• firecat
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    -3811 months ago

    Valve loves money and it clearly shows. The steam awards just became an advertising tool, people in Valve had to write the paragraph about the game.

    • @hackitfast@lemmy.world
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      4611 months ago

      They do like money, but Valve also loves providing a service to people.

      Nobody uses Epic Games, Origin, Ubisoft Connect, or Battle.net because they want to, they use it because they have to.

      Steam Awards is a bit janky sure, but to say that their inability to run pointless awards properly ruins the convenience and value that Steam brings to its users would be a gross overstatement.

      • ekZepp
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        11 months ago

        Damn i only have EG and Gog accounts because of the free games… and Ubisoft because of the AC (except Valhalla, fk that), series .

      • firecat
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        -811 months ago

        No they don’t care about the service, we should be able to play games without steam client, we should be able to resell digital games, developers should not had to pay $100 non refundable fees to upload one game each time, etc.

        Steam cares about money, it’s just that simple.

        • @wahming
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          511 months ago

          They’re a business, not a charity. OF COURSE they care about money. What’s nice is that they do it ethically and in a consumer-friendly way.

        • @BobGnarley@lemm.ee
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          011 months ago

          Are you able to resell digital games on Nintendos platforms? What about playstation or xbox? Wow, no you say?

          • firecat
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            -111 months ago

            Neither in steam, the keysellers are scams and the developers can scam you with the key. You don’t own the game, Nintendo lets you own games in physical format and has never let publishers remove them.

      • @cottonmon@lemmy.world
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        711 months ago

        Only write-ups I could see was for the description of the award. I don’t remember if the games had write-ups during the voting period though.