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Reminder that their CEO unapologetically said that he doesn't think water is a human right.
Other than Costco's CEO, every CEO is just a massive shitburger.
Gabe's not that bad
He’s been holding back half-life 3 his entire life. 100% evil.
I'll change my mind when tf2 will be given a fuck about
A... game from two decades ago? I appreciate them for keeping the game up for this long, dude. The hats are still in my inventory, and the good matches still to be had. I wouldn't think Blizzard is a bad company if they had let SC:BW go, or SOE if they said no more everquest. I think being mad about a game that old is demanding something more than even a good company should be expected to provide.
Counter Strike as a franchise is old as well. They keept making new games and most recently moved CS into Source 2. Why can't they do that to TF2? Oh that's right, the game makes 0 billons of dollars.
What's the solution here?
They used to curate everything heavily, but new studios and indies had a tough time getting their games reviewed and added. So they implemented Greenlight, their user-curation platform so users could tell them what they wanted to see. It just became a huge popularity contest, and getting your game on Steam became about how much marketing you could afford to buy. Now, they let anyone with $100 in, and it's very easy for an indie studio to get their game on Steam, but it's also easy for all of the garbage to get onto Steam.
What solution would you propose, that both lets legitimate indie studios get their games on Steam, especially studios producing games in less popular / niche genres, and also edges out the objective garbage, while not incurring huge costs on developers or using a bunch of Valve employee time to personally curate every submission?
Edit: For that matter...
Steam's refund system is one of the most generous, if not the most generous, in the industry. What are your complaints with it? I'm legitimately curious.
I'm not going to defend trading cards, because they're stupid as hell, but how many have you ever been forced to buy?
You know what Valve hasn't done? Gone public. It would make them - and Gabe personally - an incredible amount of short-term money, but they haven't done it, and thank fuck for that, because it'd be the beginning of the end of the PC gaming industry as we know it.
Edit #2: If you're one of the people downvoting and not commenting, you're a coward.
Plus, in the age of fighting for the right to repair our devices, the Steam Deck is a breath of fresh air. They could have locked it down with a proprietary OS like the Switch and pretty much every other console, but didn't.
Choosing not to make some video games is not immoral or evil.
So then what in your comment about Gabe do you consider an example of him being immortal or evil?
Or are you just blind to the behavior of other CEOs?
Also reminder that the US is the only country in the UN to vote against food being a human right.
USA 🤝 Nestlé
Time to get the guillotines.
Reminder that as much as I am not a Nestlé fan, he never said that.
He said :
“Water is, of course, the most important raw material we have today in the world. It’s a question of whether we should privatize the normal water supply for the population. And there are two different opinions on the matter. The one opinion, which I think is extreme, is represented by the NGOs, who bang on about declaring water a public right. That means that as a human being you should have a right to water. That’s an extreme solution. The other view says that water is a foodstuff like any other, and like any other foodstuff it should have a market value. Personally, I believe it’s better to give a foodstuff a value so that we’re all aware it has its price, and then that one should take specific measures for the part of the population that has no access to this water, and there are many different possibilities there.”
Also, the whole "raahaahaha Nestlé is evil" was propulsed by Coca-Cola and Pepsico because they hated that a non-US company had rights on water in the US. (Water that they wanted to sell in the first place.) Nestlé is no more evil than any food company that is bigger than your local ethnic market. They just suck like every company. Don't buy the propaganda and think that you are better from buying that brand rather than that one. Just say "fuck all of them".
It seems like he said that to me.
Yes but... you got it. That was in the sense of, I can say fuck you all and take as much water as I want for my pool and to clean my car and it would be OK because I have an inconditional right to it...