• Yamayo@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    people should always keep that in mind when praising him

    Why?? Good for him, stop being so envious. It’s thanks to Valve I started to buy games instead of pirate them anyway. Good prices and good practices.

    A billionaire from a game industry is not the same as a billionaire from a real state company or a bank. Games are not a basic need.

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      Nah, a billionaire is a billionaire. There’s still people being exploited to get that much money. I don’t completely disagree, though - at least Gaben didn’t make Valve completely evil and yeah, it’s better than fucking up the property market for generations of people.

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      Billionaires shouldn’t exist. The government should regulate all these stores and force a max of 5%. They are clearly colluding and aren’t competing in good faith.

      This is having a negative impact on the industry, a lot of indie studios would have an easier time surviving if they weren’t bled dry by what essentially is a soft monopoly.

      Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony and Steam are all guilty yet you would never defend any of the other ones. Steam spends a lot of money convincing everyone Gaben is just a really cool dude and not your average billionaire.

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        Steam spends a lot of money convincing everyone Gaben is just a really cool dude and not your average billionaire.

        Or maybe he is a really cool dude…

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          Gaben owns 6 yatchs and spends between 70 million and 100 million a year maintaining them. He’s in the same club as Bezos and the rest.

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            Stop it with the fucking yatchs already, seriously. Just look at the differences between Vale and the other companys you mention. If you can’t see any, you are just a troll.

            You can’t say anything bad about Valve other than “they make a lot of money”. It gets boring.

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              Billionaires exist because you and me and people like us overpay for stuff, they accumulate wealth by making sure we don’t. Gabe’s wealth comes from the surplus generated by Valve, if they make that much surplus then they could lower their cut by a fucking lot and so could publishers that also enrich multimillionaire and billionaires.

              There are no good rich people.