"Valve is not your friend, and Steam is not healthy for gaming"

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vivster said:

Valve is trash, I've been saying that for years. They don't give a shred about their customers or their clients unless they fear massive backlash.
Their practices however do not affect the vast majority of customers so nothing will ever change. But that's kinda the same with any quasi monopoly.

But thanks to PC as an open platform there are always alternatives. Just imagine how terrible it would be if they locked their store to very specific hardware and won't allow you to control or augment the games you purchased. That would be absolutely abysmal.

You mean if Valve went into the console business?

God knows what they'd do, maybe they'd start to charge people twice for their internet with a monthly subscription service like MS, Sony and soon Nintendo will do or something.