Comment by idiotsecant
1 day ago
I feel like every large public corporation inevitably turns into a rent seeking parasite. How do we build a system that has more calves and fewer blizzards? How do we incentivize that?
1 day ago
I feel like every large public corporation inevitably turns into a rent seeking parasite. How do we build a system that has more calves and fewer blizzards? How do we incentivize that?
More calves less cylcles!
You gotta give capitalist first principles and ideals and policies the boot. When you can use money to buy anything and earn money without practical limits, gaining access to more and more capital at any and all costs, even at the cost of everybody else's life and freedom and rights, is the natural result.
Valve is very much a capitalist company though. Gabe Newell is a billionaire, he owns six yachts, and Valve practically invented the concept of the loot box. So if the question is "how do we get more Valves and fewer Blizzards," it doesn't seem clear to me how giving capitalism the boot helps.
And what about when Gabe is gone? Because he is certainly the exception and not the standard for ultra wealthy capitalists.
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Honestly I'm not sure, but I suspect it's because for Gabe, Valve is his iterated prisoners dilemma
He's got to take care of it or no more yachts
Though part of it just might be helpful knows and respects hit market, at least well enough to understand them, I vaguely recall he left Microsoft to start a game company after seeing how much people fell head over heels with games and thinking there was value there
Valve is literally the capitalist utopia, they have pretty much unlimited money for their size and can spend it on anything they want.
That's why you'd never see a company like Valve in a capitalist system... wait...
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Stop buying/playing AAA games.
Support indie devs, and indie publishers, with your money.
And don't forget open source games. Before going for the indies, I'd suggest downloading and winning all the available major open source roguelikes. And after that, start creating mods/patches for those. Once you're done with that - and not too old of age - maybe think about spending some money on games again.
If this is rent-seeking, it presumably makes them less money than being thoughtful and well-liked would.
No more billionaires.
Gabe Newell is literally a billionaire.
And Buzz Aldrin was an alcoholic, doesn't mean preventing alcoholism is bad for society.
This whole thread is pointing out Valve is the _exception_.