• Squizzy@lemmy.world
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      Anticompetitive practices with their marketshare and pricing exclusivity. Fearful of what a post Gabe steam looks like too

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        Based on their current management model of “desks on wheels” they’d probably be most comfortable becoming a worker-owned coop. I know I’m in dreamland, but it would be amazing if they could go that direction when Gabe is gone.

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        What anticompetitive practices? This normally refers to things like selling at a loss long enough to destroy fledgling competition and the like. As far as I’m aware, steam just… provides good services that other stores don’t?

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            They aren’t publicly traded so put those fears to rest until Gaben dies (may that be FAR in the future), then we have to hope his successor has a similar mindset.

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      Doesn’t need to be publicly traded; just about anything with investors looking for a return