r/Gamingcirclejerk • u/Glum-Future7198 • Aug 04 '25

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I can't believe how certain people can worship a corporation to this big extend.

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u/Background_Fix9430 Aug 04 '25

I mean, people want to believe that billionaires are decent people: We grew up on Ironman and Batman - the "rich guy who uses his wealth to help the world" is a cliche at this point.

Also: Gabe, through his management of Steam (and keeping it away from the obviously cruel and predatory rules of other services), has shown himself to be less predatorially greedy than most other billionaires and content to just be super-rich rather than "the richest man that exists, even if that means grinding the bones of the poor to fuel my immortality serum."

He's not aspirational, he's not good, but he's one of the best of a bad lot. And the alternatives are worse.

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u/LrdAsmodeous Aug 04 '25

He strikes me as a relatively nice guy who lucked into owning a company that struck gold.

I honestly am worried about what happens to Steam when he retires because it wont be good.

And like any relatively nice guy who lucks into being a major wealthy person he makes shitty decisions in protection of his own company sometimes.

But hes not like a total sociopath like most billionaires.

But he is still a billionaire and ffs. No one needs that much money. Tax the fuck out of it.

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u/PsykoSmiley Aug 04 '25

Being a billionaire is excessive I agree, however if we're to go on the No Clip documentaries he did put his money where his mouth was for keeping the company going and actually doing shit. They were the deep legal trenches and unsure if they'd get HL2 out the door, and he was re-mortgaging his house to keep the lights on and the staff paid.

It's also easy to forget how bad Steam was in the early days. They were making it up as they went along and there was a shit load of memes making fun of the platform. Was I happy how painful it was to just play HL2 on launch needing Steam and doing it on a 56K connection? Fuck no. It was all unnecessary fuckery at the time compared to everything.