Private companies are - often - not driven by pure greed. The people work hard for their company to be successful and they are much less likely to fuck it all over with a stupid move.

Public companies, however, are controlled by a bunch of money motivated monkeys that couldn't give a rats ass about a company's future. They'll bleed it all dry and go to the next company.

[–] RelativityRanger@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

Dude, Steam is selling games you don't own. How greedy is that?

[–] zymagoras777@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Like most game platforms do, except Valve actually looks after their customers.

[–] Kystael@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The gambling problem and grey market they created with their marketplace and their Counter Strike crates is an issue.

[–] Realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zip 0 points 23 hours ago

I never understood how that is valves problem tbh. That's like being mad at football players for sports gambling. The second you have a somewhat open market, some people will abuse it.

Also, what's valve supposed to do? They bab the trade bots if they can find them, they have sued the operators of those portals in the past - so what do you realistically expect from them now? Completely close the market just so some people can't gamble anymore?

[–] RelativityRanger@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 day ago

argumentum ad populum, it's a thing, look it up

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