> 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?

good morning sir

>>713455698 (OP)
>Still think they're the good guys?
Better than Epic at least. Despite having the financial backing from Fortnite's massive success EGS didn't even bother trying to match Steam's feature and support infrastructure to benefit the customer, never mind that they actively bought out games specifically so Steam wouldn't be able to sell them.