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If nothing else, their treatment of talent on Dota 2 has been a black mark on their record for some time now.
I have infinitely more trust in Valve/Steam than I do in Polygon.
No corporation is your friend.
Yeah, it has been frustrating seeing no-one who has large audience care about this.Freaking finally someone writes an article about this.
Corporations aren't your friend, and neither are "journalism" sites driven by click-bait practices.
No, it's the guy behind Point & Clickbait. Which, frankly, is obvious after reading this heap of conspiracy theory bullshit.I am not going to click but tell me, is it Ben Kuchera?
No monopoly is a good monopoly.The alternatives are Origin, Microsoft and Uplay.
Steam is the best Monopoly we could wish for given the other actors.
You know how shitty person was Mother Theresa, right?Yep. Steam/Valve is far from being a saint, but compared to Polygon they are Mother Theresa.
I have infinitely more trust in Valve/Steam than I do in Polygon.
What? No.
is there like some hidden message in these articles that say the opposite? Do I have to dip it in water to see "WE LOVE YOU PLEASE READ US?" or is this just drive-by shit?
Corporations aren't your friend, and neither are "journalism" sites driven by click-bait practices.
Yep. Steam/Valve is far from being a saint, but compared to Polygon they are Mother Theresa.
No corporation is your friend.
Umm, no? Polygon is fairly reputable when they're not shitposting. Their longform stuff is actually really darned good.We listening polygon now? I though it was pretty much banned as a source here.
Guys, we get it. You don't like Polygon. Why not respond to the content of the article instead of drive-by shitposting because your best corporate friend took some criticism.
You know how shitty person was Mother Theresa, right?
We listening polygon now? I though it was pretty much banned as a source here.
It's not my friend or my family.
Is just my home, good or bad, it was always here and it will be..
If anything, some of these posts are really exemplifying just how deep and irrational Valve loyalism runs.
Steam is essential for videogames and companies to thrive.
Polygon is not.
Guys, we get it. You don't like Polygon. Why not respond to the content of the article instead of drive-by shitposting because your best corporate friend took some criticism.
Disagree. They don't have a fiduciary duty to try to make as much money as possible as every public company does. Of course they're trying to make a profit, you're acting like being a for-profit company is an inherently bad thing.That's not true at all. Valve is a for profit corporation that is trying to make as much profit as possible. The fact that they don't answer to shareholders makes them have to publicly disclose much less than companies with shareholders and that may actually make them more dangerous.
except the client is awful.Origin is pretty good as a platform.
Polygon said:The imaginary Gabe, the one in our memes, is a cultural defense mechanism, a happy fiction we all invented to make us feel better about the fact that we were, and remain, willing partners in installing PC gaming's biggest, most opaque, exploitative monopoly one which we know deep down doesn't care about us at all.
Maybe it's time for all of us to wake up.
They are exploiting their workshop creators and take pretty much as little responsibility as they can all around, so yes
If anything, that's the exact opposite of what should be happening. Polygon's opinion articles are legendary for being an extremely unreputable source of information.It's an opinion piece which we can post those. Can't be used as a reputable source for information though.
You don't have an issue with windows store which only sells keys through itself and allows no completion (Devs can't gen keys), actively blocks mods through the way it encrypts content and you complain about Steam?! Yeah...There's hyperbole here but the main point is valid - people have an almost religious attachment to Valve and Steam, to the point where it hinders rational assessment of the alternatives.
I get the desire to have all your friends and games in one place, but Origin has become a pretty good client by itself these days. GOG is pretty good and I don't have any issues with the Windows Store for my Play Anywhere titles. I don't spend a lot of time in uPlay because I don't play many Ubi Soft games.
As long as the game is available on PC and I can redownload it each of my machines and sync my saves back and forth, I'm good. Every client seems to do that these days.
Valve doesn't have to answer to shareholders, so by default they are better than their competitors in the digital PC game seller market.
I agree with the article, and the conclusion hits the nail on the head.