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Private equity is salivating over the idea of ~~running his carefully built brand into the ground~~maximizing value extraction from steam.
The current meta here is that things like brand loyalty and reputation are not really worth preserving, and are only as good as whatever short-term gains you can squeeze out of them.
Supposedly gaben has threatened to release code in a death switch that would make every steam user able to play their games without phoning home.
I know that I would never buy another game if steam went down the toilet. Piracy was fun when I was a kid, and I bet it could be fun again.