So your argument is that they’re mostly good so you’ll look the other way here?
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Fokeu@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
I can’t believe that I side with a corporation but that just shows how immensely idiotic this is. We have so many straight up evil companies but they’d rather pick up on the one which is somewhat beneficial to our freedom and digital rights. Until we get a good competitor I’ll stand with steam even if though hate corporations. Lesser evil
Electric_Druid@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Naia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 hours ago
Look, I don’t have any love for loot boxes in general, at least when it’s real money. But there are far more egregious examples that would work just as well if not better for going after the practice of loot boxes than what steam does.
There’s a reason they are singling out steam, and they signal why in the statement, saying this “teaches kids to gamble and makes them violent”, repeating 90s BS about “violent video games”, when the games in question are rated M, meaning if a child is playing it then that is 100% on the parents… and still not illegal anyway.
They are most likely singling out valve because they refuse to play ball with the privacy violating age checks. Valve did the bare minimum they had to: basically clearing anyone with a credit card registered as being over 18.
Valve is also not a publicly traded company and is very customer focused, even with the loot box thing.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
100%
zipfile@lemmy.ml 15 hours ago
What’s wrong with making valve stop an actually bad thing they do?
This is how we got refunds lol