Unnecessary and deeply concerning bow to the new “king”

  • MentalEdge
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    Glances at the child gambling enabled by the steam marketplace, an issue being blatantly ignored by Valve leadership.

    Buddy, I don’t know how to tell you this. I love Valve for all the good they do, but they got some serious skeletons, too.

    Valve representatives were asked point blank if the third party gambling sites have a positive influence on their bottom line, and the dude replying sweated bullets for several seconds before nervously going “we… don’t have any data on that” while the rest stared daggers at him.

    Coffeezilla has a recent video on the situation.

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      I love Steam, but thinking about switching to gog over this. Anybody have any ideas how we can let valve know this isn’t okay?

      • Ulrich@feddit.org
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        I mean I always use GoG, if given the option. But there’s almost always no GoG option. Publishers want some form of DRM.