• Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml
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    Valve is a terrible company and Steam is an awful platform but their stance on piracy is why they deserve a lot of the success they get. In a day and age where everyone was trying as hard as possible to punish their userbase as much as possible for their crappy distribution model, here came a company that actually understood why people pirate in the first place and made a vast majority of the gaming population willingly download DRM then go through it to spend billions on games they will never play.

    Lol the valve fanboys found this, yikes. They downvote bombed this like a game which slightly annoyed them.

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      Care to explain why “Valve is a terrible company” and “Steam is an awful platform”? Surely, it has tons of porn games (that you can hide), or shitty games (that is hard to sort through), or CS:GO item gambling problems (don’t really care). But I kind of fail to see how the company or the client could be fundamentally bad.

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        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9aCwCKgkLo

        And here are some reason I personally don’t like them:

        • They routinely profit off of crime which they allow on their platforms
        • Rampant white supremacy goes completely unchallenged
        • Fuck all quality control
        • They did NFTs before it was cool
        • Will not remove hateful media off their platform unless legally forced to
        • Countless of their games have ties to real life neo-nazi movements (TF2 is especially bad for this)
        • Their CEO was active on 4chan when they started the company
        • Predatory FOMO sales tactics which has people buying games they don’t even play
        • EVERYTHING about the steam marketplace
        • This point was brought up in the video, but extreme institutional racism within the company which bleeds into their games/communities
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          Their CEO was active on 4chan when they started the company

          This one made me giggle. Who are you, the moral internet police?

          Glory to Valve for investing in Proton.