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Coffeezilla does a third part of his CS:GO gambling expose...where he squarely puts the blame on Valve (www.youtube.com)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Valve refused to comment for the video.

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[+] [email protected] -7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

They offer a free operating system anyone can use that's name after their company and designed to play games sold through the included store for a 30% cut of sales.

What saints!

If Google did something similar, I bet everyone would say they're a great company and not at all evil....

Gabe is a billionaire monopolist, not your friend.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Ask linux Kernel maintainer or mesa, Vulkan, wine etc. what they profit from valves cooperation. Yes, valve is very involved. Yes, Google and the like also contribute improvements from time to time, but for the most part it remains with their proprietary accessories that only they themselves benefit from. Gabe has also built up a lot of things to earn this. As I said, competitors are always welcome to improve their launchers and build a backbone comparable to that of valve.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

My point is that SteamOS is similar to Android from a business perspective.

They're making an OS for free that anyone can install, but they're doing it to get people to buy software from Steam.

Yeah, you don't have to use Steam as your software provider, but Android users don't have to use the Play Store.

Guess where almost all apps are purchased on Android? Valve wants to be the Google of the mobile PC gaming world.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

You said it! Valve actively supports OSS and that in many projects from which people beyond games also benefit (yes, they also exist). That Valve with Proton has just made sure that MS monopoly position is no longer so secure (oh wonder that in the most popular games devs then simply turn off linux support in anti-cheat...). ). You can certainly criticize a lot, but valve gives back a lot of things differently. Just no other Play Störe alternatives because the competition only complains, offers a junk launcher with dubious methods to offer a game for free every week... ( no risk but because of fixed amount possibly significantly less the developers... besides, the money comes from fortnite addicted children ). epic ubisoft ea use dirty methods anyway and known 30%... what they are hiding is that the 30% is the case with steam keys. however, they also have the possibility to link it to their own store with their own keys while it would be listed for free on steam only they would have to do without any steam feature ( anti cheat, workshop, forum, support, download from steam depotetc. Oh and have enough servers themselves regarding downloads.

By the way, about your comparison with android... Take a look at their Chromebooks. Have fun gaming!xD