Valve brought lootboxes to modern gaming, but no one cares
Valve is why origin exists because they wouldn't let ea sell dlc outside of steam where they didnt get their 30%, ea are greedy bastards who don't want their games on steam!
Valve buys up developers and doesn't let them release a game without a monetization plan, no one cares
Valve does paid mods where valve keeps 70%, no one cares.
Valve black list talent, that's still in effect for over 2 years, because he made a joke about Chinese censorship and masterbation, no one cares.
Valve picks up and drops products like Google, no one cares
But make sure you you get your pc vr ready so you can play a waggle tech demo since they're using the community thirst for a half life to keep their vr investment from being a disaster
Epic offers devs more revenue and pays indie devs to break even funding for launcher exclusively, the internet loses its mind.
Gog, origin, epic, and steam all have in their agreement that they can scan your drives. And only 1 of 4 has an actual plan if the service has to shut down, and I'll give you a hint its not valve. Only 3 of 4 makes the internet lose its mind.
Valve is everything wrong with modern gaming, but they get a free pass because uhhh steam sale? And they do it all as a private company so they can't even blame their practices on needing to appease shareholders.
Valve is responsible for Epic and EA's practices and policies, yup.
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