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Being cautious of a corporation is never a bad thing, but remember: Valve isn’t a public company. They don’t have the same incentives and fiduciary duties that led to the enshittification of most other companies and services.

Ultimately, everything they do is entirely for their own benefit. But, they’re also free to focus on their long-term growth and returns. As long as the leadership doesn’t get changed to a bunch of shit-for-brains golden parachute MBAs, they’re going try to keep their customers happy. It’s good for them, and it’s not terrible for us. Everybody wins.

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index@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I’ll tell you a secret: you don’t need a proprietary launcher to run software

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- wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I’ll tell you something you missed:
  
  Steam’s DRM is notoriously easy to bypass, allowing that. They also don’t force DRM on their platform, it’s entirely developer/publisher opt-in (and they are also free to add additional DRM on top if they wish), and many many releases on Steam run fine directly from the executable without the launcher running.
  
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masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

Ultimately, yes, everything they do is entirely for their own benefit. But, they’re also free to focus on their long-term growth and returns. As long as the leadership doesn’t get changed to a bunch of shit-for-brains golden parachute MBAs, they’re going to want to keep their customers happy. It’s good for them, and it’s not terrible for us. Everybody wins

No, they don’t. Literally every single gamer across the world pays 15% more on every single game purchase, for literally no reason except to make the 1% at Valve even richer.

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- pivot_root@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  
  No, they don’t. Literally every single gamer across the world pays 15% more on every single game purchase, for literally no reason except to make the 1% at Valve even richer.
  
  Do you seriously believe that if a developer pays 15% less in platform fees to Valve, that savings will be passed on to us? Epic Games tried that. Guess what: games still cost us the same there as every other platform.
  
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  - masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    It literally either goes back to the consumer or back to the game developer.
    
    Why are you defending it going to Valve for no reason?
    
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    pivot_root@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Or, more likely, the publisher. But, that’s beside the point.
    
    The average Joe Gamer doesn’t benefit from the developer paying less in sales fees.
    
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