There's no suspect you fit into the category of people that shitpost

Steam has abduct kids into gambling for a decade and no authority ever gave a shit about it. The government wants a bigger piece of the cake of an increasing market.

Steam steal all your data and abduct kids into gambling and yet your main concern is reddit toxicity?

I am saying that it is not the individual company that is the main problem but the system that enables them to begin with.

They are the company who pioneered this shit, back in the day they had almost 0 competitors. There's no law forcing you to use steam. What you are saying is something among the lines that without microsoft some one else would be in charge of a proprietary os.

The original comment was that without them you would probably still own the games you paid for and you argued that if not them someone else would have do the same thus giving the idea like others have expressed here that steam is somewhat fine where it is.

You are not being realistic you are being stupid. You are indeed defending a evil corporation and a billionare with a fleet of mega yachts by stating that their work is necessary. They are needed for what? For a long time before they rolled in and started misleading kids tossing money in marketing you didn't need a third party proprietary launcher to run software and you still don't need it now.

Sounds like you don't have any arguments you are just being a troll yourself

You don’t remember pre-Steam

Do you? pre-steam you would install games and play them outside steam

Are you using lemmy through a third party proprietary launcher?

That's really a bold claim. The guy owns a billion dollar fleet of mega yachts polluting the planet. Please highlight me on things i'm saying that are supposed to be worst than that.

I'm gonna share a golden case from italy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Brusca

This man who himself declared committed between 100 and 200 murders (he lost track) got released after 25 years and walks free.

You don't need any third party proprietary launcher to run software

I'm neither a tankie or a troll, just look at the guy he's sitting in his mega yacht with tactical glasses and hair combed like a mafioso

without them you would probably still own the games you paid for

I'm gonna go against the current here and say no. Videogames are not a good hobby and a poor investment of your time. If the alternative is deer hunting or anything shady then playing videogames is one of the less harmful things you can do on earth but among the thousand activities you can do and pick up as a hobby videogames are not free of issues.

First of all by specifically getting into video games you are looking at stare at a screen and sit for hours. Not a big deal if you can manage it but don't limit yourself to just videogames, there are board games, social games, mind sports and many other games you can get into.

Videogames industry has become very rotten and has appropriated the whole community. Many of the titles being suggested here are "products" made by evil companies with mechanics built to mess up with people. Steam which many recommended you to download is a proprietary software launcher that belongs to a company that has no problem pushing loot boxes and abduct kids into gambling. That's the sort of business you are getting your hands into.

The guy looks exactly like what a greedy billionare asshole you would expect to look like

Which services? isn't it similar to matrix?

Isn't it decentralized?

Don't advertise this microsoft shit thanks.

Nobody can do shit about it anyways so they are going to do it for whatever reason. Red and blue party just won elections and it's going to win again in 4 years, government gonna do whatever they want.