I read part of this interview elsewhere and it quoted him as saying he enjoys hanging out with people on his boat. My first thought was that those people are paid to be on the boat.
All friends are transactional friends when you’re that wealthy, which should be depressing to them, but they carry on and fuck the hollow models and that’s that.
I hope that he decides to work on a neutral payment processing system. Cooperating with the EU’s Linux initiatives, he can probably put quite a bit of weight onto the scale, making a digital Euro into a thing.
The EU now has a digital wallet payment system in a trail run
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/digital_euro/html/index.en.html
Would be neat if they integrate it
he can probably put quite a bit of weight onto the scale
Was that a cheap shot? If so, I approve.
This man never does interviews. Then the one interview he does in the last 30 years is trash-tier editing of a vertical video of a laptop screen in a Zoom meeting from 20 feet away, that’s only uploaded as Shorts, by some guy who only has 4 total videos uploaded ever. WTF is up with that?
From what little I know about Gabe, it’s seems he doesn’t want to be the center of attention at valve. He wants Steam to the center of attention. It’s a smart play as we are seeing more and more people turning on techbros and their cult leader status’.
Yeah, I’m busy with developing a game. I don’t want to be popular or the centre of attention should my game be succesful. I just a lot of people to play and enjoy my game. I can totally get that.
Honestly, I don’t game much but there a few upcoming games I’m really excited about and only one of them will actually cost money. I’m waiting for Megaman X Corrupted and Billie Bust Up. Both indie, both better. There isn’t really anything worth getting from big companies anymore.
Ironic because Gabe appreciation is still kind of cult like.
I think that in itself is meant to be ironic too.
Also, people appreciate his lack of attention seeking and flashiness.
I think that in itself is meant to be ironic
Trump praise was initially ironic as well. There’s a old hilarious episode of John Oliver begging him to run for President because he thought it was just so ridiculous. These things have a way of getting out of hand.
Nah, I have had nothing but fantastic experiences with steam. Their support is knowledgeable, responsive, and has the power to actually help you. The index controllers are notorious for developing drift on the sticks and they RMAd mine several times no problem. The last one was a year out of warranty and they said that’s all I get lol, but that’s way more than they technically had to do.
Compare that to meta support where I had to talk to 4 different help desk lackeys who told me my quest was definitely on the way in another package (even after I showed them incontrovertible proof there weren’t multiple packages under the same number and I received all the packages) before they finally escalated me to the “specialist” team, who took a FULL DAY PER RESPONSE. Fuck meta, fuck zucc, hail gaben.
I mean facebook is run by nazis, you got what you paid for on that end.
Honestly I think the reason for the pseudo cult think is three parts he doesn’t want it, he keeps his head down, and valve generally produces decent services and products. If any of those disappeared folks would probably stop it to a large degree.
I’m sure that’s why he doesn’t seek attention, he already has too much.
I can understand preferring scuba diving to doing interviews.
I can’t imagine how you read my comment and determined that the thing that confused me was why he doesn’t do many interviews.
I know right and why Zoom? Surely they could have used something better.
Casual reminder that Gabe Newell owns 6 yachts worth an estimated US$1 billion and that he is not your friend.
not my friend, but not as clearly my enemy as many other wealthy people
Class consciousness leaving my body when the money hoarder owns the store I buy treats from
So true
Gabe Newell is better than many others, but this is true, the best man on Earth will become an absolute pissbag given power for continuous enough period of time to realize that.
And the best man on Earth is probably some volunteer medic in some African warzone, not a computer programmer and a tech businessman.
Jacinda Adern as New Zealand PM seemed to be sort of that type
Power always corrupts.
Maybe it’s you!
Thanks, but I have my very reasonable doubts
We believe in you, rottingleaf!
Thx, will remember that
Man that has poured shitloads of money into turning linux into a more mainstream desktop platform is rich
Wow.
A huge chunk of that Linux development was paid for by exploiting child gambling.
Just because one does a few good things with their money, doesn’t justify how they got it.
Valve was making bank before lootcrates, and lootcrates have been available to kids since trading card games.
Sure, we know loot boxes are bad because they exploit the psychology of gambling. But what about Steam sales? They’re exploiting FOMO, hoarding/collecting psychology. We know that Steam users are buying billions of dollars worth of games they never play.
This dude is 100% correct and I have no idea why people are downvoting him. Sales make people more likely to buy a product due to being limited. Limited time sales work better than lowering prices in the long term.
It’s why indie games do stuff like release their new games with time-limited 10% off discounts.
Regular sales are FOMO? Come on.
Now you’re being actually ridiculous. “Sales are bad”? Really?
There is no ethical consumption under capitalism.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
We can nitpick specific examples for everything you want, and we will be correct, but that detracts from the point that Gabe has helped to build things that took decades of slowly getting anywhere.
I wish we didn’t need it, but we do.
They hated him because he spoke the truth.
Not sure exactly what you’re trying to say here but I guarantee 0% of that wealth came from his investments in Linux support. Their investment in Linux is mostly a way of keeping MS in check, as in “if you try to fuck us the way Apple does with iOS, your customers will leave Windows because they’d rather have something where they can play their giant library of existing games”.
Hey if Gabe wants to make Linux phones something to be taken seriously I’m all for that. Until then, Gemini creeps me the fuck out so no android. I can tolerate Siri being fucking dumb.
Man, I just can’t stand a phone that seems like it’s built for children to use and not be able to hurt themselves.
I think you missed the point. No one was talking about Android or iOS. We were talking about Windows and Linux.
Valve’s investment in Linux began back in the Windows Vista days when MS tried to control Windows the same way that Apple does with iOS.
You literally mentioned iOS above. And my point stands. If Gabe were to start porting those games to a Linux phone of some sort, it would really help that platform, much like he’s helped the Linux community and his own business interests.
Him going after Microsoft benefits everybody. Him going after Apple could do the same.
You literally mentioned iOS above.
It’s literally called an analogy. It was not literally the subject of the conversation.
If Gabe were to start porting those games to a Linux phone of some sort, it would really help that platform
You’re still literally demonstrating that you don’t understand the motive of supporting Linux, despite me literally just explaining it.
Gabe literally does not care about the platform, he cares about protecting his revenue stream. Making Linux phones would literally not do that.
I understand this was motivated by his businesses interests. But it’s happens to benefit others as well. Value working to make Linux phones more viable is a bit of a pipe dream but it would certainly whip Google and Apple into shape. And that was my point.
I don’t take issue with rich people. Owning boats worth US$1 billion is past the point of rich.
Why are you taking the worth for granted though?
Man who didn’t want his business to be completely reliant on Microsoft, made a decision to ensure his money in the future
I just dont understand miney obsessed people. Why the hell do you need multiple yachts? Why even work at this point when you could just … not? You would still afford everything you ever want without ever checking your bank account. I just dont get it.
I would 100% still work if I were rich. The only thing that would change is when and what I work on.
Helps to keep a healthy routine.
Nothing worse than an unstructured day where you mentally waste away.I still manage to do that with a job 😎👉
He probably enjoys working. Lots of people like to feel like they’re making things happen
That includes some bad people too … Well, I dunno how bad, just a certain Larry Ellison still loves working, or so I’ve heard. Or Bill Gates.
He said he’s having fun 🤪
Yup, if I was worth an obscene amount, I’d still work, but the nature of my work would change. It sounds like he found something he enjoys that happens to make a ton of money.
That’s the dream really. Whether that thing you love makes money or not, that’s what you can do once you have enough.
Exactly. I have a few ideas for that, but I’m not nearly to the point of funding them:
- start/join charity to help people get out of debt
- create a game dev studio to make my dream games
- finish building my P2P Reddit alternative
I’m working on the last two in my spare time, but I’m not willing to quit my day job and rely on the those to pay the bills. If I got a windfall, I’d consider it, but of not, I hope to be there in my lifetime 50s. We’ll see.
I’m sure many (most?) have something similar.
He’s last on the list to be eaten though.
G*mers: “that’s not going to stop me. I can’t read”
So what?
That’s for every individual reading this to decide. It will either mean something or nothing to you.
Personally, I don’t think billionaires should exist. Even the ones that I think have done cool things. And I definitely don’t think anyone needs 6 yachts in a world that is burning.
Gabe shouldnt be able to have the money he has, but his yacht ownership isn’t the issue many are making when pointing it out. One is his home, full time, any home he was going own was realistically going to suck for the environment. Last I read the others are all like research vessels, emergency medical facilities for disaster relief, and humanitarian aid, and shit. Not like a zuck’s smaller yacht to act as a helipad for his larger yacht thing.
maybe some day we will have a system that prevents people from having that much money, until then any place with an active enough economy has some assholes owning yachts.
Personally, I don’t think billionaires should exist. Even the ones that I think have done cool things.
Yeah, it’s in the intersection of two “doubt” points making one “almost sure” point.
First, people getting power get spoiled fast, it’s not possible to resist, it’s as if I could have any girl I like and she’d like me and I knew that, just no chance to avoid a sensory burnout after a few months of, eh, feeling that. The possibility that a person can resist that is very small, people like Aristotle Onassis, maybe.
Second, if one person is worth, say, 12000 times more than another person, it’s important to ask whether they really are, or they can be replaced with like 50 of equals of that another person with proper organization and discipline. The possibility that they really are is almost negligibly small, there are a few people alive for whom one can suggest that and maybe more, but most are like those people we know and love.
I can imagine Gabe Newel being worth 100, maybe 1000 times me for the humanity, purely financially, but something of bigger orders of magnitude seems preposterous. Not even touching upon money affecting our relative legal power balance, where even factor 2 difference is just morally not acceptable.
Not that I’m of any bad opinion of Gabe, Steam is one today’s company that both doesn’t abuse its customers too much and does a lot of work on the positive side.
I’d argue that’s precisely when you need 6 yachts, possibly more.
If the coasts are gonna flood you should porbably own things that float.
He earned his money. Who cares how many yatchs he decided to buy with it?
No one earns a billion dollars.
Yawn
Yeah… earned…
How do you do fellow temporarily embarrassed billionaire?
Yeah man, totally a billionaire over here scratching together coins for a lucy. You caught me.
I do, that’s why I said something.
And nobody has “earned” that much wealth. Absolutely no one.
You’ve got bigger issues if all you care about someone is their monetary wealth.
I don’t think anything I said implies that it’s all I care about friend, and I’d say you don’t care enough.
He exploited gambling addictions and taking 30% from devs by doing nothing. Earned is a pretty strong word.
taking 30% from devs by doing nothing.
LMAO tell me you are not a dev without telling me.
Steam does a shitton for devs, the 30% is literally only for sales through their storefront, I can get any amount of keys and resell them wherever I want and give valve nothing, and they’ll still host all my shit, check ownership, handle copy sharing in family libraries, handle patching and beta tests, all for a one time fee that is even refunded if you ever get past a certain amount of copies sold.
You have no idea what the fuck you’re talking about.
I am literally a dev
If you’re a game dev, then you should also know how valuable every service steam gives is, if you’re just “a dev” then it’s not really relevant beyond understanding how much setting up all of that infrastructure would cost in terms of time, effort, marketing to actually get discoverability, and actual server costs once you need to scale.
Either way you should know enough to get that 30% is absolutely worth it.
Is that downvote the number of games you’ve released?
What games do you have on steam/gog/epic?
taking 30% from devs by doing nothing.
If this was true steam would have failed from the start. Instead, the service actually does offer a ton of benefits to both users and developers/publishers including distribution of sales, updates, additional features like forums, friends, and other things that have varying levels of positive or negative benefits to different people. That isn’t even mentioning Proton or the steam deck, just what it between the makers of the games and the people who play them.
Lootboxes are bullshit, sure. He should have spread out the benefits more to the employees as well. But the 30% cut for ‘nothing’ is incorrect.
Valve only cares about Linux so far as their cut is concerned it’s not a humanitarian mission. The entire steam platform is incredibly dated, I mean it’s still 32 bit only for fucks sale, they developed a reasonable feature set two decades ago and have been coasting on their laurels ever since. Devs can’t complain because there’s no better alternative, it’s a captive market.
Steam has been coasting on the fact that everyone shoots themselves in the foot, sure, but you should look into the unparalleled level of “free” (30% cut) marketing support Steam gives to developers. On no other platform could developers end up with the visibility they achieve on Steam with nothing more than very strategic timing and good social media presence. It’s still insanely hard, but the fact that it’s even possible to compete with zero marketing budget against AAA companies speaks volumes.
Greedily taking up an obscene excess of resources and producing crazy amount of emissions and pollution makes the planet less livable for the rest of us. Yachts do those things.
Spoken by someone who has no clue what those yahts actually do.
Indeed so what. I just need to come up with steam 2.0. And I will call it… ELECTRICITY
Some billionaires are ok.
Name 2.
Me, the last time I visited Iran and had a look at their exchange rate.
Gabe Newell owns 6 yachts worth an estimated US$1 billion
Unfathomably based, let the man scuba dive in peace.
What handheld is he playing in the top image? Looks too small to be a steam deck
It’s a Steam Deck, he has big hands.
“Bizzare”? That’s pretty much what I expected of Gabe. I don’t imagine he has to work particularly hard. Most CEOs try to hide how much they don’t do.
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The thing isn’t that they have constant work to do, but that they must be available for work at any time, for any reason. Some random and unpredictable crisis waking you up at 3am for the 5th night in a row? Sucks to be you.
I’ve known and work with extremely powerful CEOs.
This couldn’t be further from the truth.
They hire people to wake up at 3am for them.
Having known a number of CEOs over the years, they arent the ones waking up for those 3am calls unless it’s a business shattering literally apocalyptic event.
They honestly shouldn’t be the ones taking emergency calls either since most of the time they’ll be in the way.
Gabe Newell is not a usual CEO though.
There’s no reason to idolize the man.
I’m not doing that, just saying it. There’s no reason to idolize anything. Even idols. Antique Mediterranean was better for being as religiously pluralistic as rural China.
He’s definitely also not a “fixes the bug himself” CEO.
We can pretend he’s different. I can freely admit that I like to think he’s different. But no way in hell is he fixing any kind of problem, that arises in the middle of the night, himself.
Well no shit I’m talking about issues which actually relate directly to their role.
unless it’s a business shattering literally apocalyptic event.
If that’s not an issue relating directly to their role I don’t know what it.
The only reason they’d wake up 3AM for some crisis is if either the market is collapsing or their company is collapsing. Those things happening unexpectedly is something the majority of CEO-s will never experience. I guess it doesn’t suck to be a CEO when the sucky thing almost never happen.
And the market is only open from 9:30-4. Not that steam is even publicly traded.
There are alternative markets that trade pretty much 24/7
Sounds like your average IT infrastructure job.
There are plenty of non CEO jobs with similar requirements
Okay?
Do you even have a point?
Those don’t pay remotely as much.
Nothing bizarre about that. Scuba diving is nice for some people who are shall we say neuro spicy. Nothing I enjoy more than going to the bottom and just chilling in water.
Linus Torwalds seems to agree as per TIL post earlier this week.
Gabe the Diver.
Isn’t diving good for arthritis? Gabe’s no spring chicken.
Clickbaity title. Daily routine stuff is kinda memeish thing to ask successful stuff, and he’s trying to be honest about it. He gets to do the light touch management on a lot of fascinating stuff, so it’s natural that he wants to do it daily, and he seems to be mixing it up with stuff he does for fun, so it seems like he does it throughout the week, and he seems to have a good attitude about it and looks at it realistically compared to regular work/"horrible job"s.
Note he doesn’t specify times or meals; it’s just a rough sketch.
I wonder, is there good equipment available to go scuba diving with a full beard?
Lots. You just need a little vaseline in that mustache and boom.
Ugh, that sounds incredibly unpleasant. I felt that comment on a psychic level and it was….mushy.
There are full face masks and Gabe’s bread doesn’t seem to be as long as it was.
The regulator has a bite mouthpiece, so no fit issue there. Mask fit covering nose might require some shopping around or upper cheek shaving depending on growth pattern.
Sounds like a pretty good life.
so no different then normal people go to the gym on their lunch break. scuba is just a different kind of workout
Except he lives in a yatch and has his own gym, probably people that cook for him too.
yep i didn’t say he was normal just that would he his equivalent to a normal person going to the gym
I know right. I will also invent Steam 2.0. I will call it… ELECTRICITY!
New? I thought this was true for a while now.
