Picrel is a greed-fueled parasitic foreskin eating pederast scumtrash, planted by Them to oversee and to stagnate video games; and to ensure degeneracy is spread further.

>>714668408 (OP)
Nobody is going to use your store, Tim.

Imagine how the game world would look if someone like EA or M$ got their hands on online game distribution before valve

>>714668431
>le black and white

Picrel is a generous pure blooded hyperborean aryan god-man from Atlantis who will save gaming from Them.

>>714668513
Epic literally hires shill armies. No conspiracy theory here.

>>714668732
So? What brain-washed point are you trying to make, cattle? Because EGS is bad doesn't mean that Steam is any good. EGS exist solely to redirect focus of mindless trash like you who represent the consoomer zombie horde.

deadlock hate thread

>>714668408 (OP)
Damn man, play a vidya game, you're getting all worked up for nothing.

>>714668431
>steamie trash absolutely fucking obsessed that one hero called out the trash company killing video games

>>714669467
>steamie
You're brown.

steam drones are like jews
they conveniently always forget all the harms caused by steam and valve and constantly bring up the "le saved pc gaming (not really)" just like how jews bring up the 6 gorillion
valve done more harm than companies like ea and ubisoft combined

>>714669639
Cool projection upvoted to the left fellow gaben enthusiast

>>714668569
I am glad that modern medicine made being fat both a self control issue, and a poverty issue. You are lazy and poor if you're obese. No excuse.

Guilty of willingly partnering with Sweet Baby Inc and WINGS, companies dedicated to injecting political agendas into games and is guilty of racism & coordinating attacks against others.

Actively injects Steam with politics by partnering with DEI companies and holding platform-wide events pushing a political agenda.

Operates their review moderation staff with a clear political bias, doing things such as banning the #1 review for games on Steam pointing out that any given product has DEI in it, even if it is just quoting the developers

Including wiping out any and all user generated content that does something even vaguely similar.

Falsely flags and subsequently censorships thousands of reviews all over the Steam store (and manipulates the publicly visible game review score to be false) under the umbrella term of them being "off-topic" when they are in fact not off-topic.

Further manipulates review scores by discluding every single review from it that wasn't directly purchased on Steam

Publicly lied about the introduction and adoption of the Steam "Helpfulness System", calling it new when it was first tried in 2018 and then further saying it targets "Informative Reviews" when all it does is hide negative reviews, regardless of the information or content provided in said reviews.

Introduced predatory gambling "lootboxes" that exploit both vulnerable individuals and weak parts of the human psyche for profit in one or more of their games.

Guilty of being an extremely corrosive monopoly of the PC video game industry, attacking anything resembling competition while charging absurdly unreasonable 30% profit cuts for the simple act of hosting games.

Abandoned fundamental visual designs in one or more of their games for profit, mandated removal of weapon skin server mods & addons from all community servers, publicly lied about their intent to have players "not" gamble and more.

Guilty of chronically mishandling Team Fortress 2 for over a decade, letting it become completely run over with bots and cheaters, even years after making public statements promising to fix things. When the community tries to do it themselves

They send out DMCA's and Cease-and-Desist letters to people trying to recreate the game.

Deceptively & intentionally "leaked" their employee handbook for PR purposes, misleading both the public and any would-be employees about the true working conditions at the company.

Discourages users from posting negative reviews by adding another confirmation step before they can write one in contrast to positive reviews.

Guilty of overly automating their customer support service to a fault, including having bots post auto replies stating that they "confirmed" rule violations in replies when they are in fact not confirmed.

Allegedly forces developers to help them commit anti-competition practices by threatening termination if they sell their products elsewhere without price fixing while requiring all pricing adjustments to be placed under "review".

Guilty of operating their support center with discriminatory moderation, abuse of power and hypocrisy, not following their own moderation guidelines and rules that they impose on all developers and publishers on Steam.

Guilty of encouraging and main-streaming the ability for developers to indulge in regional price fixing.

Conforms their platform to censorship specific words that only certain small, political vocal minorities deem to be offensive.

Actively engages in censorshipping criticism of their products on their forums and elsewhere.

Guilty of having some extremely incompetent & unprofessional moderators actively refusing to do their duties.

Broke laws in numerous countries in regards to misleading their customers.

Displayed extreme hypocrisy for years on end with handling games that had sexual content, allowing bloodied visible genitalia in games such as Outlast 2 but demanding all developers remove uncensor patches from 2d novel games.

Guilty of having multiple support staff members operating in complete contradiction to what's actually stated in the Steam Rules, handing out fallacious bans in the process.

Displays extreme hypocrisy with punishments, having one of their employees openly insult their entire fanbase like a ranting man-child with no disciplinary action afterwards

Meanwhile, they permanently ban tens of thousands of people for the simple act of playing on a different account and timed said bans with the holiday seasons in a malicious manner.

Guilty of committing anti-trust practices in the form of geo-blocking their customers.

Guilty of pushing several updates into Counter Strike that has led into thousands of people being falsely banned by VAC.

Chronically mismanaged their game Counter Strike: Global Offensive's hitboxes and hitreg system for so long, an entirely new phrase was invented for it.

Followed disgusting trends from other companies such as Microsoft (which the CEO has ridiculed in the past) to try and remove a consumers' right to filing for class-action lawsuits against them

This attempt of a legal defense was axed in 2024 following a lawfirm called Zaiger banding together arbitrations to create something similar to class-action lawsuits which Valve massively cried about immediately.

Guilty of breaking their own EULA by stripping the rights of their customers when it comes to Steam hardware purchases using Steam wallet funds.

Set up official beta testing groups for various Steam functions just to ignore the received feedback.

Guilty of breaking European law.

Knowingly released Counter Strike 2 in a terrible state with broken matchmaking, an endless list of bugs & issues, lagging servers, a hacking epidemic and much more.

Wiped out all player achievements for CS:GO and erased the game entirely in order to replace it with the inferior version, Counter Strike 2.

Actively censorships the Steam chat client by ghost deleting certain phrases, messages and links.

Regularly bans thousands of users for the simple act of leaving a like on reviews.

Falsely flags people posting informational articles in the discussion forums as "spam".

Have moderators that occasionally ban perfectly legitimate game reviews.

Integrated an extremely unstable and experimental "anti-cheat" system into Steamworks, something that was removed due to massive backlash the one singular time it was tested in a game

>>714668408 (OP)
Why does this schizo """post""" read like a twitter chatGTP effort?
I don't even like Steam particularly much anymore, I'm just forced to use it.

Exercises extreme anti-consumer practices by ignoring customer communication attempts on mediator websites such as the Better Business Bureau.

Guilty of censorshipping Steam Curators, deleting curations made while giving absolutely zero notice to the creator as to why or when.

Broke publicly made promises to have zero tolerance towards asset flip games back in 2017 just to not bother with this at all later.

Banned a developer from their own forum following retaliatory "strong language" for an entire week before later escalating it to a permanent ban under false pretenses.

Guilty of having a gross majority of their customer support consist of robots that fail to read support requests, fail to double-check any judgements done and having humans not only lie on behalf of said robots but also fail to quality control anything they do.

Declared war on mods out of nowhere by cracking down and locking their workshop servers to try and prevent any and all mods being downloaded manually, preventing people from making backups to avoid saves breaking from mod updates and server owners from hosting servers that have an older (more stable) versions of any given game.

Is this the gooner ragethread?

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>>714670016
Brown rant.