I love how Valve’s strategy is basically just ‘don’t piss off the customers and occasionally do something super fucking cool’, while everyone else in the space seems to be cutting off their nose to spite their face
Valve also gutted their LGBTQIA+ content a few months back. And they have had a MASSIVE nazi infestation basically since they set up message boards because Gabe Newell is infamously libertarian.
So… chill a bit with the glazing. They are better in a lot of ways but they are not our friends.
Shh don’t tell them things that make sense, they want to feel persecution. Jk. But i did hear that most/a lot of those were incest or rape based since that’s super illegal in many countries, so payment processor companies pushed for their removal. Not to mention, many removals were country-specific, not worldwide. Frankly that’s fine by me, not sorry your anime rape and incest games are gone
Listen. I’m not saying these games are wholesome. But if it’s not illegal in my country, I should be able to access it on principle. And frankly there’s very few things it should be illegal to make media about
What items do you think that you have control over? You don’t own anything in your account and it can be taken away for any reason or for no reason at all.
All right, title and interest in and to this Site, the Materials and all associated Proprietary Rights is owned by Valve or its licensors, and no ownership of any of the foregoing items is transferred to you by virtue of this Agreement or Valve’s permitting you to use the Site.
At least they kept some of the old ones, still kinda dumb that to access the old tags system you have to click search with an empty search field of all things. Also kinda weird that they killed old skins so fast, I don’t have anything against using SFP and patching in a new one but it’s gotta be really demotivating for skin creators.
So much this. You can fix blatant bugs sometimes and have people whine because it breaks their flow to have it work correctly.
What do you mean you made it so it no longer freezes for 20 seconds after clicking the Q-button?! I count on that pause to ensure my J-Flame comes at the right time! How dare you?!
I love how Valve’s strategy is basically just ‘don’t piss off the customers and occasionally do something super fucking cool’, while everyone else in the space seems to be cutting off their nose to spite their face
Benefits of not beinp publicly traded.
Overturn Ford v Dodge
Ford V Dodge is a meme
Exactly, just what I wanted to say
Valve also gutted their LGBTQIA+ content a few months back. And they have had a MASSIVE nazi infestation basically since they set up message boards because Gabe Newell is infamously libertarian.
So… chill a bit with the glazing. They are better in a lot of ways but they are not our friends.
You are aware the game removals are due to MasterCard and Visa right?
Shh don’t tell them things that make sense, they want to feel persecution. Jk. But i did hear that most/a lot of those were incest or rape based since that’s super illegal in many countries, so payment processor companies pushed for their removal. Not to mention, many removals were country-specific, not worldwide. Frankly that’s fine by me, not sorry your anime rape and incest games are gone
Listen. I’m not saying these games are wholesome. But if it’s not illegal in my country, I should be able to access it on principle. And frankly there’s very few things it should be illegal to make media about
At best you can argue that Valve will not protect you. Hence, not your friend.
This is a shit take because Valve had no leverage there. It wasn’t their decision
They also let your children gamble, so that’s cool too
I’d rather have control over my digital items than gambling protection that infringes on what can I do with them
What items do you think that you have control over? You don’t own anything in your account and it can be taken away for any reason or for no reason at all.
https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/legal/site-terms-of-use
So your argument is because valve allows me to do whatever with my items, they should allow me less?
If you are a child and one of the things you want to do is gamble, yes.
As we all did when we were young playing pokemon, Mario, Mario party, marbles, mighty beans, hot wheels, etc
I don’t remember playing with real money doing any of that or international crime and extortion rings developing around them.
Yeah but it feels a little more scummy when it’s Visa, Mastercard and American Express
Unless it’s their UI, they love to do pointless changes nowadays. On top of the stuff mentioned by the other replies
any and all UI changes will make people angry
steam has had so few of them compared to idk youtube that, imo it’s fine even if it’s kinda pointless
At least they kept some of the old ones, still kinda dumb that to access the old tags system you have to click search with an empty search field of all things. Also kinda weird that they killed old skins so fast, I don’t have anything against using SFP and patching in a new one but it’s gotta be really demotivating for skin creators.
So much this. You can fix blatant bugs sometimes and have people whine because it breaks their flow to have it work correctly.
What do you mean you made it so it no longer freezes for 20 seconds after clicking the Q-button?! I count on that pause to ensure my J-Flame comes at the right time! How dare you?!
Obligatory xkcd