Valve boss Gabe Newell reveals daily routine in bizarre new interview: "I get up, I work, I go scuba-diving, then work some more"
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Blatantly untrue, as update visibility rounds are one of several marketing tools Steam gives you that can put your game on the front page for free, regardless of popularity.
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Kitfox Games has published a guide (one among many you can find on the internet) on how to successfully market a game with no advertising budget. While their existing audience definitely helped, and as they mention, it takes a significant amount of time and effort, they do not spend actual money on sponsorships or advertising. This would not be a viable strategy on any other storefront, save maybe Epic, though Epic still gives fewer tools than Steam.
It's not untrue. Most games never get that exposure. You have to be popular within a certain time frame to get any chance at showing up. You can try to game it, sure, but most will fail to achieve that
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And the market is only open from 9:30-4.
Not that steam is even publicly traded.There are alternative markets that trade pretty much 24/7
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From what little I know about Gabe, it’s seems he doesn’t want to be the center of attention at valve. He wants Steam to the center of attention. It’s a smart play as we are seeing more and more people turning on techbros and their cult leader status’.
Yeah, I'm busy with developing a game. I don't want to be popular or the centre of attention should my game be succesful. I just a lot of people to play and enjoy my game. I can totally get that.
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It's not untrue. Most games never get that exposure. You have to be popular within a certain time frame to get any chance at showing up. You can try to game it, sure, but most will fail to achieve that
I'm not saying it isn't insanely hard (actually I mentioned that fact twice), I'm just trying to point out that Steam gives developers more tools for visibility than any storefront that exists, with most storefronts giving no tools whatsoever. Any game with no marketing budget selling enough to support a multiple-person development team, when they have to compete directly with AAA games, is impressive for both the developer and the platform.
If you want to advocate for improvements and change, you can't just ignore the positive things that already exist.
~Also you clearly didn't read the page about the update visibility rounds, because those have nothing to do with popularity and are completely randomized regarding who among the recently-updated games gets a spot on the front page. In fact, your game gets rotated off that spot once you've gotten 1 million impressions.~
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Gabe Newell is better than many others, but this is true, the best man on Earth will become an absolute pissbag given power for continuous enough period of time to realize that.
And the best man on Earth is probably some volunteer medic in some African warzone, not a computer programmer and a tech businessman.
Jacinda Adern as New Zealand PM seemed to be sort of that type
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Helps to keep a healthy routine.
Nothing worse than an unstructured day where you mentally waste away.I still manage to do that with a job
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valve and steam are not the friendly aw shucks corporation they’ve been whitewashed into.
And the goalposts go flying.
Who the fuck cares if valve is cute and cuddly? Who even wants that in a marketplace other than morons who think they can take advantage of someone else's kindness?
Valve is a company, their job is to make money for the people who own it.
- You the customer want the most out of your transaction with them, they know it make it a priority.
- They understand that devs working there making fucktons of money is good because they'll stay and be motivated to work, so they are selective on who they hire and then pay them an insane amount.
- They want to avoid microsoft cutting their nuts off so they pushed linux as a viable alternative.
- They want devs to sell on their platform so they refined a business deal that works well enough that they get several new games on their storefront a day and still make back their operating costs, despite servers that can literally be used to benchmark several gigabit download connections.
- They are the most economically effective company in the world and they achieved it by not enshittifying their platform and not going public.
Selflessness would literally be a downgrade, I want Valve to have every damn cent they earned.
They're not the only game in town, they are the best game in town, and at every turn they make an effort not to become a monopoly, either, because they know the good will of their customer base is more important than attempts at short term spikes in company revenue, which is only possible because they are a privately held company.
So yeah, are they cuddly and nice? No, fuck no, but they are extremely effective while providing a service that puts every other provider in their field to shame, so why the fuck would I want them to change?
How’s the boot taste?
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Yeah, I'm busy with developing a game. I don't want to be popular or the centre of attention should my game be succesful. I just a lot of people to play and enjoy my game. I can totally get that.
Honestly, I don’t game much but there a few upcoming games I’m really excited about and only one of them will actually cost money. I’m waiting for Megaman X Corrupted and Billie Bust Up. Both indie, both better. There isn’t really anything worth getting from big companies anymore.
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How’s the boot taste?
How's the bile, you seething commie clown?
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How's the bile, you seething commie clown?
Is that supposed to be an insult? I love communism and circus performers, they both bring joy to the masses
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This dude is 100% correct and I have no idea why people are downvoting him. Sales make people more likely to buy a product due to being limited. Limited time sales work better than lowering prices in the long term.
It's why indie games do stuff like release their new games with time-limited 10% off discounts.
Ah yes, paying less is bad. Viva capitalism. /s
Are you daft or dumb? Pick one.
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There are alternative markets that trade pretty much 24/7
Which each have their own groupings of companies traded. Foreign stock markets only matter if you're a trading firm.
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I hope that he decides to work on a neutral payment processing system. Cooperating with the EU's Linux initiatives, he can probably put quite a bit of weight onto the scale, making a digital Euro into a thing.
What a coup if they solve the problem by building their own payment processor company
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The EU now has a digital wallet payment system in a trail run
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/digital_euro/html/index.en.html
Would be neat if they integrate it
So much for cash anonymity. Unless a payment system is completely anonymous whilst supporting secure transactions, it's a non-starter. Unfortunately the EU does not appear to be able to tolerate privacy for its citizens, hence constant attempts to undermine and curtail any privacy/anonymity-first technologies or concepts.
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Not sure exactly what you're trying to say here but I guarantee 0% of that wealth came from his investments in Linux support. Their investment in Linux is mostly a way of keeping MS in check, as in "if you try to fuck us the way Apple does with iOS, your customers will leave Windows because they'd rather have something where they can play their giant library of existing games".
No, it's not a way to keep anything in check. It's a way to not pay license fees to Microsoft.
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No, it's not a way to keep anything in check. It's a way to not pay license fees to Microsoft.
Same thing.
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If he ran a restaurant instead, I'd say he's the irl Dave the diver
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Is that supposed to be an insult? I love communism and circus performers, they both bring joy to the masses
I love communism
And I'm sure you live on one of the many successful communist countries in the world today.
Oh, wait.
and circus performers
Well at least you have high self esteem.
they both bring joy to the masses
The masses*
* the portion of them that is not in a gulag, is not disappeared, doesn't have its rights curtailed due to social credit decline for disagreeing with the regime, wasn't purposefully starved to death during the holodomor, and so forth.
And don't get me started on the evils of the circus performers who propagandise for them from the comfort of their liberal democracies.
There is a reason communism is treated with equal acrimony to nazism in every former soviet satellite state, m8.
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I mean facebook is run by nazis, you got what you paid for on that end.
You call them Nazis yet defend Israel...
