Valve makes tonnes of money from loot boxes or whatever they’re called. Basically a form of gambling.

It just so happens that’s great way of making a shit load of money is making it super easy for people to buy from you. Valves big competitive advantage is just… not fucking that up.

And as someone else said, Gabe doesn’t have to be a billionaire. He could use his phenomenal wealth to build hospitals and help the poor, rather than building his own little private navy.

Valve is doing a lot that will make people like them, but they’re still a huge corporation, and Gabe is still a billionaire.