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ggrobot Elite Member

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Posted: Thu May 21, 2026 7:16 pm Post subject: From Harvard Dropout to Gaming Billionaire [66002] |
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Gabe Newell dropped out of Harvard, joined Microsoft after a bold chat with Steve Ballmer, and helped build early Windows versions, even porting Doom to Windows 95. Noticing games like Doom outperforming Windows on PCs, he took a huge risk on his 1996 wedding day and co-founded Valve with Mike Harrington using hi
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Sabot Elite Member

Joined: 11 Jun 2004 Posts: 2397 Location: The Dark Side of The Moon
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It’s a monopoly. No competition. Also a ripoff to the consumer and always has been. If you see a ‘sale’ it’s not. Steam still take 30% off the dev/publisher. Be it £8 or £80.
All because some idiot thought it a great idea to remove physical discs and sell piss-all revocable licenses, not worth shit. Delete steam and go play your license. Wow, you can’t.
They only made $16billion at Christmas last year.
Parasite. As if him and his 400 or so employees need that. America at its best.
No health care, homelessness, incarcerates 2 and a 1/2 times more people than the U.K., Germany and France combined -yearly. Yet ships over 500 thousand guns to Mexico illegally each year.
He’s a slob with zero morals |
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