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Gabe Newell on Steam monopoly accusations: Gamers have 'enormous choice' about where to buy games (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Yes, and I buy usually first on steam, second on gog. I buy on gog to own it. I buy on steam because its fucking easy to play on Linux with.

Valve does good work and they've never personally fucked me over. Until they do, I will continue to buy their shit and they are a company that supports Linux gaming and makes things easily repairable and provides docs to iFixIt

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Try Heroic Launcher. It's really good.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2 points 23 hours ago

Using it on my deck. Pretty great.

[–] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

they’ve never personally fucked me over.

Do you own any of the games you bought on steam?

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

No but they've never personally fucked me over. What's your point?

[–] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz -1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

my point it that they fucked you over, you paid for games you don't own

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 1 points 18 hours ago

I know that though. That's why I buy on steam and gog

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

they've never personally fucked me over. Until they do, I will continue to buy their shit

This mindset, while popularly-held, is precisely the reason Valve has such a monopolistic status in the first place.

[–] doctorflynt@feddit.org 1 points 3 hours ago

Yes, but i‘m not willing to give my money to worse companies. Valve may not be perfect, but as someone who only uses linux, its the only company that offers and improves compatibility with my systems.

I dont care if a store gets a bigger cut, as long as the bigger cut improves customer service and dont pocket it only for themeselve like ea, ubisoft and epic.