Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee"

• Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  >Open source, publicly available tool to aid in Linux adoption

  >“some[thing] to expand their control over the games industry”

  Found the Sweeney fanboy. Just because Timmy-boy can’t install kernel-level malware on Linux doesn’t mean Gabe Newell is going to use it to conquer the Earth, bud.

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  • sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Steam also places DRM and states in their EULA that you pay to license the title and not own it. Looks like your a Steam fanboy. We shouldn’t be fanboys of anything but simply notice the good and bagld companies do because either way they aren’t our friends

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    • ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Developers place DRM, that’s not s requirement of Steam publishing. Also, 99% of digital stores state you’re only buying a license. That’s a problem with modern society, not Steam.

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      • sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        So Steam is part of the problem. They can simply not have that in their EULA. With that attitude no change will ever happen for the better

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    • Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They demonized all actions of Valve, for the sake of defending Epic, even to the point of painting something that aids Linux adoption across the board as if it were a secretive, locked-down part of Steam’s environment. I pointed out the failure in that. Yeah, totally the same. 🙄

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      • sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Bronzebeard is being objective and certainly not taking the position you’re generalizing here

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      • Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That’s not remotely what I did, and I weep for the future if this is the level of reading miscomprehension we have to deal with.

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  • Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why are you acting like there aren’t steam games with additional drm?

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    • ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Steam doesn’t require DRM to publish on their platform.

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      • Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Neither does epic.

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  • Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Again with the complete and utter lack of ability to understand that nuance exists, and both can be bad people doing self interested things, and one bad person saying something correct does not mean you agree with everything they stand for just because you agree with the one smart thing.

    Like more than one of you are stuck in this moronic binary mindset. It’s pathetic.

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• lofuw@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  🤡

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