How is Lemmy so anti corporate, but bends over backwards to defend steam as an immaculate corporation. I love steam, and 90% of my game purchases or from their store. 5% are from stores that let me redeem steam keys.

I think their market position should have some scrutiny.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 33 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A few reasons:

I feel like any other major company with Steam's marketshare would be far less consumer friendly than steam.
Steam funnels a lot of money into Linux, and Linux is very popular on Lemmy. If you use Linux, you are benefiting from Steam's success.
Steam is just nice to use, and has good deals. It's nice to have my games in one place, and I don't know if any other storefront with as many nice user benefiting features as steam.

[–] Copernican@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I agree with all these things. But I dont understand the hail corporate mentality of being upset or knee jerk defending steam. I'm curious to see where the suit goes and evaluate if I should consider joining a class action suit as I learn more.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

I think theres also the secondary unstated factor some of us have, that being that Steam is working as a solid buffer against more malignant groups. The fact that Steam is for a lack of a better term incorruptible is frankly very useful, especially with groups like the Saudis and China investing a lot of money and influence into gaming recently. Better a flawed but ultimately decent corporation than whatever the fuck the Saudis or China would replace it with.

[–] Kedly@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

Its more we're defending against Steams competition and dont want to see them gain any ground (Except itch and GoG, they're cool)

[–] SuperIce@lemmy.world 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Mainly because Steam actually provides a really good quality service. Most corporations over time charge more while getting worse on quality. People can sell their games for cheaper on Epic which only has a 12% fee, but Epic's service is much worse.

[–] furikuri@programming.dev 7 points 5 months ago

Yup. If Steam wasn't around I'd have the joy of choosing between Epic, Origin, GOG (actually not bad but no official Linux client can be annoying), or GFWL (which would probably still be around in this situation)

[–] the_toast_is_gone@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago

They're not immaculate. They used to outright deny people the right to refund their games, but they turned that around after a massive lawsuit from a government agency. Good change! I support that. But they're not behaving in an anti-competitive manner. What, are they supposed to intentionally make themselves worse in the hopes that other stores pop up? That's not how any of this works.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Lemmy is not a monolith.

[–] Copernican@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Obviously. I'm Lemmy and against that. But there are dominant pov's on Lemmy that saturate threads and are reflected in up votes and down votes

[–] Kedly@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

We'll let their position have some scrutiny when the PC marketplace has some actual decent competition, I'd rather not shoot the PC gaming sphere in the foot just because Lemmy hates corporations.