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Pirates, all of a sudden, discussing PAID options!!? How did we regress that far !? (www.reddit.com)
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[–] derpgon@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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
[–] Duxon@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.