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  • BrikoX@lemmy.ziptoGaming@lemmy.zipPROOF: VALVE IS RIPPING EVERY PC GAMER OFF.
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    24 hours ago

    They’re upset with Epic and their exclusives

    facepalm

    <…> their shitty storefronts that have extremely limited features by comparison.

    Have you used Steam in the early days? It took 5 years before they added basic community features.

    Plus we all know the decreased commissions is just their way of attempting to gain market share, as opposed to just making a better product.

    A better product means nothing if you have no users. Case in point all the enshitified platforms that still exist to this day.

    Steam is far from perfect, but it’s also far and away the best option we have.

    Only option. That’s the ultimate issue, which you prefer to ignore.


  • This is not new, but it’s well sourced and easily digestible for most people. The issue is that Valve has de facto monopoly and when Epic Games (even selfishly) tried to address that issue gamers went for their throat instead of cheering.

    There are small storefronts that exist in the background, but they are either indie only like itch.io, Game Jolt or run by a publisher with primarily their catalog like GOG, Origin, Uplay (or whatever it’s called now), Battle.net, etc. And even then many of them eventually become available on Steam because that’s what gamers ask for. People are too stupid to help themselves, so unless some regulations force a change, we are stuck with this.





















  • Twitter, before it was bought by Elon Musk, had a policy regarding hacked materials — but the page is no longer available. A pre-Musk version of the policy, dated 2019, stated that posting or linking to hacked content is prohibited. Under this policy, links to a story by The New York Post about Hunter Biden, the current president’s son, were banned. But in October 2020, Twitter changed its policy to say that it would no longer block hacked materials, after an outcry about how the company had handled the Post story. “Straight blocking of URLs was wrong, and we updated our policy and enforcement to fix,” wrote then-CEO Jack Dorsey.

    So which is it?