DeepEnigma
Gold Member
I think it's more like "will" happen with Steam too. People don't realize how fragile that whole ecosystem is. Valve's games held the whole thing together, they don't make real games anymore, everyone else is getting into the digital store business, the market's going to be split 20 ways. Valve could find themselves fucked within the course of a couple of years, and I don't care what anyone says, that company is obviously a complete fucking mess organizationally. Any company that can't even complete a game series that it starts has serious fucking problems. They also have no real contingency plans. After Gabe kicks the bucket, the company's basically going to implode.
If you really think about it, you don't want a private company to run something like Steam. It's just not reliable enough. I WANT a big corporation with succession plans that can survive multiple generations of staff for a service like that. I don't want it all resting one one obese dude pushing 60.
Agreed. Valve Trojan Horsed Steam with Half Life 2, and now that the running joke is no HL3, there is nothing stopping what you just said. Their bubble will burst.