Valve support has historically been pretty awesome. They even replaced an index controller nearly a year out of warranty. Granted their controllers have a shit switch and they break after a few hundred hours, but good on support for being bros.
I really like how valve operates for the most part but I am a little worried about what happens when leadership inevitably changes. They are such a dominant force that I don’t think people realize how nasty it could get if they turned on consumers.
That’s basically all corporate entities. They’re not beholden to the workers, the consumers, or the general public and instead answer to people generally trying to milk everything as hard as possible.
Not gonna defend corporations here, but valve isnt public. They are privately owned by the bosses and employees, valve has one of the lowest turnover rates in the industry. It is quite difficult to get a job there for that reason. So they are actually quite beholden to their workers.
Valve wouldn’t exist at it is if it was public and might not exist as it is if it wasn’t for Newell (and I say that as a person that’s very critical of Valve, they’re still very far from how bad they could be considering their position)
This is such a terrible policy and valve is smart to refund and farm the PR from Sony’s blunder lol
Valve support has historically been pretty awesome. They even replaced an index controller nearly a year out of warranty. Granted their controllers have a shit switch and they break after a few hundred hours, but good on support for being bros.
I really like how valve operates for the most part but I am a little worried about what happens when leadership inevitably changes. They are such a dominant force that I don’t think people realize how nasty it could get if they turned on consumers.
That’s basically all corporate entities. They’re not beholden to the workers, the consumers, or the general public and instead answer to people generally trying to milk everything as hard as possible.
Not gonna defend corporations here, but valve isnt public. They are privately owned by the bosses and employees, valve has one of the lowest turnover rates in the industry. It is quite difficult to get a job there for that reason. So they are actually quite beholden to their workers.
Indeed but Valve is an exception to the rule which otherwise applies to 99% of corporations.
I don’t think you realize how many corporations there are. Pretty much every business in America has some sort of incorporation.
All public corporations, private ones can be run by a benevolent leader.
At least until the leader gets corrupted by the power if there is enough of it. Then they become not so benevolent
Hence the use of the word “can” and not “are”
Valve wouldn’t exist at it is if it was public and might not exist as it is if it wasn’t for Newell (and I say that as a person that’s very critical of Valve, they’re still very far from how bad they could be considering their position)
Gaben has ensures that he has 51% of the company so he can veto anything including a leadership change. He would need to sell or die.
My concern
That is why Gaben must be protected at all costs.
What if we simply extended steam warranty and support to Gabe’s brain
Head jar like in Futurama it is.