It's crazy how it's absolutly impossible to criticize steam without getting bashed on by so-called gamblers. The amount of free balls sucking Steam gets is just ridiculous. They have sub 100 employees , take 30% of every god damn games sold on the platform and you dont own you games. Yeah it's a cool platform, but in the end it's just another nasty capitalist business.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 minutes ago

As a Linux gamer, steam has done so much to make it incredibly easy. They didn't have to make proton, but they did and it's great.

The few games they've made have pretty much all been incredible.

The family sharing means my wife has access to my whole account on her steam deck.

Sure, they take a big cut of sales, I've heard not a great place to work, and probably some other reasons to not like them. But the good far outweighs the cons. It's hard to hate them compared to other huge companies.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Steam ils not cool. Steam is a monopoly position. This egemony need to end. We need many actors not just one.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 51 minutes ago (1 children)

Both things are currently true, they are a monopoly which is not good, but they are also acting nicely for the most part and not fucking people over despite their position

[–] [email protected] 5 points 33 minutes ago (1 children)

they are a monopoly

They are not, they're just a really good service so people use them more than the others

Epic, GOG, Itch, etc. still exist and are widely used

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 minute ago

Yea, the same way youtube isn't a monopoly... Except for all practical purposes it is.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I never gamed, so...

Fuck gambling
Fuck walled gardens
Fuck billionaires (nobody needs that much dough)
Fuck Valve/Steam (it's easy for me to say)

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 hours ago

Steam isn't perfect and I sure as shit won't be the one defending a corporation, and this isn't a good excuse at ALL, but if you've never gamed you wouldn't believe how much worse it is on the other side (GOG being the only exception).

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Honest question but why is a monopoly that takes a massive cut out of others labour cool?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

They're not a monopoly, and they provide good and valuable services to their customers. That's for both gamers and developers. There's a reason why EA Play, Origin, uPlay, Epic Games Store etc... fail to take off compared to Steam, and it's not just the availability of games.

They're also very friendly to indie developers, any dev can make and publish a game on Steam for a fairly small fee compared to what you get.

They also heavily promote and contribute to open source software and Linux in general.

But fuck them for needing to make a profit too I guess?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 53 minutes ago

Just because Steam is not an evil corporation doesn't mean we can't criticize them too. Both statements can be true, there is no way for an individual person to ethically own a billion dollars and Steam is for the most part an example of a business treating it's customers, workers, and suppliers with respect and dignity. Those statements are not mutually exclusive.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 hour ago

You forgot to mention that they get children addicted to unregulated gambling, but that would ruin the gaben wankfest you've got going on in your head for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

In what way is Steam a monopoly?

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