They are the only monopolist selling completely open devices and heavily investing into open source software. As it stands now the console, VR and phone market is dominated by locked down devices that depend on the benevolence of their manufacturers.
If they made a phone that was as open as the Steam Deck and then went power hungry and wanted to use their position to fuck everyone up you could still put another OS on the phone and use it without a single piece of Valve influence.
I want them to make more hardware because they can not dictate how I use it.
My Steam Deck is not running SteamOS but OpenSUSE. I am mainly playing games from other stores. This would not be possible with an Xbox, PlayStation or Switch.
So yes, I can very much live with that kind of monopoly in the hardware space. And when they enshittify like every big corporations does I won’t cry but enjoy my awesome devices that will remain usable forever.
Yet they also are the ones who pushed unregulated gambling and the whole skins economy
They’re also the ones that are accused of abusing they monopolist position regarding store prices (if you sell on Steam, you can’t sell cheaper elsewhere)
By all means, their actions have good consequences, but don’t be fooled.
They are the only monopolist selling completely open devices and heavily investing into open source software. As it stands now the console, VR and phone market is dominated by locked down devices that depend on the benevolence of their manufacturers.
If they made a phone that was as open as the Steam Deck and then went power hungry and wanted to use their position to fuck everyone up you could still put another OS on the phone and use it without a single piece of Valve influence.
I want them to make more hardware because they can not dictate how I use it.
My Steam Deck is not running SteamOS but OpenSUSE. I am mainly playing games from other stores. This would not be possible with an Xbox, PlayStation or Switch.
So yes, I can very much live with that kind of monopoly in the hardware space. And when they enshittify like every big corporations does I won’t cry but enjoy my awesome devices that will remain usable forever.
Yet they also are the ones who pushed unregulated gambling and the whole skins economy
They’re also the ones that are accused of abusing they monopolist position regarding store prices (if you sell on Steam, you can’t sell cheaper elsewhere)
By all means, their actions have good consequences, but don’t be fooled.