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I've literally never seen any of these so-called "simps"
Like, the internet is a big place and I'm sure some of them exist, but you could make that argument about any view at all. I see way more hatred for these alleged simps than the simps themselves.
Steam, and Valve, operate in a capitalist system. They've been successful. They are similar to a handful of other companies, like Costco, that seem to understand that in order for capitalism to be sustainable, corporations need tk govern themselves and show restraint. They need to focus not on merely achieving profit for ownership this quarter, but on establishing long-term and stable business relationships with all of their stakeholders. Customers, emplpyees, suppliers, governments, lenders, the planet itself.
The biggest failure of capitalism is that the system does not incentivize for any of this. Which is why such corporations are so rare.
For capitalism to be "good" basically everyone would have to be a saint. That's why something better than capitalism is needed, because that is far from the case, and actually impossible
Steam extracts money from their customers and suppliers at an insane profit ratio and has barely any employees. You are one of the simps bro.
Game stores are money printing machines. Gaben isn't your friend looking out for you, he probably laughs about peasants like you. You are a money bag waiting to be sucked dry.
Steam also provides value by acting as an intermediary.
There were 21,503 games released on Steam last year. How the hell is a consumer supposed tk make informed purchasing decisions with all that? Steam is a discovery platform which connects a game with the individuals most likely to buy that game.
It is also a central launcher to organize and manage libraries, including non-steam games. It's easy to move games between drives, and to use the various library tools to pick out what I want to play.
Then there's Proton, a completely free comlatability layer for Linux that has allowed me to mostly stop using Windows.
There's the Steam Workshop, which is far and away my preferred method to mod games. It's so much easier to click a button to add a mod tk Cities Skylines or Civ 6 than it is to fuck around with Nexus Mods and a mod manager for Skyrim.
Steam is a centralized location for support from developers. It also is convenient tk keep track of updates.
Steam Remote Play is probably the single most umpactful thing to my gaming in the past decade. I just need my 1 gaming desktop and I find myself playing on my Shield in my living room, my phone in bed, my tablet on my exercise bike, my Steam Deck on the porch, or even over at my friend's house on an old laptop. All for free, when I've never even be able to get Moonlight or Sunshine to work at all in my desktop.
Steam has social features like friends lists, chat, and even voice, which is relevant with how shitty Discord has been as a company lately. Support for family sharing and multiplayer is phenomenal.
It is not like Steam is just pocketing a bunch of money and not doing anything. They beat out not just their legitimate competitors, but even piracy, because they provide better value for the consumer. They do a lot of tasks that publishers otherwise would have to handle themselves, saving them costs.
And I'm sure there are more features that I'm forgetting kr that I don't bother with, but other people find valuable.
I do think they should be heavily regulated, but there hasn't really been much to regulate with them. They had a minor lawsuit in Australia early on relating to the verbiage displayed about refund policy. I don't like loot boxes, but my solution is... I don't buy them, and usually I don't even buy games with them.
There were 21,503 products released on Amazon last year. How the hell is a consumer supposed tk make informed purchasing decisions with all that? Amazon is a discovery platform which connects a product with the individuals most likely to buy that product.
I'll be a lot more open to comparing Valve with Amazon when I hear reports of Valve employees pissing in bottles
I see the point you're trying to make but that is a false equivalence for a lot of reasons. One of the biggest being that Amazon is well known to treat their workforce like crap and profit at their expense. Valve does not do that. On top of that Amazon dominated the market by illegally keeping prices lower than everyone else using backroom deals, using the Amazon basics label to undercut competition (a lot of times by making deals with the factories making those products,) and buying up competition.
Valve on the other hand just made the best service and keeps releasing features that actually help consumers and developers. I'm not saying they're like some angelic company that has done no wrong, but they certainly are nowhere near the levels of Amazon, Microsoft, Epic, etc.
"false equivalence" Gives no logical reason why
I literally gave multiple reasons right after that. Did you just stop reading after those 2 words?
And none of those reasons were valid to the person's point, yet morons upvoted you without a single thought rattling in their brain.
The Amazon store is pretty bad at any kind of product discovery or helping me make informed decisions. There's way too much junk there, reviews are mostly useless, and there's no guarantee of actually receiving the product as advertised.