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    10 months ago

    every company has shareholders, including larian studios

    you can’t set up a company without specifying shareholders

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      No they don’t, and you can totally set up a company without shareholders. LLCs have no shareholders for instance.

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        An LLC or any other corporate structure can have shareholders. It all depends on the structure laid out in the organizing documents. You may have meant private companies don’t have shareholders, but even that isn’t the case.

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        10 months ago

        I am pretty sure I read article somewhere which said tencent has shares in larian.

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        shareholders…owners… who cares about the vernacular. There’s always the ownership. An organization of any size is only as good as it’s current ownership.

        People grow old and eventually die. When ownership passes on from someone who isn’t in it for the money to someone who just wants money… even the greatest of organizations can and will fall. I just hope to christ Gabe Newell’s successor(s) are in line with his actions.

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          shareholders…owners… who cares about the vernacular.

          Turns out, quite a few people when those words are describing very different things.

          I just hope to christ Gabe Newell’s successor(s) are in line with his actions.

          This is how I know that you don’t know much at all. GabeN has changed valve from being a game developer making amazing things like Half Life and Team Fortress 2, to microtransactions and no games. A continuation of what Gabe is doing is pretty much in line with the rest of the industry, except NBA 2k4 would be the last one and it would have microtransaction DLC for the next 15 years.

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            I just hope to christ Gabe Newell’s successor(s) are in line with his actions.

            Sorry but I agree with the guy on this. It’s 2024, idgaf about valve IP anymore, they can ruin their games with microtransactions and I honestly won’t care. I use Valve like you and the rest of the world use it: buying and managing a collection of games. And right now, Steam has good practices in that regard. I can get refunds if I play a game for a couple of hours and I don’t like it. I can access any of the games I bought, they haven’t gone Sony on me and restricted my purchases. They’ve proven themselves to be good guys in this and I too fear the day GabeN is replaced by some fuck who just wants to get a quick few million, so he shits all over us and our collections of games.

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              You’re simping for a shop. The PC Shop wars have managed to be even more pathetic than the console wars.

              I have Steam, Epic Games Store, GoG Galaxy, Battle.net, XBox, Ubisoft and EA’s thing installed and they all miraculously work since I’m on PC and it’s not a locked down consoles. I get to play games that aren’t on steam!

              Stop locking your PC down, it’s not a console.

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                Valve is the company responsible for unlocking my PC for gaming. Most games can now be played without using Windows and Valve is mostly responsible for that. Because most game developers do not care and would rather force you to use proprietary OS than let you use what you prefer.

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                  You’re still playing proprietary games on your FOSS OS. Furthermore, the vast majority of people don’t care.

                  If it matters to you personally, I get that. But linux gaming is personally DOA for me as it still doesn’t support my simracing hardware.

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                  That’s only a recent thing and because it benefits them and their handheld device. They introduced online DRM and you are sucking it up.

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                    I have not looked it up but I do recall proton being a thing way before the steam console was.

                    Okay I looked it up before posting. The deck was released in 2022 and the initial release of proton was on 2018. Steam has had native clients for Linux and native Linux support for dota for ages too.

                    It’s true that their recent big push is because of the handheld but it’s also true that they have been pushing for gaming on Linux since way before.

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                What are you even talking about? I have all of those installed as well, and a few others on top. I’m incredibly wary of any of them though - I don’t know if GoG will be around in 10 years, I don’t trust epic as far as I can throw them, I don’t want to support ubisoft and EA, and Blizzard has made so many questionable choices that I’m at the point where I don’t want to support them AND I don’t believe they can make good games anymore.

                It’s about trust. I trust valve to allow me access to my games more than I trust the others. Doesn’t mean I don’t have the others, where did I say that?

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            Valve are major players in Linux being a viable option for gaming and actively fighting the Microsoft monopoly for PC gaming. Not in line with other players in the industry.

            They are actively developing proton as well as their own controller support for any games within their platform.

            What is the rest of the industry doing in line with this?

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            I played Dota 2 from its first beta release, and many years after. Eventually stopped about 2 years ago. In that time I put 4 digit sum into that game, and received nothing that would give me any gameplay advantage. I did it to support the game, that also worked on Linux.

            I understand that MTX are not ideal, but there are very different approaches to them. And at least in Dota 2, I can and did support it.

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          They are completely different business operations. Please stop.