• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    If you just pay attention more than the average person you quickly realize that he’s already a shitty billionaire.

    Steam underage gambling profits him directly.

    He owns a yacht collection while his clients can’t afford to own the place they live in. How’s that for an environmental impact?

    His reaction to George Floyd’s murder wasn’t that Valve should release a statement as he considered that problematic (source), instead he gave each employee 10k to spend however they felt like. Where I used to work we used to call that a “shut the fuck up”. Employees are complaining about something? Here’s 10k each for them to shut the fuck up. Hell, they could spend that money to finance far right groups if they wanted, Newell didn’t care!

    Women employees with managerial positions at Valve? What women employees?

    Valve takes a 30% cut but Newell is a billionaire, which means they could afford to take a much smaller cut, he could have hundreds of millions instead and the devs could have more money in their pockets.

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      I always get shat on for saying they do unregulated gambling, including to minors

      People be really defending Valve

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          4 days ago

          Eh, probably. They always state how competitors do this and that, and all the good Valve brought with Steam.

          Which is true, but they’re blinded by this. Google also brought a lot of good, and bad.

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        5 days ago

        People be really defending Valve

        They defend Microsoft and Windows for the same reason. It’s their beloved gaming platform