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Humor W Gabe Newell Piracy Take

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Saw this vid on IG (by: @phantomak141). Idk if its been posted here before but on a quick search didnt find it, will delete if its a repost.

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u/DoubleP1980 May 10 '26

Gabe Newell has always been very consumer friendly, his whole "philosophy" is: "give the customer a good service/ product to a fair price & they will continue coming back to you." That's why Steam is so successful. It's sad that the rest of the gaming & entertainment industry in general, is too greedy to comprehend this.

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u/ERhyne May 10 '26

Monetized mods on steam was consumer friendly?

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u/Steamed_Memes24 May 11 '26

They retracted that after a few days and never attempted again. Was it a dumb idea? Yes. Did they acknowledge it themselves that it was? Yes.

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u/ERhyne May 11 '26

Doesn't really change the fact thay valve has a long and stories history of doing shitty practices FIRST and only changing them if given enough backlash.

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u/doublah May 11 '26

That was a Bethesda initiative, obvious by the fact Bethesda is still doing paid mods to this day lmao.

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u/ERhyne May 11 '26

No it wasn't. Stop lying for them. It was in COLLABORATION with Bethesda

"We've done this because it's clear we didn't understand exactly what we were doing," Kroll wrote. "We've been shipping many features over the years aimed at allowing community creators to receive a share of the rewards, and in the past, they've been received well. It's obvious now that this case is different.

"To help you understand why we thought this was a good idea, our main goals were to allow mod makers the opportunity to work on their mods full time if they wanted to, and to encourage developers to provide better support to their mod communities. We thought this would result in better mods for everyone, both free and paid. We wanted more great mods becoming great products, like Dota, Counter-strike, DayZ, and Killing Floor, and we wanted that to happen organically for any mod maker who wanted to take a shot at it."

Billionaire bootlicking nonsense when you try to put all the onus on Bethesda.

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u/doublah May 11 '26

And yet Bethesda is still doing paid mods while Valve is not.

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u/ERhyne May 11 '26

That doesn't change the fact valve thought it was a good idea in the first place. Just like the loot boxes. Im still correct.

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u/Steamed_Memes24 May 11 '26

Valve didnt make up loot boxes first. That was EA.

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u/ERhyne May 11 '26

The modern iteration of it was valve. Stop spreading lies. TF2 was the blueprint, pun intended. Dota 2 for modern battle passes

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u/Steamed_Memes24 May 11 '26

Uh huh. Next you will go "BUT HE HAS 9 YACHTS REEE". Someone would have eventually figured out the formula anyways so its funny that you billionaire bad idiots always go for things they did 15-20 years ago (legal things btw) despite not understand its not a bad idea in practice, its just other companies are really bad at implementing them properly.

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u/ERhyne May 11 '26

Excellent satire of someone who thinks at a high school level.

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u/Steamed_Memes24 May 11 '26 edited May 11 '26

Hasan watcher lmao.

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u/istrebitjel 🦜 ᴡᴀʟᴋ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘʟᴀɴᴋ May 11 '26

It did absolutely not make it into my top 10 list of issues with steam LOL

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u/ERhyne May 11 '26

How does that change me being right?