• Dasnap@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    TBH Steam feels like a ticking timebomb. At some point Valve is going to get a new shite CEO or something and everyone will go “oh…”

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        11 months ago

        If Gabe cares he also has to open source it. A foundation alone is not really a guarantee, considering it’d be below what Mozilla is doing and they have lots of complaints.

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      11 months ago

      Absolutely. I don’t think Steam is exactly malicious (particularly when compared with publicly traded corporations,) but that said the framework is firmly in place to screw over the vast majority of non-console gamers with a snap of the fingers or a meeting of the board.

      The community is slow walking into horse armor (or paid mods if one prefers,) again.

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      11 months ago

      I’ve been thinking about that. It’s the one walled garden I don’t mind, I’ve poured shameful amounts into it but the thought is always there in the background that it can’t go on like this forever.

      At the end of the day I don’t mind too much and just try to enjoy it while it lasts, since worst comes to worst I’ll just have to sacrifice some convenience and dive back into full-time piracy to regain access to the vast majority of the content anyway. The wonders of an open platform!