“Never interrupt your *enemy* when he is *making* a *mistake”*.
Strategy is called “sit down and watch”
LegitimateTap1643
It’s called “I don’t need to do shit, they just keep doing it to themselves” while they laugh in a corner strategy.
Mc-MeepMeep
It’s called “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”
OokamiKurogane
If you are making good money, don’t try to make more money by changing things up. But valve also never went public because most publicly traded companies are now doomed to fail because of “fiduciary duties to investors” which means they (the majority shareholders) do everything to siphon as much money as quickly as possible from any source, leave the shriveled husk and move on to the next. And our legal system supports this. So if you want a company to have long term survivability, don’t go public.
Jhawk163
I get what you’re saying, but the reality is Valve is continuing to thrive and beat out its competition through experience. Steam didn’t just exist in its current form, it started off quite rocky, many people hated they had to use it for Counter Strike. They also have had their own fair share of utter failures (ie paid mods) but learnt from their mistakes. It also helps that Valve is a private company, there is no board of investors, there is just Gabe (Yes I know there is almost certainly a team of industry analysts and a leadership board, but it’s not the same) they have to please, they can decide to just not do something, or they can decide to take a risk and do something that is niche or no-one else is really doing (Look at the Steam Deck, there are handheld PCs that came before, but it was a niche until the Steam Deck)
Broote
Competence
NikolayGeorgiev_BG
He was the first to do it, and he hasn’t fucked it up. No other platform will ever compete
kingwhocares
Steam benefits from “first mover advantage”. If anything, Steam has gone downhill.
KingHauler
It’s called not being a publicly traded company.
EmperorFaiz
Being a private company is a big advantage instead of being controlled by the borderline parasitic shareholders.
headunplugged
When you do things right, it’s like you’ve done nothing at all
PreferenceRight3329
Epic launcher is so bad sometimes i dont want to open it
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“Never interrupt your *enemy* when he is *making* a *mistake”*.
Strategy is called “sit down and watch”
It’s called “I don’t need to do shit, they just keep doing it to themselves” while they laugh in a corner strategy.
It’s called “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”
If you are making good money, don’t try to make more money by changing things up. But valve also never went public because most publicly traded companies are now doomed to fail because of “fiduciary duties to investors” which means they (the majority shareholders) do everything to siphon as much money as quickly as possible from any source, leave the shriveled husk and move on to the next. And our legal system supports this. So if you want a company to have long term survivability, don’t go public.
I get what you’re saying, but the reality is Valve is continuing to thrive and beat out its competition through experience. Steam didn’t just exist in its current form, it started off quite rocky, many people hated they had to use it for Counter Strike. They also have had their own fair share of utter failures (ie paid mods) but learnt from their mistakes. It also helps that Valve is a private company, there is no board of investors, there is just Gabe (Yes I know there is almost certainly a team of industry analysts and a leadership board, but it’s not the same) they have to please, they can decide to just not do something, or they can decide to take a risk and do something that is niche or no-one else is really doing (Look at the Steam Deck, there are handheld PCs that came before, but it was a niche until the Steam Deck)
Competence
He was the first to do it, and he hasn’t fucked it up. No other platform will ever compete
Steam benefits from “first mover advantage”. If anything, Steam has gone downhill.
It’s called not being a publicly traded company.
Being a private company is a big advantage instead of being controlled by the borderline parasitic shareholders.
When you do things right, it’s like you’ve done nothing at all
Epic launcher is so bad sometimes i dont want to open it