I vaguely recall hearing that his son had no interest in running the company but that was also years ago. Hopefully whoever is set to take over when he goes shares his exact same views on keeping the company private.
I think if he really wants that plan to shake out he needs to transition ownership while he’s alive. Just dumping it on them with no discussion, no cultural adjustment and no preparation time will cause a lot of problems.
And this is why we shouldn’t rely on steam to be the one and only saviour. GoG and pirating is needed so we can make sure we can enjoy our games in the future.
Steam is a last bastion of integrity. Given the present timeline, it will probably be bought out by EA.
Gabe has stated several times that as long as he is running things he will never go public and let it get ruined like that.
Once he’s gone though I suspect steam will sell for 18 quintillion dollars to Microsoft or something.
It’ll probably go to shit immediately afterwards.
Really hoping (He probably does) he has a succession plan in place to prevent that when he’s gone
I vaguely recall hearing that his son had no interest in running the company but that was also years ago. Hopefully whoever is set to take over when he goes shares his exact same views on keeping the company private.
Only time will tell.
He should give it to the employees collectively.
I think if he really wants that plan to shake out he needs to transition ownership while he’s alive. Just dumping it on them with no discussion, no cultural adjustment and no preparation time will cause a lot of problems.
And this is why we shouldn’t rely on steam to be the one and only saviour. GoG and pirating is needed so we can make sure we can enjoy our games in the future.
The problem with gog, is that it’s owned by CD project red…and they are publicly traded