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Larian Studios defends Valve: Steam's success is deserved (www.gamereactor.eu)

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[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 10 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

People feel good about Valve because they don’t rely on anti consumer behavior. It does what I want and doesn’t enforce me on other crap.

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 1 points 39 minutes ago

I'm a fan of Valve and Steam too. But you cannot deny that Valve does shitty stuff too. In example Valve is the company who either invented or popularized Loot Boxes. And they don't do anything about the Black Market for the item trading and selling, such as Counter Strike skins and so on. And there are other little things that could be done, but nothing else upsets me as this.

But besides that, for the most part I love Valve. The commitment to support on Linux is unmatched in the gaming world. As a private company, Valve can do whatever they want. I genuinely think that PC gaming wouldn't be this good without Valve. If anything, Microsoft would have the power... which in an alternate universe people have to suffer.