A lot of people won't like the answer but no private individual should ever trust a corporate entity. They aren't held to the same standards a regular person is so we can only hope that in a bad situation, the company will do the right thing. When there's a difference between right morally, right for the customer and right for the bottom line is the time to start sweating and hoping.
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When it comes to archiving piracy is the answer anyways since the average person is not going to be backing up all their games and creating redundant back ups of it.
I trust Gabe. I just don't trust whoever takes over after him.
Hopefully Gabe sets up a trust to oversee the future benevolent development of PC gaming
I trust him to have a good plan in place for when he's gone honestly.
Reminder that the 30% steam tax is absolutely greed. Gabe is a libertarian and charges it because he can get away with it. It makes games worse by affecting the equation measuring what is profitable to make. Gabe doesn't care about that, and that should be taken into account when considering if you actually trust him.
State your reasoning. Because I’ve seen many developers defending the 30% steam tax.
Considering that they offer full online support without the dev need to host it themselfs, for only 100, the server costs come from somewhere
It's not ideal, but it's okay for now. Shit will get real when Gabe passes away though.
The biggest criticism is you dont own what you buy.
Some older games gave an old school game code to unlock the game. So some I own, but many no, and that sucks
Thats what I like about what OP linked. But those platforms dont really incorporate all that steam does well. Making it easy to link up with friends is important. Though I have found myself using Playnite instead of Steam to browse and launch my games.
In the future we'll all own everything.
As far as companies go I trust valve.
Valve has been the least shit player in the game distribution ecosystem for decades. Maybe they could lower their cut but the push for Linux compatibility is worth any premium they want to charge.