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Valve ceo is thinking about the next project from his mega yachts


Apple have the rights to sell you a stand for 999$ but you are getting fooled hard


Yes, there are videogames sales no wonder there are sales for every other product. Originally sales are made because grocery expire, you can have sales for any reason you want such as tricking people into buy more of your products but then that’s what you are doing: tricking people.


That’s the basic of how making a profit works.

Not everything is made for infinite profits


Nobody would be willing to pay 50$ for a game released in 1999 because they know the costs to make the game are already covered




We are talking in a platform that has not such greedy goals


That’s not true, especially for software that has infinite supply


We cannot get it because we are not rich but rich people aren’t frugal they don’t wait a videogame to drop 5$ in price to buy it


Sounds like videogames sales are made to make money and the original price has not much to do with cover costs bur rather making as much profits as people are willing to pay


Can you elaborate where your confusion lies?

Real goods have a limited lifespan, they usually go on sales when they are about to reach the end of their life or when you physically have to get rid of them. Software doesn’t expire.

A price is usually set to cover the initial costs and to make a reasonable profit not to squeeze how much money you can from people.


Grocery deteriorates, when it’s about to expire it goes on sales and if nobody buys they throw it away. Software doesn’t rotten.


So what you are saying is that it is only a marketing move to appeal to poorer people?


Can someone explain videogames sales to me? How can a game be 12$ and 8.99$ the day after?


it wasn’t as intuitive as Discord was

How is discord more intuitive? You don’t even get a list of servers in the app


animation, scripts, music

“handcrafted” music is recorded with microphones playing real instruments, you ever saw a game labeling their music as non-digital?


Any pr campaign these idiots do look ridiculous but just like ads it works or they wouldn’t be doing it. The average person probably falls for it.


Don’t get fooled, trying to look “cool” is part of his pr campaign. Their favorite game they spend all day playing is hoarding money and power off people.


it’s about enabling the PC gaming ecosystem, removing barriers to people who want to create games.

Their main product is a proprietary third party software launcher. Valve is a for profit company that goes as down as pushing gambling to kids in order to milk more billions for its ceo.




It would be nice if they release the source code now


Yeah, no.

There are multiple comments in the thread that point out the gambling problem including the top comment.

I hate microtransactions of all kinds

With you putting so much effort in defending a company that makes billions off microtransactions and promotes gambling to kids it sounds like you love them.

but Valve is by far nowhere near the worst offender here.

Your comparison should be lemmy and open source platforms not other companies like valve.

CS:2 are both rated M in the US, and 18+ in the EU

Do you really want me to believe there aren’t kids below 18 playing CS in europe? Steam collects your data https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/steam they are fully aware of the actual age of their users and ignore it in the name of profits to allow it’s ceo buy mega yachts.



I don’t encourage anyone to playing around with proprietary software games. Instead there’s plenty of great foss games that you can have fun trying and playing

https://libregaming.org/play-libre-games/


Okay? I don’t care how much money he has, I only care what kind of person he is and what he does with he resources he has.

He’s the ceo of a company that promotes gambling to kids through a proprietary app and he uses their resources to stroll around in a fleet of mega yachts.

If that’s your idea of a fair reasonable human you are a villain yourself.



Trying to blame others actions while we all contribute to it is a joke.

You are defending the biggest polluting individuals in the world and probably in history.

I really hope reincarnation is a thing and you get to be reborn as a seaturtle and choke in diesel fuel left by a mega yacht


Do you realize how much even 1% in the scale of billions is? It more than entire small countries. If the billionare you are talking about would give you 1% of his money to defend him online you would get 50 millions.


Why are you wasting your time defending billionares who are screwing the planet and everyone over? Are you getting paid or are you playing the devil advocate?

There are 800 billionares in USA alone and more than 3000 around the globe. My country italy has about 60 million people and spend 130B on public health each year. The 5.7T you mentioned would be enough to cover the healthcare spending that covers 60M people for 40 years.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/11/megayachts-environment-carbon-emissions-ban


it’s so small that completely eradicating them would do exactly nothing to combat climate change

That’s not true, did you read any of the link posted?

We live in a society made of billions of individuals, we are not ants or robots, everyone is supposed to do is part. Billionare part count as much as millions of people, that’s how big their footprint it.


The yachts they buy, sit in dry dock 99% of their lives. You bitching about it is pure ignorance.

In the articles is it explained how they don’t spend 99% of their live there and how they are polluting even when they are docked, they also get to show you how much of a problem that “1%” cause

You bitching about it is pure ignorance.

I really hope you are rich yourself and own a bunch of boats because otherwise you defending a billionare is as miserable as one can get.


Ok then what’s stopping people from doing that?

Nobody. Valve spend millions on advertising to remain popular and outshadow competitors. As a result there are many brainwashed fools who go around defending the company like you can see in this thread


Luckily your computer can run any software you want so there’s no need to build any platform to play videogames.

I was reply to your concern of people not being able to find their games, the fediverse is an example of how you can build a non centralized network and still bring people together.



If a single person throw the garbage out of the window it isn’t going to cause much of pollution so why don’t you just throw trash out?

As the ceo of a company with millions of clients many of which are kids you are entitled more than everyone else to show the good example.

What you are saying is simply wrong anyway, mega yachts and billionares are indeed a big cause of pollution.

https://www.oxfamamerica.org/press/press-releases/richest-1-emit-as-much-planet-heating-pollution-as-two-thirds-of-humanity/

https://cleantechnica.com/2024/06/19/superyachts-for-the-super-rich-cause-a-whole-lot-of-environmental-damage/

https://www.oceanweb.com/superyachts-and-pollution-at-sea/


You are on lemmy, a open source and decentralized platform where thousand of different instances federate with each others…


So we’re at a point that,

We are at a point where if we don’t reduce emissions humanity is doomed. A fleet of private mega yachts is a smack in the face to everyone trying to change for good and so is a smack spending billions on “toys” when the average person is struggling to pay rent.

You seem to have lost track of the plot and of reality, look around yourself there’s a disaster or a tragedy happening every single day.


Ah, yes, capitalism. Because they don’t have to pay to maintain servers and infrastructure or anything, right?

They are stacking billions. It means they are paying peanuts compared to what they are making.