Valve has done some good things for the game industry: they encouraged modifications, and made some good games.

However, I feel as if the gaming community praises Valve too much.

  • The gaming community praises Valve’s monopoly on game distribution services.

That’s about it though.

  • southerntofu@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    Didn’t they though? I mean they act like a centralized middleman for many games, get to say what is acceptable or not, and to my knowledge don’t respect european regulations (about private copy and second-hand software licensing).

    EDIT: We could also talk about digital handcuffs (DRM).

    • poVoq@lemmy.ml
      2·
      2 years ago

      Steam itself doesn’t really have DRM, however they do allow other publishers to add DRM to their games on the Steam platform.