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New York sues Valve for 'letting children and adults illegally gamble' with loot boxes
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In this thread: a complete lack of moral clarity as gamers simp for one of the most profitable companies in the industry. Valve was a pioneer of loot boxes. When they got in trouble for CS:GO skin gambling, they did the minimum to make it look like they didn't allow it and allowed it to make an easy comeback. They sit back and make 30% off the sale of every game on the platform. People should be saying that Valve is very bad and Epic is even worse. Instead gamers feel this strange need to pick sides with a giant company that controls almost all PC gaming. No, we can easily say they're all bad.
Not everyone has loyalty to Valve or any company.
Not everyone, but plenty of people in this thread do. And plenty of gamers in general excuse their bad behavior.
That's true. I've gotten pushback for criticizing Valve and there is a lot to criticize.
They might be better in some way than other US tech companies, but that's doesn't mean much.
You're a citizen in a village. The Nazis have come to your village and decide to destroy you. You attack the friendly village toymaker for hosting gambling nights for everybody.
Yes, it's wrong.
No, it's not the time.
Nuance is dead.
Village toymaker? Wow.
The village must be quite famous and populous to even have one! Perhaps it's a whole ass-town, even!
What do you think would be a more apt analogy, then? Maybe I'm painting them in an unfair light. But, my point is that they're a toymaker that makes and distributes entertainment for everybody, but also do this thing that kinda sucks.
Billionaire owned tech companies that controll a market so tightly they pretty much have a monopoly shouldn't be anthropomorphized so fondly. I want you to vomit up that Kool aid.