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"Very Positive" review huh. I guess review bombing works both ways?
Who greenlit this. WHO BOUGHT THIS??
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Yeah. Kind of sick of steam's shit, just letting any bullshit on. The furry hitler games? The "your kids weren't really murdered" anti-semetism game? Get your house in order, gabe!
Fucking monopoly capitalism.
Less annoyed by them having an open back-end that any dork can load a game onto than I am that they let their algorithm get gamed to inflate the perceived popularity of this turd.
As soon as you start policing the politics of this shit, you end up with people screaming about how we need to ban Stellaris or Victoria 3 because it promotes the insidious evils of Stalin-Mao-Killed-10-Trillion-Uighur-Jews Communism. I don't begrudge services for simply not wanting to get sucked into these fights.
But one way to avoid this kind of garbage is to keep them from signal boosting their shitty content into the main feed.
One of the nicer things about Steam is that it's not this rigid monopolistic enterprise that demands extortionary fees to host your software and constantly pulls content because some whiney dipshits started a digital book burning movement.
That means turds like this will leak through from time to time. And what guys like Gabe are ultimately banking on is that they suck, nobody really likes them, and they never become a thorn in his side. But, again, that goes out the window when you've got Ann Coulter The Video Game showing up on the NYTs Highest Seller list because she's straw purchasing a thousand copies a week.
Steam is a fairly nice monopoly, but it still has many of the problems of a monopoly. For instance, if the steam matchmaking servers go down vast numbers of games immediately become unplayable. It's not just squeezing people, it's also about the centralization of power around a single point of failure.
I can get the software I find on Steam elsewhere. They aren't exclusive to the platform. And while using Steam's matchmaking service means you're reliant on it staying functional, more often than not the failure is with the game no longer supporting updates to the Steam environment rather than Steam systems simply giving up.
That's not a monopoly, nor is it a problem with Steam as a platform. At least, no more than any networking service has general problems with backwards compatibility and escalating security issues.