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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

To add one last thing, even if every part of your discussion lends to legitimate concerns, the statement as you originally made

Valve abducts kids into gambling, mine people data, promotes DRMs and proprietary software. All of that out of geed and seeking profits.

Is just alarmist bs, which is transparently and intentionally trying to make Steam look bad about things that are loosely related to that statement at best.

Valve abducts kids into gambling

Valve isn't abducting anybody. Game devs are encouraging gambling like behaviors

mine people data

Data you either opt out of the collection of, give freely to everyone all the time, or is illegal to sell

promotes DRMs and proprietary software

"allows" does not equal "promotes"

All of that out of geed and seeking profits.

They exist to make money. Steam costs money to operate. This is not controversial. Every single game company and storefront does else they would release their products for free.

I didn't mean for this to become another long comment. I think it's absurd that you are nitpicking tiny aspects that are theoretical or ethical in origin, most of which steam doesn't directly control anyway, and playing that off as steam being some evil big bad corporation. It's dishonest, full stop