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GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Broken game seller

  Asset flips exploiter

  And these two came out of nowhere and have no backbone to support either of these.

  Other points are also debateable:

  Defending the monopolistic. By definition Valve is not monopoly. Even if we stretch the meaning, Valve would still barely fall under the definition. They are not the ones who decides what games to be sold and at what price. They do have competition and they are not continuously destroying it.

  Loot box pushing They adapted lootboxes? Yes! Do they insist on lootboxes? No. These are purely cosmetic and bring no advantage whatsoever. (Except TF2 but you still can get all weps by playing the game and not spending a cent. Also game is half-dead anyway) Many games adopted lootboxes, and some, like Star Wars Battlefront 2, had them as a pay-2-win option.

  Gambling economy boosting Not Valve was the one to create csgolobby and other external gambling sites. They did slightly restrict gamingling by locking items as non-tradeable for a week from the time of purchase. That is not enough to kill it, but it does restrict gambling for a bit.

  Seasonal FOMO instigator

  What exacltly fomo is with Steam? You’d say - sales. Dunno how anyone uses them but I go to check sales - if I see something I like and am willing to pay for, I buy it. I see It Takes Two for 9.99? I get! I see Need For Speed The Run for 9.99 - I pass. I don’t have to buy anything I wouldn’t play on a Steam sale even if it costs fraction of the full price.

  Fomo is when League of Legends runs winter/championship skins in store claiming that is one-time offer and that skins never are coming back to be sold so people buy them to look unique in game. This is fomo. And it becomes even more of a clown fiesta when these skins come to store a year later. Maybe even with the same one-time-offer claim.

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• regdog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yeah, I was never a fan of Tim Sweeney

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• Burghler@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I knew you’d be here. And with bad takes as usual.

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  • GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    For as long as G*mers are mindless monopoly defending sheep. I’ll never rest.

    Fuck G*mers

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• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  seasonal FOMO instigator

  Lol give me a break… Look, Gabe is a billionaire and yes that puts him on “piece of shit” scale. But it seems you really had to dig deep to think of things here. Seasonal FOMO instigator? Really?

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  • GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Trying to bring up the seasonal item drops in games like TF2, while still keeping the rhythm of the rest of the comment is quite hard.

    If you have a better way of putting it I’m all ears.

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      How about just leave it out entirely

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• festnt@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  monopolistic? what even is a monopoly anyway? afaik there are a bunch of alternatives for steam.

  loot box pushing. yeah, they do that unfortunately. though parents should really take better care of their children, so that they don’t get addicted to gambling.

  what is a Seasonal FOMO instigator?

  steam sells whstever people pay to put in the store. if the game is broken you can review it badly and ask for a refund.

  what is an assets flip exploiter?

  and even if they pushed against the current refund policy, they do have one of the best refund policies for customers afaik.

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