One extremely important factor that this article neglects to address: Valve is a private company - it’s not publicly traded in Wall Street. That is the reason Steam has remained the best in the business; it’s not beholden to shareholders’ short-sighted meddling. It’s also the reason Steam is effectively immune to enshittification.
Valve has avoided many of the same anti-consumer moves as other tech and gaming giants, likely due to its smaller size, status as a non-public company, and the long-time leadership of Gabe Newell and other executives. Valve won’t stay that way forever—the company is not immune to the pressures of capitalism, and there are already examples of anti-consumer behavior.
Valve is not immune to enshittification, and it has already happened on some level with minimal current Mac support, facilitating gambling through item trades, etc.
Valve doesn’t support Mac because Apple doesn’t support gaming. They’ve made it abundantly clear that they have no interest (outside of iOS) for decades.
Speaking of shitty companies, Apple is top-tier shit, and no one should be buying their hardware anyway.
One extremely important factor that this article neglects to address: Valve is a private company - it’s not publicly traded in Wall Street. That is the reason Steam has remained the best in the business; it’s not beholden to shareholders’ short-sighted meddling. It’s also the reason Steam is effectively immune to enshittification.
Valve is not immune to enshittification, and it has already happened on some level with minimal current Mac support, facilitating gambling through item trades, etc.
Valve doesn’t support Mac because Apple doesn’t support gaming. They’ve made it abundantly clear that they have no interest (outside of iOS) for decades.
Speaking of shitty companies, Apple is top-tier shit, and no one should be buying their hardware anyway.
1000% disagree. There are endless shitty private companies. Valve is only not shitty because of Gabe. And also they’re not completely free of shit.
Their 30% fees are insane and they pretty much invented microtransactions.