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From the opinion piece:

Last year, I pointed out how many big publishers came crawlin' back to Steam after trying their own things: EA, Activision, Microsoft. This year, for the first time ever, two Blizzard games released on Steam: Overwatch and Diablo 4.

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[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 62 points 10 months ago (2 children)

In an ideal world, if Gaben was a real saint, he would turn Steam into a foundation or steward-owned purpose organization before he retires, that can't be sold.

[–] toroknos_07@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

Thank for the interesting read

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Didn't the Patagonia owner do something like that?

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago

Yup. If you open the link they mention Patagonia. They also mention Signal, which I didn't know was also like this.