miskGabe 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
Chloé 🥕that moment when the One Good Billionaire™ casually orders a boat that costs several times more money than most of us will ever see in our lifetimes 🙃
i get that there’s worse out there but i’m tired of people acting like newell is a saint… he’s just another billionaire.
Snot FlickermanPeople need to remember a lot of the pro-consumer things that Valve has ever done were things they were forced to by regulation.
Like being able to return games? That was to comply with an Australian law, and it was just easier to implement it for everyone than just do it for Australia specifically.
I like Valve more than most companies, but exactly, they are not Saints by any measure.
ricecakeWe’re just at the point where “basically fine” is hands down better than the majority. Even if they were forced by regulation, they followed the regulations instead of ignoring them and fighting an insane court battle to nit pick it for the next decade.
Like, valve doesn’t seem to be trying to undermine democracy or somehow bring about an actively worse world. They seem to mostly obey the law and keep orderly as regulations change.
If you said you wouldn’t mind living Gabes life, I wouldn’t think you’re a sociopath.
People saying that valve is great says a lot more about the rest of the companies than it does about valve, but it still leaves valve near the top of the pile.