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Valve faces a £656 million lawsuit in the UK for 'overcharging 14 million PC gamers'
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Valve does plenty of unethical stuff, you're right, but the store isn't really it. Go after them for their shady loot box gambling and really predatory monetization in f2p games that creates secondary gambling markets. It's insane.
Valve has actual blood it's hands and you're complaining about the legitimate business front that covers for a deeply profitable and unethical core.
Loot boxes suck but I'd argue valve is still one of the better approaches. Makers of skins get cuts of sales, Dotas sales help the international prize pool to an extent, and it doesn't lock you into a treadmill just to unlock gameplay elements.
Every other company seems to be doing the same but somehow even worse.
I disagree. There's a deeply unethical core built into Steam that is distinct to it. Since you can sell your loot drops for actual money, they are more literally scratch tickets than your standard loot boxes.
https://youtu.be/eMmNy11Mn7g?si=u7fNSQI8WV8JNd4m
I don't know, I'm all for keeping people away from addictive behaviors and would rather micro transactions not be a thing at all full stop - but allowing users to get money out of games they have already invested in is also a benefit, so it feels weird to single out the one option that provides consumer value. Don't play CS anymore? Sell the AK Fire serpent you unboxed for 2.50 back in 2014 and buy yourself a steam deck and keep a gift card for a few games. Or a new set of skins in whatever game your playing now is.
As far as the API goes, Im pretty unfamiliar so Im not sure what responsibilities a company has when using their site as a login to another site. There's porn sites that allow me to sign in with Facebook / Gmail, if someone uploads CSAM to that site do those sites have a duty in some way?