He could direct his company to stop targeting kids with addictive gambling mechanics and looking the other way regarding grey-market resellers.
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Demdaru@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoI mean, it’s hard to hate on someone who pays his people well, gives fun benefits, cultivates chill working culture and is overall simply a chill guy and whose big, fat marketshare comes from actually working for the customer.
Yeah. He could probably pay better or give more of his wealth into the society. Hell, prolly even should. But the fact is that among anyone else with that title, Gabe looks like a goddamn saint.
nomy@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
SnortsGarlicPowder@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Valve doesn’t make money from keys on the grey market. Only on games bought through Steam, what do you want them to do?
They are the pioneers of lootboxes. No denying that.
Rose@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
cultivates chill working culture
Demdaru@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
First of all, admittedly, watched half of it. But also I don’t see the point. Yeah, they have problems coming from their structure, but these seem kinda miniscule compared to any other game company. I mean come on, people looking up to more experienced colleagues for advice was shown there as a problem “because they have more to say”. Or the bias in hiring…that even ex employees seem to understand that it simply happened due to their requirements about experience and such. The video was informative, but…pretty much shortly after mentioning what they aim for when hiring, one could easily foresee most of consequences.
Although damn, the pressure with these must feel enormous. And also…they really seem to say a lot of it up front so where’s problem?
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
He’s anti union, valve employees aren’t allowed to unionize. Also seems cool with making money off all the games made by studios who are also underpaying and over working employees
Demdaru@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Anti union sucks. But about money - yeah, Steam is a game selling platform. If they tried to avoid selling games by studios underpaying their workers, they’d evolve into indie game selling platform. Most AAA studios underpay folk, do they not?
endeavor@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
You own shit made in china. You are benefitting from genocide, slave labour, child labour. You are evil.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
endeavor@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
exactly what something who loves slave labour making their products would say.