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Discord in discussions of going Public Trading, economics expert discusses how that might change things (www.eurogamer.net)
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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world -1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Valve’s margins are almost criminal as-is. They make cash hand over fist, and they’re basically a monopoly already.

…So not much might actually change, at least at first?

But this why they don’t need to go public. They have plenty of cash. And it’d just shrink the slice of profit Valve’s owners get.

Still, even private, I’m afraid of what Steam might look like if big competitors like EGS and Microsoft footgun themselves out of the market, and GoG fades away due to their DRM-free policy.