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In 2018 a group of Valve staff tried to figure out just how efficient they were being—and found they were making more money per head than Apple, Facebook, and nearly every tech giant out there (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Thank you for this. For some reason theres new accounts showing up on lemmy who just start spouting nonsense and lies just to get other people to hate on something thats trying to make a difference.

Steam is great. For all the bad decisions they may have made, the good ones they've made outweigh them by a thousand. Compared to Epic who i believe has done more damage to the gaming industry.

Also lets not forget, Epic was the one pushing for crypto games. Valve comepletely banned those on their store. So who's getting kids addicted to gambling now?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I can see the rationality of it. Once anything gets big enough there are always going to be people who look at the flaws and decide that the thing shouldn't exist or are maybe just upset because they don't face enough scrutiny.

But also covert marketing is definitely a thing. That is to say that people who may have an interest in seeing steam fail or lose market share one day definitely are a presence on social media that is as open as lemmy.

Steam might not be perfect, but despite what the critics would have you believe, steam is still better than a lot of alternatives.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I'm pretty sure Epic has shills or a pr firm doing anti-valve posts. They always use the same handful of talking points. There was never much hate towards valve until these last few years, other than comments on lame sales.