Ho est to God, this is a PR slam dunk if they do that. They get to write if the pay out as a donation to charity for tax purposes, get the lime light of them doing something generous for a cancer patient, and can show that they take the few breeches of their malware.qall seriously. Hell they could probably double the pay out and they wouldn’t even notice the loss.
HeyJoe@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
With how much money valve makes, just fix it. Its nothing to them and makes them look good.
MyDarkestTimeline01@lemmynsfw.com 16 hours ago
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
See other comment for why this would be a horrible, horrible idea
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
Incentives. If valve did this, the expectation would be for them to cover any and all future breaches. They don’t have the capability of doing so, and this would incentivise a wave of new malicious programs. Because hey, if you get one into the store, you can now steal a million bucks from your own sockpuppet account, and valve will cover it.
Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 8 hours ago
People would do this on purpose to steal their own money and then beg Valve to pay them lol
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
Exactly