> 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.

So true, plus lugging your gear out to the shore. This is why I only do boat dives.

There are plenty of non CEO jobs with similar requirements

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.

I am literally a dev

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.

I wonder, is there good equipment available to go scuba diving with a full beard?

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.

I would 100% still work if I were rich. The only thing that would change is when and what I work on.

They hated him because he spoke the truth.

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.

Sounds like a pretty good life.

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.

Gaben is a billionaire many times over, he owns half a dozen yachts, and valve has like 100 employees. They could take 5% without changing a single thing and still be fabulously wealthy. Greed corrupts