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I guess I'm just saying most of the complaints with Valve are complaints with capitalism at large. Valve is a business that wants to make profit.
I would fucking love to have a decentralized ptp game hosting and sharing servi... oh that's just piracy. Something that indy devs typically struggle with.
Work is work the need to be paid out of the hands of a massive corporation is just capitalism no matter how you slice it. I'm not going to cheer lead for any capitalist entity as they bicker who fucks their workers least.
Piracy and its interactions with indie development are way more nuanced than that, but sure, yeah, Valve is a corporation like any other corporation. That's all I'm saying.
That their branding work spares them a lot of criticism and judgement from the same industry-standard practices that are seen as an affront elsewhere in both game development and the larger online content creation industry.
Well yeah, most companies get out of criticism via branding. Look at plastics and how it was lied that it was recyclable when most plastic goes straight to landfill.