It seems an odd time to attack Valve when there are more egregious companies doing much worse of this sort of thing AND worse things happening in the world.
An extreme analogy would be like when Nazi Germany was rising to power and you sued the Jewish public transportation and train industry for false advertising of their fares.
Does that make sense to you? It’s a bit complex, so I can understand if maybe that’s a bit tough to fully comprehend.
Does that make sense to you? It’s a bit complex, so I can understand if maybe that’s a bit tough to fully comprehend.
Are you attempting to be condescending when you couldn’t figure out whether it was New York city or New York state bringing the suit? How embarrassing for you.
Anyway, what valve is doing is supporting a nascent gambling scene involving 3rd party resales of loot box stuff, and the loot boxes themselves are basically gambling. Its not something that should be normalized. They are profiting off this and there are children involved. Normally I don’t think “save the children” arguments have much weight to them but this is a solved problem: we regulate gambling industries.
Please understand: I use steam. I think its awesome. I’m hyped to play my steam games on Linux. But steam is in the wrong here imo.
And yes, there are bigger evils in the world, but this is still a worthwhile case. I work in the gambling industry. This shit is gambling and it needs regulation.
Maybe I didn’t articulate very clearly…
It seems an odd time to attack Valve when there are more egregious companies doing much worse of this sort of thing AND worse things happening in the world.
An extreme analogy would be like when Nazi Germany was rising to power and you sued the Jewish public transportation and train industry for false advertising of their fares.
Does that make sense to you? It’s a bit complex, so I can understand if maybe that’s a bit tough to fully comprehend.
Are you attempting to be condescending when you couldn’t figure out whether it was New York city or New York state bringing the suit? How embarrassing for you.
Anyway, what valve is doing is supporting a nascent gambling scene involving 3rd party resales of loot box stuff, and the loot boxes themselves are basically gambling. Its not something that should be normalized. They are profiting off this and there are children involved. Normally I don’t think “save the children” arguments have much weight to them but this is a solved problem: we regulate gambling industries.
Please understand: I use steam. I think its awesome. I’m hyped to play my steam games on Linux. But steam is in the wrong here imo.
And yes, there are bigger evils in the world, but this is still a worthwhile case. I work in the gambling industry. This shit is gambling and it needs regulation.