Comment on Steam lawsuits in a nutshell

purplerabbit@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• mushroommunk@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I mean there is some hint of defense in this meme, and people definitely do jump to Valve’s defense, but I read it differently. I read it as a complaint that all these companies keep making the dumbest sounding ideas and are pissing people off. Like Sony removing the PC tag across all their sites today.

  Like yes they’re corporations just trying to make money, but frustrated fans are frustrated and rightly so.

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• Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  These lawsuits at Valve risk harming an ecosystem that’s actually quite fair to the consumer.

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• TheV2@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This might seem unusual, but some weird people out there hate corporations for what they actually do and not because hating corporations is their fashion statement.

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  • Tiresia@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    So you hate Valve for creating gambling infrastructure, for taking a massive slice out of developers’ paychecks on every purchase, and using sales to get people to make FOMO purchases, right? Right?

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    • ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      And artificially pumping up the price of games because steam has to have the lowest regular price (so even if another platform takes less than 30% gouge, they can’t offer the game for less than steam sells it for).

      But people here will jump from the throat of anyone claiming they have any anti consumer policies

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    • TheV2@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I hate them for downplaying the problems of their loot-boxes and for not willing to take any measure against it.

      I do not hate them for taking a massive slice out of developers’ paychecks. A developer must make the choice whether the benefits of Steam are worth that slice or not.

      And uh…I do not feel overwhelmingly happy, when a game on my wish-list is on sale. But I do not hate it…If people buy a game they didn’t want…out of fear of missing out on a sale…then, sorry, but they need to get their shit together and take active efforts to have more control over their money.

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• Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Here’s the problem: Out of thousands of corporations, the chances that none of them are headed by genuinely nice CEOs that at least like to balance consumer needs with the drive for price squeezing is pretty low.

  Presenting high suspicion, and suspect most of them are out to get you, even in Valve’s case, makes sense. But here’s the kicker:

  People are pressured to spend. Food, basic luxuries, transport; on some measures they have to, no matter how much they protest it. The scummiest of the companies providing those things know you’ll hate them. So, their version of PR is to make sure you hate all of their competitors equally, absent of logic.

  There are plenty of genuine, real, tangible reasons to hate companies that can be described in detail, like Valve inventing the loot box and making a gambling market accessible for kids. But throwing logic aside and saying to hate them for nothing specific is, in some ways, shilling for the worst of big game companies.

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