Make Valve more money directly. It'll be Valve's walled garden.

As much as Gabe has expressed that Windows 8 and the store "threatens" gaming, it's all just a bunch of bullshit. MS has made no effort to push people to buying games through the store that you can't get elsewhere (besides like Skulls of the Shogun, which they published directly, but is on Steam anyway...).

They claim is that SteamOS is faster on certain games, but by marginal levels (2-3% on Valve optimized old titles using specific hardware configurations).

In reality, MS doesn't give a shit where you buy your games so long as you are using Windows. Gabe cares a great deal about losing the near-monopoly Steam has today.