• Khrux@ttrpg.network
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      2 months ago

      I loathe their lootbox system but I’d say valve is better than their rivals in most places. I’d put them far above Epic, Playstation, and Xbox for their games marketplace, far above meta in the VR space and on par with the game developers I respect in basically every aspect except lootboxes.

      I don’t think we should respect, like or trust any large businesses but Valve is certainly the lesser evil of many choices.

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        2 months ago

        You don’t need a proprietary launcher to run software. A company who abduct kids into gambling to make more billions to me sound quite bad.

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      2 months ago

      I don’t think Valve sells much data? But yeah, even Dota 2 has become just another infinite lootbox hellscape, and I have a couple other complaints for them as well.

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        2 months ago

        I don’t think Valve sells much data?

        They keep it for fun

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          I went over and checked their terms earlier and it states they never sell your data and its internal uses are also laid out in thw document that users sign.