Yeah, no. Valve has all but ensured their continuing relevance with the Steam Deck alone. Coupled with their consumer-focused policies (like forcing companies to disclose kernel-level anti-cheat), they’re not going anywhere.
This is just a Mac fanboi who’s salty that Mac support is poor, even though it’s Apple that has made their walled garden hard to work with.
I do worry a little about future antitrust actions, because while I generally like Valve as they are, Gabe won’t be around forever. They have a giant influence in the market, and they don’t even have to try (they were one of the first, so it makes sense they’d have the most market share); it could be that the company I generally like starts actively being anticompetitive or starts donating to Nazis or something.
But that is a problem for a future time, and there’s no denying that Valve has propelled Linux gaming into mainstream relevance. No matter what happens, I’ll always be grateful for that.
Yeah, no. Valve has all but ensured their continuing relevance with the Steam Deck alone. Coupled with their consumer-focused policies (like forcing companies to disclose kernel-level anti-cheat), they’re not going anywhere.
This is just a Mac fanboi who’s salty that Mac support is poor, even though it’s Apple that has made their walled garden hard to work with.
I do worry a little about future antitrust actions, because while I generally like Valve as they are, Gabe won’t be around forever. They have a giant influence in the market, and they don’t even have to try (they were one of the first, so it makes sense they’d have the most market share); it could be that the company I generally like starts actively being anticompetitive or starts donating to Nazis or something.
But that is a problem for a future time, and there’s no denying that Valve has propelled Linux gaming into mainstream relevance. No matter what happens, I’ll always be grateful for that.