Great change imo. The new & trending tab feels a lot more useful now that it isn’t 50% demos.

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      This is literally an example of why Steam gets praised as the only good game store. They make a change, users complain that part of the change sucks, and they listen to the feedback

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        Steam does provide a good product, no critique there. My point is the fact that they too are employing anti competitive measures and serve a billionaire. I wont stop criticizing that.

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          Your point is irrelevant to this post so you’re just being obnoxious by forcing in criticism

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              I dunno man you’re like the people that insert politics into every thread, and I say that as one of them.

              Sometimes we can talk about a Russian person doing something nice or we can talk about a cat in Istanbul without bringing up genocide.

              EDIT: or that They Might Be Giants song

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                I see your point. A reason why I brought this up is because valve does not see criticism for the things they also do wrong and especially on this platform, rarely does anyone look at them from a non favorable view. Thats not because they dont do wrong but because they are good at marketing and other gaming companies are a lot worse than them.

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          But that was nowhere close to what you wrote though. It is perfectly fine to remind people that Valve is not the customers friend.

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            Well, I might wanna be more direct in my critique in the future. Thanks for giving constructive criticism.

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          I wont stop criticizing that.

          When did you start? Because that’s low-effort trolling irrelevant to “your point”:

          bUt sTeAm iS mY gOd! hOw dArE yOu!!!

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      You should evaluate why you came to a barely populated thread, and made up a complete straw man to get upset over.

      You’re manufacturing outrage for yourself. That’s not healthy.

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      What? Isn’t this a common W for steam? This seems like a good thing to me.

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        I was referring to the very vocal crowd that can not ever accept steam being criticized for dominating the market and serving its billionaire owner, however „less bad“ he is. There are no ethical billionaires.

        It could be viewed as a measure to get free games away from the main focus so valve can make more money.

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          puts free games into focus in their own tab

          It could be viewed as a measure to get free games away from the main focus so valve can make more money.

          incomprehension

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              The only reason they are in their own tab now is because users complained about how they were on the main tab, that’s the whole point of this thread. Get your head out of your ass.

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              There is litterally an “all the freebies here” button on the page now

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          Because your criticism sucks. You want to take something good from people Because “rich man is rich”, who cares as long as product good and not overly taking my money.

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        Whatever mate. I wont stop criticizing anti competitive companies, there billionaire owners and the crowd that worships them.

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          I mean, comments are free. If you believe that’s a decent enough use of your limited time on this Earth, who am I to argue?

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            The underlying issue here is that we are in this mess because our parents and grandparents didnt do this (enough). So yes, going against corporations is kind of my hobby.

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              I don’t see how posting to lemmy in general is going to influence people that disagree with you both because I don’t think there are many people here that do and also I think that your comment in particular is so far removed from the topic of this article that it borders on being a non sequitur entirely, and I’m worried you may get the feeling that the people downvoting you are against your message and not the fact that your message isn’t relevant beyond being a knee-jerk reactionary cry against Valve, one of the only privately owned companies that seems to listen to user feedback as thoroughly as the article demonstrates.

              I don’t believe Valve is a monopoly and I’ve directly been able to talk to Gabe Newell via email multiple times over multiple years. Maybe some of their inter-business dealings could be better for their business partners, but as a lifelong steam user that so far has felt comfortable buying almost every hardware product they’ve put out I continue to feel comfortable supporting them because they seem to actually care about their customers from what I have directly experienced.

              I don’t mean any of this in a confrontational tone, and I apologize for the general shill vibes of that second paragraph. I’d be happy to continue the discussion, I think your message is correct and good and I think there are better more effective ways of acting on it.

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                I do appreciate you taking the time to write this up and I didnt get a confrontational vibe from you.

                But excusing it by saying „could be better“ makes you part of the problem.

                Billionaires are the cancer of this world and anti competitive actions have evidently been committed, if you like to hear it or not.

                Tell your friend gabe to start making a real difference in the world because he actually can and then you can say its not that bad.

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                  I don’t know what a solution would look like here. In your opinion, what should be done to stop Valve from being anti-competitive? What specifics should I be raising awareness of and looking into? What should be done by/about Gabe Newell?

                  I would like to know more about what you believe the solution here is, because at its core I see Valve as the end result of very talented and self-driven people doing an amazing job at delivering a very good product. I would hope that would lead to success, and I am given to understand that Gabe (to focus back in) is not a disinterested corporate figurehead as the position is with other software companies.

                  There’s some amount of anti-competitive behavior that is just… Doing business in a space with competitors. I write private code that I use myself and within the company I work for that I choose not to share with my competitors, is that anti-competitive behavior? This is a dumb example, but also I haven’t seen a direct convincing argument as to what Valve is doing to deserve the label.

                  In many ways, to provide my viewpoint, they’ve directly supported both unofficial modifications to their storefront by users (Decky Loader, for loading steam deck mods), modifications to their hardware (OLED screen mods, replacement parts on iFixit for reasonable prices), and even support Windows on the deck and are beginning (through reading commit logs) to support competitors’ hardware in their custom OS. They’ve singlehandedly pushed gaming on Linux into the mainstream eye and are doing well with it.

                  All that to say that I don’t think the way that Gabe became a billionaire was bad, and while I would prefer he use his personal wealth to better society I both don’t know enough about what he does with his money to know whether or not he’s already doing that and also think that any solution here would genuinely go against fundamental liberties and personal freedoms that I personally agree with. I’m not an absolutist on this, but enough of what I do know about the history of Valve and Gabe in specific lead me to lend him some amount of goodwill, because he has through his works and actions earned it from me.

                  I don’t disagree that billionaires are bad. Personally, I strongly believe in a Star Trek post-monetary future.

                  I wouldn’t call Gabe Newell a friend, although I suspect I don’t disagree with many of his opinions.

                  You are able to email him at [email protected], as is anyone else. I’ve emailed twice. Once when I was 13 to inform him of a bug in portal 2, and once a few years ago to inquire about steam being ported to arm.

                  There was a lot to explain about my position there and it may be a bit disjointed. If there’s anything I can clarify on my thinking, I’d be happy to.

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      The irony of someone who uses “AI” and spicy autocorrect to rank employees trying to complain about a company people love to work at, and provides a good product.