• Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9aCwCKgkLo

    And here are some reason I personally don’t like them:

    • They routinely profit off of crime which they allow on their platforms
    • Rampant white supremacy goes completely unchallenged
    • Fuck all quality control
    • They did NFTs before it was cool
    • Will not remove hateful media off their platform unless legally forced to
    • Countless of their games have ties to real life neo-nazi movements (TF2 is especially bad for this)
    • Their CEO was active on 4chan when they started the company
    • Predatory FOMO sales tactics which has people buying games they don’t even play
    • EVERYTHING about the steam marketplace
    • This point was brought up in the video, but extreme institutional racism within the company which bleeds into their games/communities
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      Their CEO was active on 4chan when they started the company

      This one made me giggle. Who are you, the moral internet police?

      Glory to Valve for investing in Proton.

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      To sum it up: about the same as any platform where people can interact? What’s so FOMO about a game being on sale if it’s gonna be on sale next week aswell?

      I fail to see how Steam Market is so bad, it is not possible to redeem the cash (unless you do it via black market, which is against the TOS), so all money is still in the system. Yeah, it is being used to do unregulated gambling, but it’s a regulatory problem which should be handled by the countries to define what gambling is, and shut these sites down. Why the fuck should Steam care?

      NFTs in crypto space are a joke, and everywhere else they are basically in any online software, failing to see the point here.

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        Regarding gambling, it’s not quite so simple. Valve doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Many rich people see what goes on in that ecosystem and they lobby their governments to make it easier for themselves to do even more audacious things. Valve can lead by example instead of opening the door

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      If you didn’t sample 4chan in that time you missed out on a lot of Internet culture. Not everyone posting on there was. It was really entertaining to watch the shitshow.