I do think it's really goddamned funny that nearly every single other big game publisher that's tried to compete with Valve has failed miserably, due almost entirely to their own incompetence(s). Origin, Uplay, Battle.net, et cetera, all total flops that nobody was ever happy to use. Not because Steam is an excellent service, christ no; even at its best, it's a store with frequent sales tied to an annoying DRM launcher, and not because they (to my knowledge or memory) even really lifted a finger to try and do anything about them, but because apparently Valve is the only major games publisher with any foresight past their next quarterly profit report and knows how to actually run a business sustainably.

I'd love to be an absolute hater on Valve coming up with the most bland fucking concept for a new game imaginable, but a friend's excited for it so I shouldn't do that cause it'd bum them out, but man. new valve is nothing but fucking depressing. In The Valley of Gods gets fucking killed and we get..... deadlock.