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Tengu@Tengu@snug.moe (2026-07-08 21:39:58)
Valve is a corporation that been under scrutiny for working conditions in the past. 

Gabe Newell, the majority owner of Valve, is a billionaire.

Valve is a monopoly because they capitalized and pushed their ways earliest, when you could still get CDs for games, Valve decided to only include a code for their steam platform.
Not including a disc when everyone else was, at a time when internet speeds were slow and even rate-limited, not very consumer friendly.
Not to mention that they sold you a code, that would lock that game to your account and you wouldn't be able to share discs with your friends, meaning that Valve was one of the first companies to commit the "You'll own nothing and be happy."

With other monopolies like Google and its Chrome browser, at least they support Mozilla to show some confidence that they're not a complete monopoly. Valve pushes other companies out of the market with its presence, you know like a monopoly.
You're against greed, capitalism, and monopolies, but you give Valve a pass, that tells on your real position.

Valve is continuously breaking laws and a lot of the 'good' features it has for consumers have been forced on them by governments around the world.

They have implement mechanism in their review system to undermine legitimate protests against the developers.

Valve is greedy, still taking 30% of sales for most games, while giving games that have the highest success a fairer cut, in contrast to other platforms.
It's easy to point at the sales but those ensure the developers get the least amount of money, while Valve doesn't have to care, they still get their 30%. Which is even worse when you consider that developers also have to pay taxes, which could easily be another +30% cut.

Valve uses regional pricing, which is illegal in the EU. The whole argument the Valve-stans come with, is that it's okay because games should be cheaper in areas where people earn less. And you know what, that's not the case, in Poland the prices of g