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[-] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

the solution to that is taxes, not suing successful business one at a time.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Or breaking them or nationalization so profit goes to everyone instead of a single guy.

[-] TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago

And you want to start with Valve, which is one of the smaller game companies and is one of the few players not guilty of buying up their competition, instead of Sony, Microsoft, other Big Tech players, media conglomerates like Disney, ISPs like Comcast or AT&T, or meat distributors who are price fixing algorithmicly?

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Who said I want to start with them?

[-] stardust@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

Why even buy games period? Why risk giving money to any of them since things that become popular risk making the people selling them to become wealthy? Not like indies are immune to it looking at Minecraft becoming too popular that too many people wanted to buy it making one person then a corporation wealthy, so why not just not buy period to prevent the issue from even becoming a possibility?

The best solution is prevention. Don't buy anything.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago
[-] stardust@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago
[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not on Steam and not in ways that enrich billionaires. If devs don't make their game available another way then too bad, they chose to deal with the devil, I don't have to encourage them, won't keep me from playing their games through other means or by getting them through giveaways.

[-] stardust@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

So which non billionaire associated company or publisher.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ever heard of... Indie Games? Itch.io?

[-] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago

Average sh.itjust.works IQ be like

[-] nore@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

bruh, don't lump me with this idiot.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago
[-] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah bud Steam having decent game sales is literally like a corrupt government contract boss gets a pay rise at a corpo dumping sewage into rivers and polluting drinking water and making people sick.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Stop defending a billionaire and his company, you'll never be one of them, all billionaires need to go, none of them became one by being moral, if it was any other company you would be talking about guillotines.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Pretty freaking high to realize that you must be an idiot to defend the people who are the opposite end of the food chain.

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