Thread 720006407

What happens to Steam when he dies?

It'll turn to vapor

It condenses.

Sold to Microsoft

Company goes public.
Gets bought out by the now disney-activision-blizzard-ea-micorsoft conglomerate.

>>720006407 (OP)
good ending: his son does the bear mininum to keep it rolling as a passive income
bad ending: valve employees starts owning it and then sells it which trickles into some other mega corpos possession

>>720006407 (OP)
half life 3 gets released

you will need to pay 19.99 just to access your library
downloads will be subject to a monthly stipend unless an additional $5 premium is paid
the community features will be instantly removed as useless bloat
and the store will have a mandatory 3 break before it even starts to load which will also be painfully slow for free users
also ads ads ads

>>720006407 (OP)
Didn't you read the terms of service? The plan is all of us Steam users are going to castrate ourselves, eat apple pie, and then commit mass suicide. I thought this was made clear when we signed up?

>>720006407 (OP)
It keeps printing money for his son, I guess.

>>720006407 (OP)
Scary thought.

>>720007078
Not for me I used gog :D

>>720006407 (OP)
His son either follow in its path or he sells and it goes public and everything turns to shit since there's no physical alternative

depends on what the company of the only game i play does with online features

>>720006407 (OP)
It'll be over

>>720006407 (OP)
It falls back to Earth as rain. Nature is beautiful.

>>720006407 (OP)
gets raped by private equity

His son tries to take a more active role than Gaben did, makes the company public because some kike lawyer tells him its the best option, Steam becomes heavily monetized

>>720006407 (OP)
Hopefully collapses over time causing a second pc dark age that kills pc gayming off for good

>>720006407 (OP)
Not videogames. Don't post rapist.

it's actually insane that if steam was ever sold publicly we will see in real time investors justifying monetizing basic features because of muh services that were never a problem to host before.

>>720006407 (OP)
servers crash because everyone simultaneously downloads everything to backup their vidya files in panic

>>720006407 (OP)
Subscription model

nothing
he's completely divorced from current steam operations other than taking the profits

>>720009908
Who hurt you have sex

He takes it with him to Valhalla on his super yacht fleet

>>720006407 (OP)
Someone will take over, immediately make it a public company and we'll have a worse destruction of a platform than even Elon did to Twitter

Honestly the worst part about /v/ being flooded with retarded jeets is that we have dozens of this thread where they fantasize about doing the needful and scamming every user on Steam for infinite mone.

I sincerely believe that once Gaben dies, Gaming will become far worse than it ever has been.
I am just very grateful to have my consoles be available and to have plenty of games.
I would assume PCfags would have to download a lot of shit

>>720006407 (OP)
Robin takes over.

Why is that girl doing that with her eyebrows?

>>720006407 (OP)
I'll just assume the worst and say that it'll be enshittified just like everything else.

>>720006407 (OP)
looking sharty transsexual eggy

>>720006865
God what a fucking nightmare scenario

Does he have a wife's son?

>>720006407 (OP)
I don't know.

He has two brothers working at Valve, plus he has a son.
All they need to do is nothing, like Gaben.

>>720006407 (OP)
tf2 will implode on itself

>>720006407 (OP)
i dont know

>>720006407 (OP)
Hasn't he all but in name retired?

>>720006407 (OP)
He reincarnates into the image on the right and we enter the "sassy loli Gaben" era of Steam.

>>720006707
this

>>720006407 (OP)
>implying gaben isn't working on uploading his mind to become the immortal robotic cyber-god of vidya-games
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVu-96J6_I0

>>720006407 (OP)
Nothing, he's already retired, Xbot, but you can keep dreaming about Microsoft buying up Valve and Nintendo while they gut their gaming sector to the ground.

>>720006407 (OP)
pirate warfare

>>720006918
Does he have grandkids? a grandchild might be more interested in keeping steam going well than his son is

>>720015086
it's not about his role it's about what happens when he dies

I don't think you'll loose your steam accounts or games. depends on who would be in charge

>>720015473
I can’t wait for steam cloud saves to be tied to the windows update service.

>>720006407 (OP)
Gabe will live forever, he will be the first immortal human.

I don't really know anything about his son, does he hate video games or something? Did he rebel against his dad and buy a Switch?

>>720006407 (OP)
team fortress 2 skins get added to fortnite

>>720006407 (OP)
he hides it in one piece

>>720015618
>GabenNet ruling over Steam from a deep sea server network, sailing the seas on nuclear-enabled yachts

>>720006407 (OP)
His consciousness gets transferred to Gabe.ai

>>720015618
I would unironically force Gaben into the golden throne and imprison him for eternity so he can keep steam alive

V - video games

>>720006407 (OP)
It’s fucking Valve. Do you honestly think that they’ve never thought about this and never made a contingency plan?

>>720014576
Sounds like a power vacuum waiting to happen honestly. All some people need to do is to whisper in ears, appeal to egos/ target insecurities, or promise even more money by making the company public.
Gabe's will is ironclad, but you can't really say the same about his family.

>>720018828
It’s fucking Valve. Do you honestly think that they’ve thought about this and actually made a contingency plan?

>>720006407 (OP)
30% of nearly every PC game sale, not to mention IPs like Half-Life, and the shitton of cash they make from Dota and CS cosmetics. So explain to me how Activision Blizzard was sold for around 60B but Valve is "valued" at like 20B or something like that.

>>720020396
Because value is made up.

>>720020396
Blizzard, King, Call of Duty, being on more than PC

>>720006407 (OP)
>Steam goes public and is worth hundreds of billions overnight and will reach a trillion or more a few months later
>companies like Blackrock, Google, Apple, Microsoft etc buy shares left and right
>Steam will change itself to appeal to the shareholders

If you think things are bad now it you're in for a nightmare ride
>time to pay 4.99 eurodollars to access your library, what are you gonna do about it ? you won't leave because you have hundreds/thousands of games here
>>720014576
only some slave from a Megacorporation need to show up with 40-50 billions and they will bend the knee

>>720006407 (OP)
her name?

>>720006407 (OP)
GabenAI, a GPT trained on every decision Gabe has made and text he has written will take over.
Other founding members reserve a power of veto to finetune the AI, but they will eventually be digitized to SteamAI. Paving the way to become the first AI run business

No one knows which is why you should get stuff from GOG if it's on there instead of on Steam.
Everyone having their games tied to Steam is making a huge mistake, every studio, publisher and competitor wants to take part of Steam. There's 100% corporate sabotage and spying going on trying to get someone who'd go public or partner with someone else as CEO when he's dead.

Frankly it's strange that Valve was not subverted by US alphabet agencies like Microsoft, Sony, Blizzard, etc

>>720006407 (OP)
>hero worshipping a multi billionaire
Lmao fucking pathetic runt.

>>720023473
It's not because Steam did DRM before everyone else.
When PC games was played with discs and you could do whatever you wanted with then, Steam brought console proprietary like DRM to the PC market first. Steam had a monopoly because they was the first scumbags to bring it to PC, it was bound to happen and being first on something that's 100% a natural evolution guarantees never needing to go public.

>>720006407 (OP)
he will never die

>>720023473
It's a lot harder to subvert a private company.

>>720006407 (OP)
Honestly at some point in the next ten years I think some behind-the-scenes project gets unveiled and they announce they beat Elon to his goal of an everything app

Steam is awfully close to being the internet's app store

Hopefully he's made sure that the people under him who will take it over when that happens share his vision so nothing changes

>>720006407 (OP)
It will be extremely painful

>>720006986
Imagine joining a cult run by this guy.

>>720024560
You're a big guy...
...for Gabe.

>>720014265
Do pirate steam clients still exist?

>>720006407 (OP)
I inherit it and i rollback to only win7 supported steam and make all the zoomies and AAA sloppers seethe eternally

>Valve said they were rereleasing raising the bar this year
>9 months in and complete radio silence

>>720020396
Valve has no speculative value since its private, it only has a real value. The second that cunt gets on a stock exchange is when it gets to the hundreds of billions, but its current market share and practices are essentially priceless

>>720028534
It contains episode 3 stuff so they're waiting until they release HL3 later this year so the book doesn't spoil anything.

>>720006407 (OP)
It'll probably be fine, but buy from GOG too just in case!

>>720015618
>skynet tries to take over
>gabenet comes online and defeats it

>>720006407 (OP)
Shut it down in his honor

>>720023347
>GabenAI, a GPT trained on every decision Gabe has made and text he has written will take over.
The only answer that makes sense. We'll Cave-Johnson Gabe and force him to keep Steam running smoothly to the end of mankind.

don't care

GOG exists

Steam killed the PC platform

In a word? Fucked.
Not "cooked" just fucked.

>>720006407 (OP)
Monthly subscription to use Steam and play your games before his corpse even turns cold

>>720029564
>>720030637
What about Butlerian Jihad scenarios?

>>720030667
Pomiędzy niemieckimi finansistami, którzy forsują socjalistyczne programy, a CDPR, które straciło swoich najlepszych programistów, którzy założyli studio finansowane przez chińskich inwestorów. Nie mogę powiedzieć, że w dłuższej perspektywie mogę ufać GOG ani Steam. Prowadzą tę samą działalność.

>>720006407 (OP)
Why is everyone such a Valve dicksucker? You don't even own your games on Steam. They literally made PC gaming worse by forcing you to use Steam when Half Life 2 released.

>>720030667
Steam is the only reason it's relevant.

>>720030667
>Steam saved the PC platform
FTFY

Without Steam you'd be installing games with three dvds and if one of them got scratched, they'd be garbage.

Sales? What sales? You want to play Tribes: Vengeance? Go on ebay and buy a physical copy for $300.

>>720020726
However gazillions of green pesos they throw at them won’t matter.
You can have wealth but still get gate kept from doing anything interesting with it if ‘the clique’ don’t like you (see: elon)
Only point of money is to buy an expensive yacht or whatever to lifestyle-maxx.
But gaben already did that so whoever inherits his stock inherits his yachts too.

They have pretty much nothing to offer gabe’s kids but false promises of power and influence they will never truly be in control of.

>>720031171
You can download all your steam games to an offline computer if you're paranoid about that

>>720020396
>value
*Proximity to the NYFED watering hole.

>>720031171
You don't own your games anywhere dumb fuck.

>>720006407 (OP)
ChatGPT answer. Cropped out part is just context to state laws and whatnot.

>>720031782
Exactly. Whether it’s Steam, GOG, or Epic-you’re just getting a license, not ownership. The moment any of them pull a Zaslav and decide to nuke half their catalog, your precious "physical" collection of digital files means jack.
Only actual ownership is on a burned DVD-R hidden in your sock drawer with a No-CD crack.

>>720031782
I owned my games on a disc but you are too young to remember that, dipshit.

>>720015736
why? grandchild is usually when the business goes to shit

>>720006407 (OP)
embedded cp in this picture