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But Valve does understand (somewhat uniquely) that doing best by the consumer tends to bring in more money - Gabe often talks about this himself. I guess this i

But Valve does understand (somewhat uniquely) that doing best by the consumer tends to bring in more money - Gabe often talks about this himself. I guess this is one instance where they think more money could be had another way.

mrguyorama 3y ago
And yet they resisted a way to refund games for like a decade until the Australian courts pointed out how illegal that was basically everywhere but the US and they finally conceded. Valve isn't "pro-consumer", but just "less anti-consumer" because it's a terribly low bar. They pull in insane money from skins and stupid skin trades on their marketplace and basically invented the gacha mechanics for Team Fortress Hats and crates, including making it free to play to bring in more people for the whales to lord over.
- zamalek 3y ago
  > more people for the whales to lord over. With purely cosmetic skins?
johnnyanmac 3y ago
>But Valve does understand (somewhat uniquely) that doing best by the consumer tends to bring in more money And they do a good job with their PR pretending they back that statement. They simply know to only pick fights with the little guys, in private, to keep that facade up.