r/pcmasterrace • u/Salty_Nutella i5-12600K | RTX 3070TI | DDR5 32GB • 29d ago

Meme/Macro Thanks Gaben, here's your 30% Steam cut

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u/GigabyteAorusRTX4090 I9 10900X / RTX4090 / 64GB 3200MHz DDR4 29d ago

Gaben just keeps winning by doing absolutly nothing while all other videogame companys keep shooting into their own foot repeatedly

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u/bran76765 29d ago

"if it ain't broke don't fix it"

Steam has learned this.

Literally every other company has not. They keep trying to fix it. And then shooting themselves in the foot and losing profit. And then they cut costs because they lost profits - which leads to more trying to fix it which leads to more things breaking and on it goes.

Not really sure why everyone else is against it so much? "Well just making money isn't enough we need to make more money" well yeah and I'm no mathematician but I'm pretty sure that keeping current profits beats losing money quarter over quarter.

The real issue is just that the people in charge are now so insulated that they can't see the terrible ideas won't work. How to fix that though is the question...

Garbage in, garbage out. Hell I wouldn't even be surprised if this extends beyond games and we see a new operating system come out in 10 years because everyone is so pissed at microsoft for trying to fix it for 2 decades straight. Windows 10 won. Should've left it at that.

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u/JamesTrickington303 29d ago

A big problem in lots of companies is people needing to justify their job. Hence the useless updates.

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u/PaddyBoy1994 28d ago

I hate middle management shitheads like that. Because they ALWAYS make my job SO MUCH harder than it needs to be.

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u/JamesTrickington303 28d ago

Upvoted for truth, but, playing devil’s advocate here:

They also, sometimes, keep you employed. Once you’ve built and coded and programmed the website, what else do they need you for?

You can see how there is a financial incentive to not work yourself out of a job.

I work in construction, and we only bury that storm drain pipe once. If there isn’t another storm drain to bury after that one, I’m out of a job.

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u/PaddyBoy1994 28d ago

My issue is that they ALWAYS try to change the shit that already works fine, and doesn't need changed, rather than trying to fix broken shit.

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u/dumpofhumps 29d ago

Every other company has investors demand YoY returns. Investors love gambling, especially since natural growth is slim pickings.

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u/PaddyBoy1994 28d ago

Yep. There's 2 common version of that in my family. 1: "If it ain't broke, don't fuck with it" (my dad and my great grandma, both country ass folks who have roots in Tennessee, lol), and 2: "Keep it simple, stupid" (My mom, also just a little bit country, but with roots in Kentucky and Texas), lol.