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brachiosaurus@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Name 5 things Valve could implement to change this that would not be to the detriment of indie devs.

Valve is a for profit company and their main goal is to boost their profits to the roof (valve ceo owns an entire fleet of megayachts). They work to boost their sales not to help other people, when their salesmen lay down 5 things they could implement on the platform their main objective is to do business. Anything you implement that benefit users and devs rather than the already full valve wallet would be a positive change.

The first thing you want to implement is a less greedy and profits drive mentality, the second thing they could implement is the source code of their platform. They could implement exact sales data for each game and transparency reports on their profits, they could implement a mastodon social page and they could implement disclaimers on AAA titles warning people they are buying games from evil corporations.

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ExperiencedWinter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
So just to recap you want valve to become a non profit, and open source their platform? It seems like you’re really mad at capitalism, and just chose to lash out at valve.

They could operate in a much more anti consumer way, like other game companies (Epic), they could remove user reviews, they could get rid of the ability for games to be added to the store without a publisher, but they don’t.

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- hirihit640@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  how is Epic anti-consumer?
  
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  - ExperiencedWinter@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I don’t use it, but last time I checked they still haven’t implemented a review system… Also there ceo is out there saying stuff like this tomshardware.com/…/epic-boss-tim-sweeney-blasts-s…
    
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- brachiosaurus@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  You are on a free, open source and decentralized platform that share nothing with steam. This is indeed the right place where to lash out at evil corporations like valve and their billionaires ceos
  
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  - atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    The main problem I see with this is that game devs are trying to use capitalism to make money. So what you’re saying is, it’s alright for game devs, but not for store fronts.
    
    That doesn’t make sense to me.
    
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    brachiosaurus@mander.xyz ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    That doesn’t make sense to me.
    
    Here an example that you can understand: nobody should buy gasoline or use cars but many are forced to do it because they have to go to work to earn the money they need to survive. The capitalists pushing this corrupted system are forced to do it only by their own greed, they are the ones who need to be blamed before anyone else.
    
    Additionally though, of the major gaming retailers, Valve has the least predatory model
    
    They promote gambling to kids, the “least predatory model” it’s still a predatory model.
    
    Did you take into account the reasons that game devs choose Valve over other retailers like GOG? Or the fact that very often game devs will use Valve, GOG and other gaming retailers?
    
    Valve managed to build a small monopoly on the videogame market and together with other tech corporation they managed to centralize internet around a bunch of service/platforms that people are now hooked to. Promoting anything outside the corporation world would result in small to zero visibility.
    
    You didn’t give any specifics in your answer to me and honestly I have to wonder if you even know where the majority of Valves money comes from.
    
    From taking a cut on selling games and from microtransactions.
    
    Now i have a question for you, how does the ceo of valve spend the majority of his money?
    
    How does the consumer benefit from and why should they switch to a different retailer than Valve’s Steam? What is the benefit of a fediverse style retailer and how does it work?
    
    join-lemmy.org/docs/index.html
    
    The whole humanity will benefit if we stop giving money to billionares and their private corporations who promote closed and centralized, for profit, evil, business models.
    
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