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... Spoiler for you, but Valve is a shitty company.
Edit: whoosh the fanbois are out there! We don't share the same value if you think it's ok for 10 years old to become gambling addicts because of Valve's practices.
I deleted my Reddit account because it is increasingly becoming an echo chamber cesspool of extreme centrism. I was hoping Lemmy would be somehow better with people more prone to discuss. Ho, well
i can see why you are banned, posting misinformation/disinformation with nothing to back it uo with.
https://youtu.be/v6jhjjVy5Ls
Now I'll wait for you to apologize and and acknowledge you did not have any idea of what you were talking about before commenting. I'll let you throw day, so you can go through the entire series.
it's been like that for years, you act like valve was the masterminded the gambling sites, crazy.
Ho, so because it's been like that, it's ok?
Edit: don't even bother answering, you're a clown.
How are they shitty. You can't claim their bad without explaining why, I think you just don't like the fact some people actually respect a company rather then hate on them like the rest.
Already done and don't assume nothing of me.
name your top 5 good companies
Irrelevant.
Maybe just maybe it's because it's not as black or white as you make it seem? Especially talking about a company that did so much for Linux and looking at what their competition is doing....
So it's ok for you to have 10 years old developing a gambling habit and potentially ruining their live, because hey they are pushing Linux in gaming?
I feel like you're straw-manning here.
I never said it's okay. All I'm saying is that a mega-corporation can simultaneously exploit psychological loopholes for profit (loot boxes) while actively pushing open-source ecosystems (Linux), providing great value to consumers and fighting other pc gaming monopolies (Microsoft). Look at the whole picture.
Do you consider that it is morally acceptable to push thousands of kids into gambling addiction because you are doing more than Microsoft for Linux in the gaming world?
So you're saying that since a company is reprehensible in one area, all their other accomplishments should be judged accordingly?
Makes sense to me.
Answer the question.
Did valve create the gambling games you mention?
Yes.