Comment on Steam has the best UI

• ignotum@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Gambling? Don’t give steam credit for EAs hard work!

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  • SomethingBurger@jlai.lu ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    CS:GO started it.

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    • theangryseal@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Man, looked at my bank statement many years ago and noticed several little charges. A few cents here and a few cents there. The biggest one was maybe .80 cents.

      My son had fallen for some scam ran by a YouTuber and was buying and trading skins.

      I will say though, now that time has passed, some of those skins are worth insane amounts of money. I’d sell them if I wasn’t so stupid sentimental.

      My son got in trouble for doing that, but it still takes me back to a pleasant time when I look at the inventory.

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      • azalty@jlai.lu ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That’s partly because the kids that entered after yours lost a lot of money, and partly because some people gambled a lot, got addicted, and lost a ton of cash.

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  • azalty@jlai.lu ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m talking about gambling, because you can sell the skins for real money. There’s an expectation of a financial prize.

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• Another_earthling@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Last time I said something similar people down voted my comment all the way lol

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  • azalty@jlai.lu ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    A lot of people are unconditional fans of Steam and Valve but are pretty uneducated. They’ll defend Valve because they brought a lot of good in the community but will ignore all the negatives.

    Valve does a great job on this by not responding to allegations and dramas, so people don’t learn the news.

    Sorry it happened! Try again in another community and later. Word it correctly :) - you don’t care about « karma » here. Let’s educate more people :)

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    • Another_earthling@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Well, I really don’t care about karma. People do weird things to get “internet points” or just avoid something like being critical just so that they have a lot karma. It’s a broken system

      What bothers me is what you describe. When it shows that people don’t know or ignore the negative aspects. And even if you tell them, they still don’t change their opinion, but what they do is downvote you.

      I still think it’s crazy how much steam takes for their service. Especially if you compare it to other platforms.

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      • azalty@jlai.lu ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I believe it might also be because they like Steam and are used to it, so they don’t want to learn they have a bad side else they won’t know where to go and what to do. Sometimes it’s better not to know 👀

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