It’s been known for quite a while now. Even reddit gets annoyed with the guy.
Comment on Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks agoSome people are starting to wake up to the fact that the guy is just another libertarian billionaire, he just happens to be in charge of a company that made a product people love enough to give them monopolistic powers.
chunes@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Rose@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
I even got to downvote that back then!
Rose@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
I’m not even sure if it’s love. When something is all you’ve known, you just view everything else as strange and inferior. When you have so many games and have had so many experiences on Steam, the cognitive dissonance of accepting that Valve is quite problematic could hard to bear. Knowing that everybody around you praises Steam, with many turning to rage and harassment when they see competitors like Epic, the fear of being ostracized and ending up in the same position as those competitors is also a strong factor at play.
errer@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
You’re not wrong, the downvoters are just sad because you are right. Just takes one personality shift from Gabe to turn him from beloved figurehead to shitty billionaire and being reminded of that sucks.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
“one personality shift”
That’s everyone dude. “Bernie Sanders is one personality shift away from being a Maga tech bro.”
errer@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Entirely correct. That’s why we shouldn’t put anyone on a pedestal.
Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com 4 weeks ago
He’s also one body shift away from being a giant dragon with adamantium scales…
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
They’re right next to each other on the monster table.
Eat the Meat!
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Sanders doesn’t have control over (probably) thousands of the games you “own”
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
If you just pay attention more than the average person you quickly realize that he’s already a shitty billionaire.
Steam underage gambling profits him directly.
He owns a yacht collection while his clients can’t afford to own the place they live in. How’s that for an environmental impact?
His reaction to George Floyd wasn’t that Valve should release a statement at he considered that problematic, instead he gave each employee 10k to spend however they felt like. Where I used to work we used to call that a “shut the fuck up”. Employees are complaining about something? Here’s 10k each for them to shut the fuck up. Hell, they could spend that money to finance far right groups if they wanted, Newell didn’t care!
Valve takes a 30% cut but Newell is a billionaire, which means they could afford to take a much smaller cut, he could have hundreds of millions instead and the devs could have more money in their pockets.
MajesticElevator@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
I always get shat on for saying they do unregulated gambling, including to minors
People be really defending Valve
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I think being on a tech community instead of the gaming ones helps
const_void@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
They defend Microsoft and Windows for the same reason. It’s their beloved gaming platform
wewbull@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
Pretty sure Musk has had a significant shift. Not saying he started out as a nice normal guy, but something cracked for sure.
toastmeister@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
We also spend dramatically more now as well and are on an unsustainable path according to the Fed.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I think despite the claims that Gabe is a Libertarian, first spread by some blogger named Yanis V(?), are floating around the internet: he rarely makes a political statement but did endorse Joe Biden over Trump lending to the idea that he is NOT some sort of anarcho-syndicalist Republican-lite.