• kitnaht@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    You’re kidding, right? They’re the only ones safeguarding the industry and making it so you’re not watching ads once every 3 minutes to get a few more coins in your PC games.

    They provide one of the best distribution networks in the PC industry, and they constantly stand on the side of the players vs corporate interests.

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      22 days ago

      Let’s not whitewash their history. A lot of concessions they only gave up due to legal challenges, and then there’s the whole child gambling thing.

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          22 days ago

          Their refund policies only came about because different governments sued them. Check out either coffeezilla or People Make Games on CS:GO loot boxes, the latter of which has interviews with plenty of the victims of this system that Valve allows to continue because it’s so lucrative for them.