• finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    24 days ago

    I love how Valve’s strategy is basically just ‘don’t piss off the customers and occasionally do something super fucking cool’, while everyone else in the space seems to be cutting off their nose to spite their face

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        22 days ago

        Valve ceo just added a $500 million mega yacht to his fleet. Valve true benefit is that thanks to window they managed to build a monopoly on videogames distribuition and that their customers are kids addicted to videogames.

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          21 days ago

          and that their customers are kids addicted to videogames

          TIL I’m a “kid” despite being 44 years old

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              21 days ago

              I’m here on lemmy because I’m a reddit refugee, I spent almost 12 years there but came here when they did their little API shakedown shitshow. Lemmy is good enough for me, despite there being the occasional troll, like you seem to be.

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      24 days ago

      Valve also gutted their LGBTQIA+ content a few months back. And they have had a MASSIVE nazi infestation basically since they set up message boards because Gabe Newell is infamously libertarian.

      So… chill a bit with the glazing. They are better in a lot of ways but they are not our friends.

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        22 days ago

        Gabe Newell is infamously libertarian.

        So libertarian he become a billionare thanks to a platform where you don’t own any of your games.

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      22 days ago

      I don’t love much how people fall from valve marketing. Not owning any game i buy would piss me off

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      23 days ago

      don’t piss off the customers

      Unless it’s their UI, they love to do pointless changes nowadays. On top of the stuff mentioned by the other replies

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        23 days ago

        any and all UI changes will make people angry

        steam has had so few of them compared to idk youtube that, imo it’s fine even if it’s kinda pointless

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          23 days ago

          At least they kept some of the old ones, still kinda dumb that to access the old tags system you have to click search with an empty search field of all things. Also kinda weird that they killed old skins so fast, I don’t have anything against using SFP and patching in a new one but it’s gotta be really demotivating for skin creators.