Comment on Valve ban advertising-based business models on Steam, no forced adverts like in mobile games

• haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Two things can be true at once:

  1. valve so far took tremendous care of the people using their product. They have outclassed afaik every other billion dollar company in the world in terms of listening to their customers and not exploiting them to hell (as others do).
  2. billionaire companies are cancer. If gabe ever gives up valve (through death or whatever), we are at the mercy of a monopolist that can extract as much as they want.

  My conclusion: force companies to behave like valve does now, but forever. Let them make money without exploiting people. And in case if valve: break any monopoly.

  Down with shareholder value.

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  • Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    There’s a very good bill for achieving this result by a senator from my state, which requires companies to elect their board members through employees.

    wbur.org/…/warren-co-determination-capitalism-act

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    • Agrivar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      She’s my senator as well, and I love what she’s doing - but THAT bill is ~7 years old and dead in the water given the current administration. :-/

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      • Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        There’s an alternative, to make it popular with the American people. Republicans look bad to their constituents each time they vote against policies that would relieve the American people as a whole, such as net neutrality and healthcare for all.

        Make some noise about it! Make it known that Democrats fight for everyone, and that a certain sect is very vocally rejecting that fight.

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    • haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      That would be a great solution. Another would be to put quotas of employees, customers, owners and the community (people living around a plant for example) in there. Just an idea though.

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• Zacryon@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  If the “win for everyone” includes shipping a game as microtransaction-based instead of ad-based, I doubt it’s really a win. Microtransactions usually come with dark patterns and rely on techniques from the gambling industry.

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