Official statement from Valve.
We shared with the NYAG that these types of boxes in our games are widely used, not just in video games but in the tangible world as well, where generations have grown up opening baseball card packs and blind boxes and bags, and then trading and selling the items they receive.
You’re right! We should stop that too!
I guess G*mers love loot boxes now.
Fuck Valve for the profiteering off child gambling.
And fuck the G*mers that keep giving Valve a free pass because they’ve been a monopoly longer then they’ve been alive.
They hate billionaires except when it involves their treats
Fuck valve for loot boxes but also fuck you twice as much.
Valve is the only market place and game company that isn’t as fucking consumers at every step of the way.
They have ONE problem. Instead of ALL the problems like everyone else.
I have physical copies of games that won’t work because of Steam making back alley deals with publishers to push their DRM into securing a monopoly.
Fuck you for excusing monopolistic shithead behaviour because your favourite billionaire has to buy Aston Martins to race.
Fuck you Valve is the most pro consumer company there is. Go suck off zuckerberg and Tim cook you bootlicker.
You can tell a lot of money is being moved on the dark web to push shit onto Valve. I wonder how much pressure they are under to try to get them to go public. The change needs to be legislative, not targeted.
Is that why they argued against refunds for years until the EU forced them to do the bare minimum?
Is that why they happily sell broken games with zero quality control?
Is that why they happily continue to sell abandoned early access products?
Is that why they make back alley deals with publishers to use Steam as DRM for physical releases?
Is that why platform most-favored-nations is used to prevent games being sold for cheaper on other platforms.
Fuck you. You brainwashed G*mer cunt.