> I wish games can just stay games like Valve does and not grow and grow and grow into public companies.

Valve is a very interesting example to use here, I don't think of them as a game company anymore. They run Steam but I can't remember the last game they actually released?

Technically it's not released yet but deadlock has 75k people playing as of writing this comment.

https://steamdb.info/app/1422450/charts/

Half life alyx and their push for openVR has made a big impact in that part of the gaming world.

But yeah, their games are just as filled with lootbox, crates, skin garbage as other low effort money grabs; saving grace being its all cosmetics only (and they’re private about their financials).