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!

  • BiomedOtaku@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    15 days ago

    Fuck you Valve is the most pro consumer company there is. Go suck off zuckerberg and Tim cook you bootlicker.

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      15 days ago

      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.

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      15 days ago

      Valve is the most pro consumer company there is.

      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.