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While Chism may be a worthless leech, he isn’t completely wrong. Valve’s ownership of Steam does put it in a privileged position, which could be abused in a lot of anti-competitive ways. The fact that it isn’t doing that is really only because GabeN isn’t the same type of leech which Chism is. He’s what a lot of people seem to want, a benevolent dictator. That said, when he finally kicks the bucket, or gets tired and sells the company, the future direction of Steam would be an open question. There may be a very good argument for Valve to be put under the microscope of the FTC for possible anti-trust breakup.
I agree but steam might as well be at the back of list for breaking up monopolies. Microsoft should be one of the first but we know that isn’t going to happen so there isn’t much of a point of letting Microsoft do whatever and going after steam it’s main competition in the gaming space.
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While Chism may be a worthless leech, he isn’t completely wrong. Valve’s ownership of Steam does put it in a privileged position, which could be abused in a lot of anti-competitive ways. The fact that it isn’t doing that is really only because GabeN isn’t the same type of leech which Chism is. He’s what a lot of people seem to want, a benevolent dictator. That said, when he finally kicks the bucket, or gets tired and sells the company, the future direction of Steam would be an open question. There may be a very good argument for Valve to be put under the microscope of the FTC for possible anti-trust breakup.
I agree but steam might as well be at the back of list for breaking up monopolies. Microsoft should be one of the first but we know that isn’t going to happen so there isn’t much of a point of letting Microsoft do whatever and going after steam it’s main competition in the gaming space.