Submitted 1 month ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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What brainwashed G*mer sheep
Defending the monopolistic.
Loot box pushing
Gambling economy boosting
Seasonal FOMO instigator
Broken game seller
Asset flips exploiter
Refund pusher backer (he pushed hard against it from the start until the EU told them to fuck off with that shit)
Yeah, I was never a fan of Tim Sweeney
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?
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.
I knew you’d be here. And with bad takes as usual.
For as long as G*mers are mindless monopoly defending sheep. I’ll never rest.
Fuck G*mers
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.
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.
he’s like the willy wonka of video games
oh and this is my 200th comment here on this lemmy instance. seriously!
Ok GabeN junior
Also, steam deck and steam machines aren’t sold at a loss
The steam deck was sold at a loss
The steam machine doesn’t have a price yet
Got a source for that? Best I can find are “implications”, like Gaben saying the deck’s pricing is “very aggresive” and that the parts used sum up to roughly 1k dollars
How does it taste? The cock of a Gabe?
Totally untrue that they will replace faulty hardware. Was one of the first people to buy the Index. After a year the headset just stopped displaying any video.
Tried everything to fix. Even reached out asking for hardware documentation so I could fix it myself. They don’t provide the documentation ane they refused to fix or replace the headset.
Basically stole $1500 from me.
Everyone is excited to buy the new VR headset they are making but I’m steering clear.
You must have gotten a bad rep or something. I had a very similar situation, first with a lighthouse and then the headset itself. They replaced both free of charge, only asked that I send the broken ones back both times. Even sent me free shipping labels.
I think I did. Went back and forth on a support request about 20 replies deep and just gave up on any hope they would help me.
Honestly surprised me given everyone else’s experiences I read about back then.
It is what is I guess. Glad everyone else seems to have been treated well though
GabeN is one of those guys who’ll likely die a hero. Whoever comes after him has a chance of selling out and enshittifying everything he built though.
In addition to everything said, I’m pretty sure it was Oculus and John Carmack who did most of the work on getting VR to where it is.
Half-Life: Alyx is still the best FPS VR game I’ve played. Great story, environment, production values, variety, everything.
Yeah, I’ve played it using my Oculus Quest 1, too. It is the most game-like VR game, as opposed to most VR games that are more mini-games. But I’ve definitely spent more time in those mini-games than Alyx.
Valve is king of kiddie gambling. They are rich so why they money grubbing. Pathetic company.
the games with lootboxes that valve owns are not for kids, and their parents should be the ones that make sure they don’t get addicted to gambling by not buying loot boxes for their kids.
Valve does literally the bare minimum to avoid getting sued. They’ve probably spent millions of dollars on the salaries for lawyers and psychologists to come up with a new gambling system that bypasses the laws since lootboxes are being regulated all over.
Pull your head out of the sand.
I’m sus on GabeN
“No one does sales”
Sure. Don’t even need to get past the first line. I send my regards to OP.
Eh, its true that no-one does sales like Valve. Even while the sales aren’t as good as they used to be, Steam pretty much forced the market to move on what a “good” discount was. Calling it a nice move to save you money is a joke but they really did bring prices down in the whole market.
Love live Lord Gaben!
I was not given a refund when MHW launched on PC in a broken, framelocked, constantly disconnecting state.
I tried and I was not granted one.
“gaymers”
intentional or not?
Intentional and gaymer
Madrigal@lemmy.world 1 month ago
When he dies gaming is indie.