• kittenbridgeasteroid@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    Any company that becomes publicly traded gets turned to the dark side. That’s the factor that does it because they have a legal requirement to do everything they can to maximize profits.

    Trying to sustain perpetual growth will always lead to companies fucking over their customers and employees.

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      1 year ago

      While I feel this is true there are so few privately owned companies that prove this as fact. Holds breath that steam never fucks over its customers

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        I live Valve, but there’s always that nagging bit in the back of my mind reminding me that they can always turn evil in the span of a few years. And the recent debacle with Dolphin doesn’t help

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          Valve is already evil: they locked down their steam client (unacceptable in the times of GOG, and Epic Games) and allow developers to put DRM in their games. Outside of that they were the pioneers of digital gambling with CS:GO and TF2 and using anti-features as a way to entice people to purchase micro-transactions.