| BenVTrigger said:
I think your mistaking what I'm saying. Something can be both "good for the consumer" and a power move from a business's point of view. Valve exists to make money. End of story. Every business exists for that single purpose. I genuinely belive Valve thinks this system will make consumers happy but they didn't just decide to do this so everyone would say, Wow I sure love Gaben! They saw an opportunity, saw that they could fill a void they belived MS was leaving open, and thought they could make money off of it. People really look at these companies all wrong. Neither Valve, Sony, MS, or anyone else for that exist just to make us happy. They exist for money, and this 100% a power move by Valve to monetize their business. |
I don't think valve meant to take power away from Microsoft in the PC gaming market. I know what your saying but your conspiracy theory about valve wanting to take over PC gaming is far fetched.
Companies are supposed to make CUSTOMERS NOT MONEY. The reason why companies build up is the amount of TRUST that customers place in a corporation. Despite the blunders that microsoft pulled with Vista the customers STILL trusted microsoft in the end and microsoft came back with a home run with windows 7. The same applies to Sony with the PS3. It was a MASSIVE FAILURE but the one thing in the end that Sony was able to resolve was CONSUMER TRUST and that is why the PS4 is taking off.
There are different ways to make money and it is possible to do it without gaining the consumers hate. It is TRUST from the customers that determines the future of a company. The reason you see a ton of gamers giving EA and Nintendo alot of DISDAIN has to do with the fact that they treat their customers poorly. Despite them having alot of success in their products they don't wish to build TRUST. EA wants to continually make iterations of their software to milk it dry. The WII was successful but Nintendo stopped giving out quality software to the userbase and in the end Nintendo only received more animosity from it hence one of the reasons that the WII U is flopping.
