This is accurate and the fact that so few feel this way, really does provide clues as to why the USA has become suck an evil monster.
gmtom@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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Being a simp for a multi billion dollar company is never a good thing. It’s not good for you as a consumer and, frankly, is just incredibly cringe.
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No, it’s not, the main point of the lawsuit is that Steam does not let game Devs sell their game for cheaper on any other platform.
So if you don’t like that Steam takes a massive 30% cut of your sales so that Gabe can buy his 27th mega-yatch, and you decide to also put your game on another platform that takes a fairer, smaller cut, then chose to pass on those savings to the consumer, then valve will kick you off the platform and you’ll lose access to by far the biggest market in PC gaming.
Fuck valve and fuck you brain dead fanboys simping for a billionaire and making everything worse for the rest of us because your entire worldview comes from memes.
ImmersiveMatthew@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
WraithGear@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
no it’s not! i have bought games off other services and even from the devs own web site because it was cheaper. you just can’t sell STEAM KEYS which use steams service for cheaper then what it’s sold for in stream.
Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
You’re just simping for a different billionaire out here regurgitating Tim Sweeney’s talking points verbatim…
gmtom@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Supporting consumer rights is basically the exact opposite of simping for billionaires actually.
Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
True, which is why it is so easy to tell which one you are doing. :)
Nikls94@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Wrong topic but I feel the same about online age verification. All my friends and family and everyone I know say it’s good for the children and I’m here like wtf
beejboytyson@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Those are the same ppl that don’t give a fuck about the files I bet.
sartalon@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
This is a very narrow viewpoint that is borderline disingenuous.
You blame OP for being a simp, BECAUSE OF A MEME, then argue the plaintiff’s narrative without any critical breakdown or context.
You are not any better.
There is a lot of nuance here that you just ignore.
Valve is not using their resources to prevent/undermine competition.
Valve’s percentage is absolutely worthy of debate, but does not make them a monopoly.
I will state that I support Valve when it comes to the big releases, but definitely wish they tiered their fees to support smaller developers.
I get why they do it, but I wish they were a bit friendlier to the smaller developers
If the other companies used a platform that was even remotely close to the ease of use as Steam, I might feel differently, but they don’t
I have lost access to several titles because of these companies’ “competing” platforms.
Valve provides a service that is critical and beneficial. And in a way that these other companies seem incapable or unwilling to provide.
They are not preventing them from doing it in any way.
They just don’t want to get undercut on products that use their service. That is a valid argument.
Maybe if other companies didn’t create such bloated, underperforming crapware, they wouldn’t feel forced to use Steam.
And smaller developers aside, these companies already suck so much money out of the user/buyer as they can and are not passing that revenue to the actual software developer, while Valve does share its revenue with its employees, despite your claim that Gabe is buying his “27th yacht”.
gmtom@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
The argument that valve has a monopoly because their platform is just so amazing and all the others is trash is exactly the simping behaviour I’m talking about.
If steam wasn’t already considered the default and valve didn’t have this insane cult of personality around Gabe Newell, steam would be considered mostly on par with other providers.
We as consumers let valve get away with so much bullshit because of “omg lord gaben and his summer sales! My wallet isn’t ready XD” types.
Like valve had to be sued into have a returns policy, they popularised predatory loot box mechanics and pushed an entire gambling based economy on children and made ludicrous amounts of money from it, popularised early access and asset flip slop, caved to the whole MasterCard censorship campaign
sartalon@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
So my experience accounts for nothing?
So even though I’ve lost access to multiple titles because other software companies can’t get their shit together and were a terrible experience, I’m not allowed to use that as an example of why Valve has become the standard?
But any argument against your opinion is “simping”.
Do you even hear yourself?
What you are doing is a form of manipulation and gaslighting.
Those things Valve was sued over were also industry standard practices.
Your argument is awash with emotional outbursts which tells the real story here.
You’ve picked a side for one reason or another and just make bad arguments, trying to support it.
Show me a single game company, of that size, that HASN’T been sued. Since that seems to be your metric of what makes a company so evil.
architect@thelemmy.club 21 hours ago
It’s exactly what Amazon does. Super easy to get around by offering different versions.
I doubt they win against Steam since all of ecommerce does this and Steam is not the worst.
If they do win that would imply Amazon needs to comply and that would be amazing so no way that’s happening.
verdigris@lemmy.ml 17 hours ago
2 is false. It only applies to steam keys.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
A steam key is the receipt that you paid for the game. It is ridiculous that companies get to skirt laws by saying, “It’s on a computer.”
Imagine you buy a car. Years later you go to resell it for less and the manufacture claims you can’t because the sales receipt that proves you are the legitimate owner is a “Steam Cars Inc key” and therefore all existing laws do not apply.
verdigris@lemmy.ml 7 hours ago
Yeah that’s not what they’re preventing. It’s to stop someone with rights to generate keys, i.e. the developer, from generating a lot of Steam keys and then selling them on their own site at a discount, which is basically leeching off of the Steam infrastructure & ecosystem while sidestepping the storefront. Which is fine as long as they don’t undercut.
The EULA for any software you’ve ever paid for is what forbids resale.