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This is the "let them fail" method. Valve has a solid product in steam. They have no need to suck up to investors, they're making money hand over fist with steam.

Running a good marketplace is amazing income; as long as gaben still runs it, there's no reason to screw that up. The focus of valve is on Steam as a marketplace; and they're reaping the rewards of that decision. It's why so few games have been made by valve. The reasoning is clear if you're paying attention for them.

Valve started as a software company that makes games, but after steam was created, which initially was just to distribute their own games - little more than a digital purchase and delivery platform for their software, and they opened that up to allow other publishers to have their games purchased and distributed through Valve's system, the writing was on the wall.

I miss the games that Valve used to make, and as far as I'm concerned they were some of the best games available, and in many ways, they still are. I'd like to see more from them, but I understand why it's not their priority. At the same time, I appreciate that they are still working on games, as evidenced by Alyx, which was an excellent experience. They still make excellent games. I look forward to anything they decide to release in the future, but I know better than to ask about it. Heh.

I've more or less been a valve/steam fanboy since the orange box. Not in the way that I am going to attack someone for not liking it, or not using it. I personally enjoy it, but what others do is not my concern. I hope that they continue to create amazing games and that enshittification is put off as long as possible.

They're moving slowly and carefully.