I love valve as much as the next PC gamer, but I agree their rules should not affect what publishers do entirely on other platforms.
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Ah, I see the valve bootlickers are already here. Lemmings hate companies, unless it’s Valve.
Valve is one of the few billion dollar companies that hasn't screwed me.
I like to think of it as a "so far, so good" kind of situation. Mostly.
I think most people have eyes on gaben because if he's leaves or dies or steps down, the entire world is gonna change, and as much as I hate to think about it, it likely won't be for the better. All my wisdom tells me that that man, billionaire or not, is the only thing keeping a lot of darkness at bay.
And before you say that's giving him too much credit, I'd like you to take a look at nvidia and Jensen Huang's current trajectory and effects on everything you hold dear right now.
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Such a weird stream of comments to be read on Lemmy.
Regardless of what you folks think about Valve, does anyone believe that a marketplace should have this kind of leverage over their suppliers? For instance, should Amazon be permitted to force manufacturers to set the price of a product outside of their marketplace? Should Apple be allowed to force app developers to price match the Google store?
Amazon literally does this if you sell on their platform as the manufacturer or just at all. My source: Hi, that’s me, and I can confirm this is standard practice at Amazon and I’m the manufacturer of my own product.
Hell, Reggie from Nintendo of old just stated that the entire reason Nintendo was not on Amazon for like 3 years because Amazon asked Nintendo to basically burn bridges with alllllll of their other suppliers, just like what you mentioned.
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