Comment on Should we boycott games with loot boxes?

• Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I dont know what Fut is and I don’t really care. Steam is the most profitable business in the US, they shouldn’t get kids addicted to gambling is my point, nor should any other game.

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They shouldn’t, but Valve invent it, and they’re definitely not the most profitable business in the US.

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    • Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They have been the most profitable business *per employee" for a long period, and they definitively are in still in the top. They have under 200 employees and generate billions in revenu because of loot boxes and because they take 30% on every games, while many studios have hundred of employees on a single game lol.

      Now I had that conversation dozens of time with gamers and I won’t do it again, but steam fucking sucks. At this point, it’s basically like arguing with a trump voter, nothing anyone can say will make them change their mind.

      gamesradar.com/internal-valve-study-found-the-hou…

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      • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Most profitable per employee is a different metric, and yes, they may very well be that, but that’s not what you said before. Boycotting all of Steam because some of Valve’s games do the thing they don’t like is a tough sell, rather than just not playing or paying into the offending games. I certainly don’t take issue with them taking a cut of every game sold on Steam, given all that they’ve built with those proceeds.

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