they actually give a shit about their platform beyond how much money it makes them

?

They have repeatedly gutted quality control and dropped the barrier to entry, so much over the years. That all it takes to get a game on Steam is to pay them.

It doesn’t even need to be finished.

They also fought for years to prevent refunds, and are part of the group fighting against “Stop killing games”.

anti-competitive shit they did.

Again. The exact same thing Steam did.

enrich their shareholders

Because Valve has never done anything like that cough microtransactions, loot boxes, child gambling, selling unfinished games, gutting quality control to collect money from allowing companies to simply pay to get on Steam cough

Whereas the other platforms did?

Anti-competitive stuff.

Like Uplay and Origin moving their games off the third party service onto a first party service (As we’ve established the same thing Steam did)

Or Epic’s timed exclusives.

Unlike Steam’s actual exclusive deals they stuck with publishers to force Steam as DRM. Also preventing it being sold on other online distribution services (because there was a lot back in the day, even IGN had one).

Or their current practice of not allowing publishers to sell a game cheaper on another platform.

Lemmy ahh post

Don’t even know how a circle works

theirs were only their own games

Just like when Steam launched.

steam has all the publishers

Only after doing deals with publishers for them to use Steam as DRM for physical releases. Building up Steam’s user base and killing the physical market.

If someone tried to recreate Steam today. The G*mers would throw a fit.

How do I know?

Because that’s what Uplay and Origin were.

Attempts to recreate Steam as a forced online launcher for physical products

G*mers

To bad Lemmites are allergic to actually thinking about a situation. Rather then just circlejerking over a headline.

I can see why so many Lemmites got kicked off Reddit, and then act like the crazy obsessive ex.

Really doesn’t paint you in the best light. When you’re admitted that less racism pushed you off a platform.

Ah yes.

Because one user

Made a post

On a single sub

And the mods caught the racist joke

I would rather have “normies” then the terminally online divorced from reality late 30 something weirdos with opinions that range from “yikes” to “please keep 100 miles away from a school at all times” users currently making up the majority.

Gaming subs were loving all the AI supported piracy the last couple days.

That and making up excuses defending Valve for selling AI slop.

And just like that

G*mers are back to hating AI

It’s a picture of a woman doing something wrong.

That’s like catnip to lemmites

People pay to put a game on Steam.

The more games being sold on Steam, the more money valve gets.

It’s been coming for a long time. Steam always had a slop problem since the greenlight days.

The reason so much shit got onto the platform was by exploiting the trading card system, and Valve allowed it.

Eventually Valve realised they could get more money by just skipping the vote, and allowing people to just pay to get their games on the platform.

That hurts Valve’s bottom line.

Never going to happen

This is the exact same attitude they had to the deluge of unity store asset flips (well they actually tried to blame unity for that, but I digress)

Steam gets their money either way.

And that’s what Lord GabeN needs to buy another super yacht for himself, and more Aston Martins for his son to race.

Literally the same thing publishers and Steam did to build a PC gaming monopoly.

They know G*mers are dumbasses

Aw dude

G*mers are ok with AI if it allows piracy.