Steam may be a very successful business, but they’re still the seed crystal for a whole ecosystem of gambling that preys on addicts and children with the whole CSGO loot box thing. Take a wild guess what forms of addiction have the highest suicide rates?

Fuck Valve. Fuck all Corps. No business has ever nor can ever, genuinely give a shit about anything other than increasing profit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

The crates where fine in TF2 …. Before CSGO got made, but due to CSGO and other games it’s an issue.

But while you consider it gambling, most laws don’t. It’s currently only banned in NL and BE to open lootboxes on Steam and in NL we have legal online gambling for 18+, but Valve won’t gives you access to the lootboxes.

The point is that one laws need to be more clear about what is gambling and what isn’t without ruining anything that uses randomizers and/or loot and there needs to be a better way to validate people’s age without hurting their privacy.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sounds like a systemic issue...

*glances at capitalism" 👀

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Depends if the business it publicly owned.

I think valve are mostly fair to consumers. The money they make from gamers is doing some good in the linux sphere.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I thought it was pretty well known Valve is privately owned.

They make money selling off of gamers by selling games. They take advantage of and enable systemic abuse of, I’ll say it again, addicts and children. I’m not saying they aren’t also fair to their customers in most of their dealings and that they aren’t doing good things for the Linux ecosystem. But we’re also talking way more money than I bet you’re thinking. Gabe’s uber rich person kink is super-yachts. Multiple, super-yachts. You can appear and behave with decency and still contribute to the detriment of society at the same time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

Get lawmakers to make a law about it and properly work it out. Valve is banning loot boxes even for people who are legally allowed to gamble.

The issue is that it is hard to legally define whaf a lootbox is and stop it without stopping things like TCG drafts and RGB loot from bosses or enemies on games.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm just happy to see a meme template from Half Baked.

Chappelle's old stuff is fire

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

Accurate and warranted.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 14 hours ago

don't forget valve gets minors (and adults) into gambling.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wouldn't have started even dual booting Linux if it wasn't for Steam after being pleasantly surprised with my Steam Deck played most of my Steam library. It's the primary why I intend to get AMD gpu next time around for the better driver support, but that won't be for a few years.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (54 children)

i wont delete my steam account, but lord gaben wont get my money anymore, even if hes awesome. :( sorry gabe.

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