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I think Steam might be the only private company in this.
Really says a lot.
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It does.
Private companies are - often - not driven by pure greed. The people work hard for their company to be successful and they are much less likely to fuck it all over with a stupid move.
Public companies, however, are controlled by a bunch of money motivated monkeys that couldn't give a rats ass about a company's future. They'll bleed it all dry and go to the next company.
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Dude, Steam is selling games you don't own. How greedy is that?
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least socialist lemmy user
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Like most game platforms do, except Valve actually looks after their customers.
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The gambling problem and grey market they created with their marketplace and their Counter Strike crates is an issue.
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I never understood how that is valves problem tbh. That's like being mad at football players for sports gambling. The second you have a somewhat open market, some people will abuse it.
Also, what's valve supposed to do? They bab the trade bots if they can find them, they have sued the operators of those portals in the past - so what do you realistically expect from them now? Completely close the market just so some people can't gamble anymore?
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argumentum ad populum, it's a thing, look it up
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What, like ebay and amazon selling stuff they don't own? They all get a commission for marketing, not all of the money.
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Digital companies sell digital goods and services. Shocker :o
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Very true, sometimes they are also motivated by their hatred of gay and trans people.
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Ye every private business hates them gays and trans people and wants to see them dead.
Go outside, touch some grass you lunatic.
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Koch Industries and Purdue Pharma salute you in your service to attempted sanewashing of private corporations.
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Fuck them too.
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