Comment on When we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No?
nomy@lemmy.zip 6 hours agoI understand and don’t necessarily disagree with any of that but let’s not pretend GabeN is anything other than another greedy billionaire.
Comment on When we eat the billionaires, we should spare Gabe Newell? No?
nomy@lemmy.zip 6 hours agoI understand and don’t necessarily disagree with any of that but let’s not pretend GabeN is anything other than another greedy billionaire.
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
His actions seem to indicate he is in fact not the same as other billionaires
nomy@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
What actions are you referring to? I appreciate Steams contributions to the Linux ecosystem but that’s about it, and even that is completely self serving. Locking everything on their platform behind DRM? Taking a 30% cut of everything sold after monopolizing the PC gaming market?
He’s a big proponent of microtransactions and was one of the first to introduce lootcrate mechanics for skins. Skins that you can buy/sell with real cash off-site. There’s a billion dollar online casino ecosystem where you use skins as chips to play games that’s basically targeted at kids. Valve is completely aware of it and it breaks their ToS but they profit greatly so they look the other way and continue to push shitty scratch off ticket loot boxes to kids. There really is no such thing as an ethical billionaire.
Unless you know about some great philanthropic work he’s doing?