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  • Grimy@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldGabe the GOAT Newell
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    10 days ago

    Yup, just like when cops sit back and watch Ice act I guess. Inaction doesn’t make them the good guys, especially when steam could legit actually tell publishers they can’t kill their games when it’s sold through their platform.

    Didn’t steam have a heavy hand in popularizing DRM? I’m fairly certain the system is built so I don’t own the games and steam plays along like the rest, creating an environment where it’s possible to kill games in the first place.

    This isn’t the best argument in their favor tbh.

    Edit: Welp, green bean machine is mass downvoting me with 5 of his accounts.


  • Grimy@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldGabe the GOAT Newell
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    10 days ago

    So I like this analogy but I feel like in our case, you would have Microsoft for example as ICE and Steam as regular mildly racist cops. In the end, they are both part of the same system and abuse of it in the same way, just at different levels of intensity. Most of the time, they help each other abuse of it and back each other.

    We need legislation for all game stores, but we will never get any if most gamers keep thinking steam isn’t part of the problem.

    I understand choosing a lesser evil, but not defending it. Like how we all had to choose kamala but you wouldn’t catch me dead actually defending the shit show she orchestrated. Also, the defending when it comes to steam kind of feels like bootlicking more than anything tbh.




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    Steam extracts money from their customers and suppliers at an insane profit ratio and has barely any employees. You are one of the simps bro.

    Game stores are money printing machines. Gaben isn’t your friend looking out for you, he probably laughs about peasants like you. You are a money bag waiting to be sucked dry.