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[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

I still don't understand why the company is so highly regarded. They enable underage gambling. Life must be easy for a company. You just have to be a little bit better than the others and you are regarded as a hero.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (5 children)

i wont delete my steam account, but lord gaben wont get my money anymore, even if hes awesome. :( sorry gabe.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Just buy future games from GOG. No need to delete Steam or already made purchases.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (41 children)

I'm still gonna use American stuff that's good if they keep DEI. brb checking up on Steam.

Edit: it's not looking good tbh I think I'll switch to GOG / physical media as much as feasible.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

They seem to have a track record of lukewarm responses to social issues, lax content moderation, and a combo of flat corporate hierarchy and a complete lack of diversity in their team that have made it difficult to lead any efforts to improve the situation.

My read is that Gabe is not evil, just a comfortable old guy who, like many comfortable old (white) guys, has bought into the myth of the great meritocracy as a self serving narrative, which is really just a post-hoc mythology of success in most cases imo.

I'm reading deeply into a lot of skimmed clues, so all of the foregoing is subject to revision if I see anything compelling in the opposite direction.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (7 children)

I barely use Steam to be honest. Gosh, I need to get off Windows...

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Pretty much.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I wish more companies took the approach like steam where it seems to be they are content with the amount of money they make and limitless profits are not the end goal

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

Gaben is a billionaire, Valve isn't content with the amount of money they make, they just have good PR

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