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Pirates, all of a sudden, discussing PAID options!!? How did we regress that far !? (www.reddit.com)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9aCwCKgkLo

And here are some reason I personally don't like them:

They routinely profit off of crime which they allow on their platforms
Rampant white supremacy goes completely unchallenged
Fuck all quality control
They did NFTs before it was cool
Will not remove hateful media off their platform unless legally forced to
Countless of their games have ties to real life neo-nazi movements (TF2 is especially bad for this)
Their CEO was active on 4chan when they started the company
Predatory FOMO sales tactics which has people buying games they don't even play
EVERYTHING about the steam marketplace
This point was brought up in the video, but extreme institutional racism within the company which bleeds into their games/communities

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

To sum it up: about the same as any platform where people can interact? What's so FOMO about a game being on sale if it's gonna be on sale next week aswell?

I fail to see how Steam Market is so bad, it is not possible to redeem the cash (unless you do it via black market, which is against the TOS), so all money is still in the system. Yeah, it is being used to do unregulated gambling, but it's a regulatory problem which should be handled by the countries to define what gambling is, and shut these sites down. Why the fuck should Steam care?

NFTs in crypto space are a joke, and everywhere else they are basically in any online software, failing to see the point here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Their CEO was active on 4chan when they started the company

This one made me giggle. Who are you, the moral internet police?

Glory to Valve for investing in Proton.