Many (most?) of the steam discussion board mods are hardcore lefties, too. They must love to infiltrate and subvert everything.
When Stellaris came out with one of their more recent patches, which pretty much removed White human models from the game, they censored every comment critical of the change. You could be as diplomatic and careful with your wording as possible, your comment would still get censored. However, every single comment attacking anyone critical of the change, with the most vile and vitriolic language possible, remained up.
I tried to get a refund for the game, but Steam refused. Just stopped playing after that.
Steam's effective monopoly over PC gaming is an issue that needed to be addressed 10 years ago. They have too much power and too many people willing to defend them for free.
Well, we can thank Epic for setting that problem back another 10 years by making competition look way worse and the people trying to address it look worse by association with Epicshills.
I still refuse to make an account with them. Sadly, valve is the only one who cares about Linux. Gog gives not a damn, epic actively fights against. Kinda SOL here.
I think centralization of platforms invariably leads to corruption, becoming antithetical to the purpose of it. People usually go along with it initially, because of the convenience and apparent efficiency. However, as it becomes corrupt, it loses convenience and efficiency.
Corruption of platforms and institutions is more rapid in the West's apathy, falling toward collapse, and rampant systemic corruption. Even seemingly benign institutions like gaming are being affected. This is because foundational ideas of civilization have been changed, through the natural rise and fall of civilizations, as well as intentional brainwashing through globalist controlled schools and media. A change of foundational ideas affects the entire system, with wide sweeping consequences far beyond what most people would consider. The people in power also infiltrate, corrupt, and weaponize any medium which can be used to control people, like gaming.
I have a philosophy that purchasing games is only expected when you make it a better alternative to piracy. If piracy is easier/safer/more convenient, game companies like Steam should expect people to go that route.
In late January, a Steam user posted a negative review for the game Warlander, warning potential buyers about the shady anti-cheat system the game was using, the apparent problems being intrusive data collection and difficult removal after the game itself had been uninstalled (the review text is no longer available). This review stayed on top as the most helpful review for nearly three months, which must have been a big thorn in the side for the developer and the publisher.
Apparently the Steam moderator categorized the negative review as "attempting to scam users or other violations of Steam's Rules & Guidelines", which meant that all those 2439 people (plus people who have it 437 awards) got their accounts restricted for 30 days, during this time none of them can up- or downvote any Steam reviews at all.
If any Valve employees actually look at this, it will get reversed, and the moderator is likely getting canned. Using the "scam" causus belli here doesn't hold water, and banning everyone who marked it useful was likely an unintended side effect.
Shocking anti-consumer behaviour. Valve is too comfortable, they could really stand to be taken down a few notches.
Many (most?) of the steam discussion board mods are hardcore lefties, too. They must love to infiltrate and subvert everything.
When Stellaris came out with one of their more recent patches, which pretty much removed White human models from the game, they censored every comment critical of the change. You could be as diplomatic and careful with your wording as possible, your comment would still get censored. However, every single comment attacking anyone critical of the change, with the most vile and vitriolic language possible, remained up.
I tried to get a refund for the game, but Steam refused. Just stopped playing after that.
Steam's effective monopoly over PC gaming is an issue that needed to be addressed 10 years ago. They have too much power and too many people willing to defend them for free.
Well, we can thank Epic for setting that problem back another 10 years by making competition look way worse and the people trying to address it look worse by association with Epicshills.
I still refuse to make an account with them. Sadly, valve is the only one who cares about Linux. Gog gives not a damn, epic actively fights against. Kinda SOL here.
They competition is the answer now restrictions on them. It's not Valves fault their competitors suck so bad.
But I kept getting told they totally aren't a monopoly
The subscription model was NEVER a good idea.
In before Fishy comes in full throttle defending this.
I think centralization of platforms invariably leads to corruption, becoming antithetical to the purpose of it. People usually go along with it initially, because of the convenience and apparent efficiency. However, as it becomes corrupt, it loses convenience and efficiency.
Corruption of platforms and institutions is more rapid in the West's apathy, falling toward collapse, and rampant systemic corruption. Even seemingly benign institutions like gaming are being affected. This is because foundational ideas of civilization have been changed, through the natural rise and fall of civilizations, as well as intentional brainwashing through globalist controlled schools and media. A change of foundational ideas affects the entire system, with wide sweeping consequences far beyond what most people would consider. The people in power also infiltrate, corrupt, and weaponize any medium which can be used to control people, like gaming.
It sucks, but it's unsurprising what's happening.
I have a philosophy that purchasing games is only expected when you make it a better alternative to piracy. If piracy is easier/safer/more convenient, game companies like Steam should expect people to go that route.
If any Valve employees actually look at this, it will get reversed, and the moderator is likely getting canned. Using the "scam" causus belli here doesn't hold water, and banning everyone who marked it useful was likely an unintended side effect.