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Tim Sweeney emailed Gabe Newell calling Valve 'you assholes' over Steam policies, to which Valve's COO replied internally 'you mad bro?' (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (39 children)

I am not sympathetic at all to epic, let alone Tim Sweeney, but I do think people are very unwilling to talk about valve’s absolute dominance and how much the current ecosystem is heavily dependent on how magnanimous they are feeling.

We worry about companies that aren’t anywhere near as dominant as valve. Just because their interests align with ours today doesn’t mean they will tomorrow.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (14 children)

Valve isn't dominating an essential industry. They could control 100% of the game market and it would make no difference to anything important.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

Neither is Tiktok. But the US Congress is still freaking out about it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

But social media is an essential industry in how opinions are formed.

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