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Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" (www.pcgamesn.com)
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[–] 333 points 8 months ago* (4 children)

I love how Valve's strategy is basically just 'don't piss off the customers and occasionally do something super fucking cool', while everyone else in the space seems to be cutting off their nose to spite their face

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  • [–] 161 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Benefits of not beinp publicly traded.

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  • [–] -3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Valve ceo just added a $500 million mega yacht to his fleet. Valve true benefit is that thanks to window they managed to build a monopoly on videogames distribuition and that their customers are kids addicted to videogames.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    and that their customers are kids addicted to videogames

    TIL I'm a "kid" despite being 44 years old

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  • [–] -1 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    15 years old you probably wouldn't be here on lemmy

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    I'm here on lemmy because I'm a reddit refugee, I spent almost 12 years there but came here when they did their little API shakedown shitshow. Lemmy is good enough for me, despite there being the occasional troll, like you seem to be.

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  • [–] 76 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    Valve also gutted their LGBTQIA+ content a few months back. And they have had a MASSIVE nazi infestation basically since they set up message boards because Gabe Newell is infamously libertarian.

    So... chill a bit with the glazing. They are better in a lot of ways but they are not our friends.

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  • [–] 60 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

    You are aware the game removals are due to MasterCard and Visa right?

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    At best you can argue that Valve will not protect you. Hence, not your friend.

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  • [–] 31 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    They also let your children gamble, so that's cool too

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I'd rather have control over my digital items than gambling protection that infringes on what can I do with them

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    What items do you think that you have control over? You don't own anything in your account and it can be taken away for any reason or for no reason at all.

    https://www.valvesoftware.com/en/legal/site-terms-of-use

    All right, title and interest in and to this Site, the Materials and all associated Proprietary Rights is owned by Valve or its licensors, and no ownership of any of the foregoing items is transferred to you by virtue of this Agreement or Valve's permitting you to use the Site.

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  • [+] -14 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    As we all did when we were young playing pokemon, Mario, Mario party, marbles, mighty beans, hot wheels, etc

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  • [+] -7 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Shh don't tell them things that make sense, they want to feel persecution. Jk. But i did hear that most/a lot of those were incest or rape based since that's super illegal in many countries, so payment processor companies pushed for their removal. Not to mention, many removals were country-specific, not worldwide. Frankly that's fine by me, not sorry your anime rape and incest games are gone

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

    don't piss off the customers

    Unless it's their UI, they love to do pointless changes nowadays. On top of the stuff mentioned by the other replies

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  • [–] 21 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    any and all UI changes will make people angry

    steam has had so few of them compared to idk youtube that, imo it's fine even if it's kinda pointless

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    So much this. You can fix blatant bugs sometimes and have people whine because it breaks their flow to have it work correctly.

    What do you mean you made it so it no longer freezes for 20 seconds after clicking the Q-button?! I count on that pause to ensure my J-Flame comes at the right time! How dare you?!

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    At least they kept some of the old ones, still kinda dumb that to access the old tags system you have to click search with an empty search field of all things. Also kinda weird that they killed old skins so fast, I don't have anything against using SFP and patching in a new one but it's gotta be really demotivating for skin creators.

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