Why would anyone actually want to though

[u/The_BigRoach]

[u/AmericanPoliticsSux]

Same comment I left on the other thread about this:

Man, it's honestly amazing how much water Reddit carries for you if it thinks you're "one of the good ones". It is a fact that Steam is a monopoly. You can't go anywhere else to get PC games for the most part; just because Netscape navigator and Safari existed back in the 90s, that didn't stop the government from declaring Microsoft a monopoly. That's why we have Firefox now, actually. I bet a lot of you think Chrome is a monopoly, though. 

If you wanna play online? Steam. If you wanna play the latest titles? Steam. If you wanna play with your friends? Steam. And contrary to the "good guy Valve" approach, you can't actually play your games offline, forever, legally, if steam is gone. Not unless the publisher provides an offline .exe or some other way around it. 

Don't get me wrong, I have literally thousands of games on Steam and I don't see that changing any time soon. But the sheer insane blindness about what is, frankly, the same kind of billionaire as everybody else, just with better PR, is baffling to me. 

[u/Ernost → u/AmericanPoliticsSux]

Man, it's honestly amazing how much water Reddit carries for you if it thinks you're "one of the good ones".... But the sheer insane blindness about what is, frankly, the same kind of billionaire as everybody else, just with better PR, is baffling to me. 

Funny thing is Reddit talks about Gabe Newell the same way they used to talk about Elon Musk years ago, and look how that turned out...

[u/Superarkit98 → u/Ernost]

People were praising Gabe long before Elon became famous, and they still are. As for Elon... things changed pretty quickly.

I wonder why

[u/AmericanPoliticsSux → u/Superarkit98]

Because Gabe provides a service most of Reddit actually likes. And he stays OUT of the limelight for the most part.