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Gabe Newell is very rich
- Thread starter Turin Turambar
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Huevos de Oro
Member
Just like the rest of their measurement units.
Mr. Phellps
Member
It's no surprise. They profit more per employee than both Apple and Google.
It's both. Team Fortress 2.
Nintendo's Witch
Member
They sell digital hats
Subpar Scrub
Banned
Like skimming a percentage off $600 PUBG skirts lol
That's not how you stay rich.
they make a lot of money from people that buy cosmetic items in their games and these items are commonly refered to as "hats" because the first items you could buy in TF2 were hats IIRC.
Baron von Loathsome
Member
Nice, he can afford some better moderation for Steam.
There's no profit in it so Gabe won't bother.
Blam
Member
It's community moderated.
johancruijff
Banned
Poodlestrike
Banned
So... not moderated.
sixteen-bit
Member
No shit.
The point is that Valve has fooled their users into doing work that they should be doing themselves so why should they bother now?
I'm all for consumer rights but this is 100% your fault.
freshVeggie
Member
That's what happens when you read the signs of times ahead.
Roughly about 5.5 billion more than me. Roughly.
Roughly about 5.5 billion more than me. Roughly.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
So many knives.
Gabe is small potatoes compared to the folks in Forbes top 10, yeah.
Abilidebob
Member
And about one avocado toast a week.
didn't he go from $2.x billion to $4 billion in a year? people made a thread about how he skipped 3 even in that.
Yolo!
He may be in the pact with Warren Buffet and Bill Gates, giving away all of their billions on their passing to charity. Also, look up the dude who started the Duty Free stores you see in Airports, dude has given away basically every dollar he's ever made. Lives super frugal, and wants ZERO recognition for any of it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Feeney
Shifty
Member
lol if you think that will actually happen, they don't give a fuck about what happens in steam groups
Evil John Locke
Member
Would have been impressed at 55, 5.5 is chunp change
Phoenix RISING
Banned
Dat gaming journalism.
OT side: "DOWN WITH THE 1%!!!"
Gaming Side: "Gabe Newell is worth $5.5 billion? ALL HAIL THE GabeN!"
Sad Affleck
Member
That seems like a decent chunk of money.
NinjaMouse
Member
That's not your decision to make.
It certainly is when the riches he's amassed is on the backs of other people who've used their labor to produce the commodity his company sells. Why is Newell entitled to the profits of the labor of others? Shit, even on Steam itself, Valve is using the free labor of their customers to fix their platform, while fucking neo-nazi groups are out in the open.
No one deserves to be this rich while we have the worst economic inequality in history, while also exploiting the labor of others to become a billionaire
AlteredForms
Banned
Whilst Steam wasn't the first means of digital distribution, it's the one that's stuck around the longest. Primarily because of titles such as Garry's Mod, CounterStrike, Half-Life and so forth.
Shame there's no competition in the PC market, as GOG is the only service to challenge Steam.
Shame there's no competition in the PC market, as GOG is the only service to challenge Steam.
Z..
Member
Confirmation bias often makes gestures like these kind of empty, though. Charity mitigates the problem, it doesn't solve it... With this much pull you could actually have a chance at enacting actual change. Problem is, actual change would require them to believe in it. And, without fail, hubris will make sure that never happens since the fundamental wrongs are never actually adressed since they are not seen as problematic by the donors since they've and suceeded in part precisely because of these institutional wrongs.
Charity is a noble goal... with this kind of resources, though? It's a cop out that basically says you really have no personal interest in making the world a better place beyond a superficial "good samaritan" level.