Sounds like he hasn’t play the other games

Remember blizzard is microsoft

Don’t play their (war)games

And maybe stop making games only for profits

Italian here who would like to raise a question:

Would you ever want to play a game named “Hamas: the old land” where you impersonate a terrorist?

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Why not? Don’t people play games because they want to have fun?

The instance and platform you are using to comment isn’t a corporation grinding billions.

“unhelpful” review aka reviews that could make them earn less money.

https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/steam

It’s 100% intentional

Stop advertising this game

Yes just like any other ruler they play risk with real people

Again, and for the last time, you have a problem with the industry.

Again, Valve it’s part of the industry and one if not the biggest chunk of it.

You are saying lootbooxes are an issue the government should regulate and you are spending hours defending the forprofit company of the people who pioneered lootboxes and made them popular among kids more than everybody else.

You’re yelling into the void. Enjoy that.

I don’t enjoy it much but you seem confused and i’m trying to help you figure out that valve is yet another evil forprofit company and that defending them doesn’t bring any justice into the world.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loot_box#Player_expenditures_and_gambling_concerns I personally believe that micro transactions shouldn’t be outlawed, you cannot ask everything to the law or expect to be a law for everything. It’s people that should open their eyes and stop defending scum companies promoting them. Valve has it’s own games with lootboxes. They are both to blame as developers and publishers.

2. A monopoly eat the whole market. Proprietary standards and walled gardens too threaten the whole community https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

3. When someone get all your informations you indeed are getting doxed you are just not aware.

4. I blame the scammers and the people defending the scammers, like you, shame on you for defending greedy ass companies like valve who profit out of kids.

1. Valve promotes lootboxes and even add them in their own games.

2. You don’t need a third party launcher to use Blender or Krita, neither to play Minetest, Mindustry, Endless sky, 0ad, Wesnoth and many other games.

3. Why are you so paranoid posting your name, address, credit card number, e-mail, age, IP address, device unique id, chat logs, forum posts, voice chat recordings, hardware enumeration, browser history? Never mind if you don’t want to share these information, my cousin work for Valve i can ask him for these anyway

4/5. Valve is not a machine, they are humans, they are not forced to be scummy just because everyone does it. Valve is pretty much a monopoly, they shaped the industry as it is more than everyone else. Who should we blame for lootboxes? 10 years old kids because they are stupid and buy these?

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/take-action-for-free-javascript

Let’s take this point to point yeah:

1. “Loot boxes are considered part of the compulsion loop of game design to keep players invested in a game. Such compulsion loops are known to contribute towards video game addiction and are frequently compared to gambling addiction. This is in part due to the use of a “variable-rate reinforcement schedule” similar to how slot machines dole out prizes. While many players may never spend real-world money in a loot-box system, such addictive systems can bring large monetary expenditures from “whales”, players who are willing to spend large amounts of money on virtual items. Gambling concerns are heightened in games that offer loot boxes and are known to be played by children. Loot boxes also feed into the social anxiety around the “fear of missing out” (FOMO), as some random drops from loot boxes may be available for only a limited time, and players will be more inclined to spend money to obtain loot boxes so they do not miss out on these items. The use of pity-timers in loot box redemption also can feed into the gambler’s fallacy, appearing to give credence to the player that they will be assured of a high-rarity item if they open enough loot boxes.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loot_box#Player_expenditures_and_gambling_concerns

2. Simply allowing DRM in your proprietary platform, advertise product with these and locking your games in a library is more than just promoting DRM. Still i’ve only said they promote these.

3. Name, address, credit card number, e-mail, age, IP address, device unique id, chat logs, forum posts, voice chat recordings, hardware enumeration, browser history. Go ahead and type all these information here for the public since it’s not big deal, if you are afraid keep in mind that i can just pay Valve a bunch of money to get these anyway

4. What you are saying is that since everyone does it than it’s ok. Fine than what i’m going to do is pick the biggest company in the market that does that and call them out for being the scammers they are. I never said that kids shouldn’t be allowed to play videogames you made this up yourself. If anything shouldn’t be allowed it’s these greedy companies to trick kids. One thing is to market games to kids another to target them with shady and hostile business practices .

5. There’s plenty of better companies and developers that make games that don’t exploit you. https://libregaming.org/play-libre-games/

Valve abducts kids into gambling, mine people data, promotes DRMs and proprietary software. All of that out of geed and seeking profits.

Especially to kids videogames are really alluring, it’s important to warn everyone against evil and greedy companies.

https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/steam

Kids (the majority of steam customers) are really easy to brainwash and manipulate. Valve probably also spends millions on advertising

build a product that people want and they’ll buy it.

Gabe knows better, they are a professional salesman. Nobody wants or wanted a third party launcher to launch their games, or borrowing them with DRMs, or getting all your personal information mined. With gimmicks such as releasing games that only work on steam or sales applied to products that never expire, they managed to build a monopoly and get so popular that steam self propel its need.