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Lotta billionaire sucking in this thread. Just because you like his platform doesn't make GabeN a good person.
Everyone say it: There's no such thing as an ethical billionaire.
I am honestly a little bit in shock how people are willing to do volunteer PR for Valve.
They are an American technology, they can't escape the culture of corruption and criminality that dominates their region.
Good, gambling needs to be cracked down its getting way to bad.
~~Love how they chose Valve specifically. I'd think it'd be better going after the companies making those games rather than a distributor.~~
~~Not really gonna discourage the game creators from making loot box mechanics.~~
~~Though I will say that I think any and everyone profiting from loot boxes should get fined wherever and whenever possible. I'd just start somewhere more impactful.~~
Edit: I see I had a proper logical short circuit in my original statement.
I only considered loot boxes as mechanics required for game changing advantages, gear, and loot. Not things like cosmetics.
Last time I played CS it didn't even have cosmetics, I only played DOTA as a Warcraft 3 mod, and I thought TF2 was limited to hats and sidegrades that could be unblocked through playing and achievements still.
Furthermore, I didn't stop to consider that people would actually gamble their money away on in game cosmetic items.
That's on me, not taking the time to consider things properly in the early morning hours.
I'd like to thank the people who pointed out my error, and I'm pleasantly surprised about how civil and to the point everyone was. A nice throwback to how I remember the internet used to be, though I'm probably looking at that with rose tinted goggles too.
Cheers!
Yeah, well, fuck you for being a reasonable person.
This is coming in so late that it basically seems to be more of a move for someone to run their political career off of. There are so many worse offenders now, while Steam was basically one of the least gregarious ones. Unfortunately for Steam, it is a corrupt market nowadays, and it's always going to be the least corrupt, private entities who get singled out. You can specially tell its political when it's flying under the "protect the children" flag, gambling in general has gotten out of hand and needs to be toned down, for all ages. Going after one company isn't going to fix this, it needs to be legislation wide.