Valve’s head told about the Steam vs. Epic Games competition that he appreciates that Steam has rivals, but he has issues with a few…

Gabe Newell is alive and kicking, and he has been talking here and there.

He also spoke with the EDGE magazine, and GamesRadar took some quotes from him. The head of Valve, nicknamed as Gaben, said that he isn’t freaked out by the competition provided by Epic Games, but he has problems with others.

„Competition in game stores is awesome for everybody. It keeps us honest, it keeps everybody else honest, but it’s ugly in the short term. You’re like, ‘Argh, they’re yelling, they’re making us look bad.’ But in the long term, everybody benefits from the discipline and the thoughtfulness it means you have to have about your business by having people come in and challenge you.

We get a lot more freaked out not by competition, but by people trying to preclude competition. If you ask us which is scarier, it’s people falling in love with Apple’s model of controlling everything and having faceless bureaucrats who get to keep your product from entering the market if they don’t want it to, or designing a store in a way that minimizes software’s value-add to experience and stuff like that,” Newell said.

Then again, in the past few years, Steam has been expanding its library with shovelware that doesn’t seem to have much effort whatsoever. Still, Newell isn’t afraid of the Epic Games Store, as Steam has been the market leader for quite some time even against GOG (who needs no client, and it also allows you to download the games’ installers). He doesn’t like Apple’s approach. (Neither does Tim Sweeney.)

Steam has a few good games for free to stay at home – such as 2013’s Tomb Raider, the first of the reboot trilogy, in case you have missed it.

Source: WCCFTech

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