> Gabe Newell worked at Microsoft for 15 years - people need to start considering Valve an extension of Microsoft. Their unofficial App Store for games.
This is a really weird take, considering Valve's push into Linux.
This is a really weird take, considering Valve's push into Linux.
Valve is not an extension of Microsoft, they are a company that out-competed them.
I actually find it somewhat surprising that Microsoft is as warm as they are toward Valve. If there is a personal relationship factor, maybe that’s part of it.
But I think another part of it is that Microsoft ultimately makes more money via Steam than if Steam wasn’t a part of their ecosystem.