Steam refused to issue refunds for a long, long time. In the end they started allowing refunds for everyone because governments started requiring it and it was easier to just allow them for everyone than having to do the legal footwork to have different policies based on geography.
this post was submitted on 07 Dec 2025
764 points (95.9% liked)
Greentext
7783 readers
1252 users here now
This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.
Be warned:
- Anon is often crazy.
- Anon is often depressed.
- Anon frequently shares thoughts that are immature, offensive, or incomprehensible.
If you find yourself getting angry (or god forbid, agreeing) with something Anon has said, you might be doing it wrong.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Forgot about steam's forced DRM on purchases. Forgot about their inconsistent policing of content in games they sell. Forgot about steam not wanting accounts to be inherited when you pass away. Forgot about their 30% cut for small devs while bigger devs get a smaller cut. Forgot about a lot of things.
Forgot about steam's forced DRM on purchases.
Not a thing.
Also, are you complaining that smaller devs get a bigger cut than larger devs? That's certainly an interesting gripe...
load more comments
(4 replies)
There's not steam added drm, for games that the developer didn't add drm to you van just go to the games folder and launch the executable.
For a good chunk of games without drm they're even portable, ie you can copy the game's folder to a flashdrive and run it anywhere or give people working copies.
load more comments
(6 replies)
load more comments
(4 replies)
Unfortunately gaming might already be dead with these RAM prices and Micron giving up on the consumer space. Unless Valve wants to start buying chips wholesale and selling DIMM and SODIMM modules.
The power vacuum this man will leave behind sucks.
Never thought I’d see the day when Lemmy has nice things to say about a billionaire who owns multiple yachts!
There’s a story recently about how a huge percentage of people’s steam libraries are never played. People just spending money on steam sales and amassing huge backlogs of games they’ll never get to. Valve has mastered the art of using sales to create FOMO and drive unnecessary spending!
So your position is a store should never have sales? Besides, pretty sure games need to willingly participate to be on sale. e.g. factorio has never been on sale.
load more comments
(3 replies)
Imagine arguing that creating a service so much better than the competition available in that industry that it drives people to spend the most money on that platform is a bad thing.
load more comments
(23 replies)
load more comments
(16 replies)
When he dies gaming is indie.
It seems like everyone has already forgotten how he introduced gambling to kids.
load more comments
(4 replies)
I'm pretty reluctant to be this flattening towards Gabe Newell and Valve.
Once Google was seen as one of the good companies. "Googling" became synonimous with searching on the internet. Most if not all competitors went bankrupt. When Google was accused of monopolistic behavior, its fans treated it as an attack on "perfection". Google Chrome was a fast browser requiring less memory than its competitors. People saw them owning YouTube as a good thing. The most common form of toxicity towards new users in the Linux community was only providing lmgtfy links to them (I did get the occasional custom WinXP ISO torrent link too). Even their motto was don't be evil.
And then came the YouTube content ID system. And then they were reluctant to throw off the far-right from their platform for breaking their ToS during Gamergate. Then they dropped the motto. Then they put ads into the Google search results. Then they let the far-right control their platform before the 2024 elections. And also they're pushing AI hard.
Will Gabe Newell stick to his ideas, or get an anyeurism and join the Trump oligarchs?
It is fair to compare Google to Valve only in a category of "once been good". Other than that, 2 different companies with 2 different mottos.
How do you write all this and fail to mention that search doesn't even fucking work anymore?
I'm not arguing with you. But internet searching aDOEA NOT WORK ANYMROE.
load more comments
(2 replies)
So, you are afraid to have an opinion in case future events make it invalid?
How do you support literally anything with this mindset?
Elon Musk might be haunted by the three spirits of not being racist this christmas and give away all his possessions. Nonetheless, I'm happy to call him wanker today, because it's an accurate representation of reality at present.
load more comments
(1 replies)
In addition to everything said, I'm pretty sure it was Oculus and John Carmack who did most of the work on getting VR to where it is.
Half-Life: Alyx is still the best FPS VR game I've played. Great story, environment, production values, variety, everything.
load more comments
(1 replies)
GabeN is one of those guys who'll likely die a hero. Whoever comes after him has a chance of selling out and enshittifying everything he built though.
I'm sus on GabeN