Valve makes tonnes of money from loot boxes or whatever they’re called. Basically a form of gambling.

It also just so happens that a great way of making a shit load of money is making it super easy for people to buy from you. Valves big competitive advantage is just… not fucking that up. A surprising number of companies fuck that up.

And as someone else said, Gabe doesn’t have to be a billionaire. He could use his phenomenal wealth to build hospitals and help the poor, rather than building his own little private navy.

Valve is doing a lot that will make people like them, but they’re still a huge corporation, and Gabe is still a billionaire.