• Omega@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Stop bending over backwards to defend corporations. There are no good corporations. Corporations are not your friend. They will never be. They have only their interests in mind. They don’t care about you.

    • mushroommunk@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      8 days ago

      I mean there is some hint of defense in this meme, and people definitely do jump to Valve’s defense, but I read it differently. I read it as a complaint that all these companies keep making the dumbest sounding ideas and are pissing people off. Like Sony removing the PC tag across all their sites today.

      Like yes they’re corporations just trying to make money, but frustrated fans are frustrated and rightly so.

    • TheV2@programming.devEnglish
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      8 days ago

      This might seem unusual, but some weird people out there hate corporations for what they actually do and not because hating corporations is their fashion statement.

      • Tiresia@slrpnk.netEnglish
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        8 days ago

        So you hate Valve for creating gambling infrastructure, for taking a massive slice out of developers’ paychecks on every purchase, and using sales to get people to make FOMO purchases, right? Right?

        • TheV2@programming.devEnglish
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          8 days ago

          I hate them for downplaying the problems of their loot-boxes and for not willing to take any measure against it.

          I do not hate them for taking a massive slice out of developers’ paychecks. A developer must make the choice whether the benefits of Steam are worth that slice or not.

          And uh…I do not feel overwhelmingly happy, when a game on my wish-list is on sale. But I do not hate it…If people buy a game they didn’t want…out of fear of missing out on a sale…then, sorry, but they need to get their shit together and take active efforts to have more control over their money.

        • ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zipEnglish
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          8 days ago

          And artificially pumping up the price of games because steam has to have the lowest regular price (so even if another platform takes less than 30% gouge, they can’t offer the game for less than steam sells it for).

          But people here will jump from the throat of anyone claiming they have any anti consumer policies