Comment on Epic CEO wants Valve and Steam to stop requiring devs to disclose generative AI usage
TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
Another example that Steam doesn’t maintain dominance via market abuse, but rather by being decent in a market where the competition is downright awful.
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 7 hours ago
TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
That’s why I used the word “decent” instead of something like “good”.
Valve (along with Itch.io) also removed several LGBTQ2S+ games recently due to some complaints from payment processors, and I think that’s terrible. (your first link is not working at the moment, so maybe that was mentioned there?) GoG, on the other hand, released some of those removed games for free.
Valve is absolutely not perfect and they have done other bad things before, but when you’re competing with Epic, or EA Origin, or whatever Ubisoft calls their shit, it’s easy to see why they dominate the market. GoG is probably the only other company that also behaves “decently”, has a good product, and is in a similar space with Steam.
Devmapall@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
Yeah man you hit it right on the head. None of these companies can be good because by nature they can’t. Decent companies can exist and they recognize customers as who are important.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4 hours ago
Right? If he doesn’t like it he can just go make his own store with all the AI he wants…