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Steam keeps on winning (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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From the opinion piece:

Last year, I pointed out how many big publishers came crawlin' back to Steam after trying their own things: EA, Activision, Microsoft. This year, for the first time ever, two Blizzard games released on Steam: Overwatch and Diablo 4.

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[–] [email protected] 142 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (17 children)

This genuinely doesn't get talked about enough. Steam is a private company and Gabe Newell seems to be the de facto "head" of the company, despite its famously "flat" management structure. There is no guarantee a new leader will have the same values or lead the same way. There is ripe opportunity for Steam to become a steaming pile of shit. I don't know about the exact ownership structure beyond Newell, but unless the employees are far more empowered through things like ownership stake in the company, new leadership could effectively destroy how things currently work at Valve to be replaced by any number of terrible business decisions.

Gabe is old as hell. It's coming.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Hopefully they have some sort of transition plan for who will take over when Gabe retires. As long as they hand the reigns over to someone with similar ideas and not some business type they could be fine given they are privately owned.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Has there been any news at all on who the potential successors are?

[–] nihth 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Read somewhere that his son who has a similar philosophy was going to take over

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

First time hearing about this. Hope it works out.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Because nepotism usually works out amazingly and never goes badly. /s

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I looked it up and apparently Gray Newell doesn't work at Valve, so it's actually unlikely that he's going to be the successor.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

So steam is a family owned company?

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