Because Gaben is a libertarian fuckwit.
Fuck his greedy ass. And fuck G*mers defending his monopoly.
frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 1 day ago
Why do anything to appeal to fucking Russian regime bullshit? Tell them to fuck off! Cowards.
GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 1 day ago
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Steam always chose the path of least resistance when it comes to dealing with law maker demands even when there were more consumer friendly ways available. This is not surprising at all.
echodot@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Because then they’ll block steam in Russia.
I’m not defending Valve here they need to have more values, but realistically this game was never going to be available for sale in Russia. No matter what they did the game would be available in Russia one way or the other.
Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
What’s wrong with Steam getting blocked in Russia? It’s not like Valve allows direct purchases by russian users.
Russian users losing access to their libraries without VPN is their own problem. They are responsible for their government, no one else.
Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Um, what? Most Russians that browse Steam do not endorse the regime (can’t check, but probably so given what happens in the West)
Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
I strongly disagree, the Workers & Resource DLC link can provide some insights on this; russian language reviews talk about “getting salo for the Ukrainians” and whataboutism about Palestine (like they care about Palestine, if anything most russians tend to support Israel). There is lots of anti-Ukrainian, pro-invasion russian language commentary on Steam.
We’ve lived in russia as an expat family for many years, we left as soon as our finances allowed us to (this was was before the russians invaded Georgia in 2008).
Then there is broader research on russian support for the full scale invasion; even using demographic splits (e.g. people aged 18 to 24, highly educated russians, high income russians), all demographic segments show at least majority support for the full scale invasion (with almost all segment groups showing at strong majority support and very commonly overwhelming majority support).
With respect to arguments that “people are afraid to show their true views”; there are multiple research pieces that specifically account for preference falsification. Some russians do hide their preferences, but this group is so small that even with preference falsification adjustments you have a strong majority support (65%+) for the full scale invasion. That’s specifically the full scale invasion (i.e. 2022), with respect to the annexation of Crimea, preference falsification was found to be not statistically significant with the respect to the baseline ~85% support for the annexation of Crimea.
drmoose@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
If you ever get to play csgo or dota2 you’re likely to change this opinion
hannesh93@feddit.org 1 day ago
Ever heard of “bread and games” to keep the population docile and stop revolts?
TurnOnTheSunflower@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
If he’s right, I understand you. But generally you should be very careful believing stats without sources/citing.