Comment on Why are so many leaders in tech evil?
cyborganism@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I don’t ever remember Bill Gates or Steve Jobs being good people. Or Jeff Bezos, trying to kill bookstores.
The guys behind Google seemed okay at first and I think they really wanted to do good. But the way the company culture was built was toxic.
But in the end it’s all about the greed. As soon as a company becomes public and whose stocks become available on the market, it turns to shit.
Look at how Steam is going well and actually helping personal computing progress. Gabe Newell is doing a great job because he loves that he does and ensures the people who work for him do too.
Ashtear@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Newell also has overseen Valve as one of the pioneers of the most predatory monetization in the video game industry (lootboxes, etc.).
There are no saints at this level.
GiveMemes@jlai.lu 2 months ago
I mean their unwillingness to do anything about the market abuse and rampant child-gambling aside, the lootboxes for purely cosmetic items are one of the least predatory ways to do microtransactions. It’s not like EA where the only way to unlock entire characters in some games is to grind for hundreds of hours or pay, or like COD where they took the lootbox idea and made it actually affect (multiplayer) gameplay
grue@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Damning with faint praise.
GiveMemes@jlai.lu 2 months ago
I mean, in some ways, yeah. In other ways, CS2 is entirely free to play, and the microtransactions fund that, like LoL.
MagicShel@programming.dev 2 months ago
You’re not going to out-compete the sociopaths if you’re a saint. That’s a reality.
beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
And in politics, too!
TheBat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
TBF to Valve, their lootboxes were limited to cosmetic items in a free to play multiplayer games. You can ignore those and it wouldn’t change the gameplay at all.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Bethesda used to be awesome. Until they popularized DLC