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Valve isn't my friend, no corporation is. They are largely benevolent despite some missteps. I can forgive that, mistakes are made. Steam has been a great boon
by jakebasile 9y ago
Valve isn't my friend, no corporation is. They are largely benevolent despite some missteps. I can forgive that, mistakes are made. Steam has been a great boon to my hobby and I would dearly miss it if it were gone.
- calibas 9y agoI wouldn't call any major corporation benevolent or malevolent, they're effectively amoral entities. They're your "friend" so long as they stand to profit from you.
- jakebasile 9y agoThat's kind of what I meant. Valve's goals mostly align with what I want for PC gaming. I guess it's less "benevolent" and more concurrence.
- marcosdumay 9y ago> They're your "friend" so long as they stand to profit from you. You wouldn't lose much by rewriting the definition of "malevolent" on the dictionary with those words above.
- sakawa 9y agoI don't agree with this. NGOs are primarily meant to do (morally) good things to the society where we live (usually help helpless people), where corporations pursue profit, which is usually not a bad thing unless they break the law (with a misleading behavior with the customers, antitrust, tax evading, and I'd like to say also lobbying). Anyway, Steam users are also paying to consume the game, even if they don't own it. And I really doubt the 2% of their users read even the first paragraph of the EULA contract (where they do specify the above, yep I read it.)