the damn thing is going to sink. Do people actually like being on boats, it's basically like being in a cramped apartment that is really inconvenient to get to and from, that constantly experiences a never-ending earthquake, why is that anyone's idea of a good time? Also I *really* hope somebody has tested that submarine extensively.

What you're after is a bit of socialism. We don't have to kill all the millionaires and billionaires, they are just required to contribute to the world more than they take, as long as they do that they can have their luxury yachts. The problem is almost none of them actually do contribute anything to the world and most of the ones that do contribute things that the world doesn't want. Elon Musk contributes a lot of electric cars to the world, which would be a good thing, it's just a shame they're all dangerous killing machines.

Multiple online casinos for underage customers that he runs disagree.

Privacy and Security. You're out there where no paparazzi can take bikini pictures of you. It's easy to secure so that nobody can kidnap you. And take a look at the interior of those Yachts, they are not cramped. Look at this thing:  It's bigger than your home. It has its own helipad. It is 111m long.

Elephant shit for you then :)\ (just kidding.)

I've thought he was a piece of shit ever since he tried to monetize modding. He was so out of line, even [redditors downvoted him to hell](https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/33uplp/mods_and_steam/cqol9re/). I buy from gog or directly from the dev nowadays.

~~Millionaires~~ billionaires. It’s a dick-measuring contest from more civilised times.

In fairness, the employees are the highest paid in the industry, making well over 1/2 million a year + bonuses, and even the janitor I believe is well paid, from a leak that came out once in the news. They also have very few employees surprisingly. And they're private, so there's no "line must always go up" mentality either. Should they be paid even more? Yes, but compared to basically all other corporations, he's like last on the list. Not to mention gaming on Linux and open source software (and now, VR on Linux) has basically become possible and easily achievable thanks to Valve, so at least some of that huge money is going back directly to the relevant community. That's way more than can be said about any other tech company. He's still on the list, but he might be the furthest down.

Cat shit is not the same as elephant shit. Contents are different and there is a enormous difference in amounts. Would you rather have an elephant shit in your house of a cat shit in a litterbox in your house?