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That lawsuit against Steam’s 30% cut of game sales is now a class action, meaning many other developers could benefit (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Success is not illegal. In Valve and Gaben’s case, it’s deserved, and probably as clean as you’ll ever see.

Fuck off. Steam is a third party proprietary launcher that promotes gambling to kids. We are on the verge of a climate disaster and people are getting poorer every year that goes by. A fleet of mega yachts is a smack on everyone and the planet.

Making billions off a proprietary app targeted at kids and spending the money on yacht it's not success, it's greed and mental illness. You do not make billions in a clean way.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Steam promotes gambling to kids? Care to elaborate? Are you referring to the playing cards? Because certainly you don't mean CS:GO shit. Because I've never seen that on Steam.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If you're so passionate about the subject, why don't you redirect that energy into making a real change? Join a protest, call a politician, get organized, instead of engaging in tired, empty, useless whataboutisms on the internet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Same goes for you, we are on lemmy on a thread about a lawsuit against steam, go worship billionares in their proprietary platforms.