> Skim 30% from every indie game sold, but make secret deals with big corpos to reduce the cut
> They do this despite not providing the hardware or software environment to play games
> Steam is literally just a launcher
> Said launcher contains telemetry and is always running in the background
> Popularized cosmetic microtransactions with TF2 hats
> invented a real money auction house for digital cosmetics which is exclusively used to engage in real money gambling using CS crates.
> Never designed an original game after Half Life, instead they bought out indies and turned their developers into wage slaves never to be seen again
> Stopped releasing new games because indies don't want to be bought out anymore
> Valve is fine with this because to sell on PC you have to go through them

Still think they're the good guys?

>>712689405
It's dominating the handheld PC market accounting for about 2/3 of sales.

>>712680379
I just made a chart. Are you optimistic about this gen?