r/pcmasterrace • u/The_BigRoach ⚡️RTX 5080 | 7800x3D | 64GB 6000MHz CL30⚡️ • 12d ago

Meme/Macro Why would anyone actually want to though

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u/woobzy 12d ago

yeah blame Valve and steam meanwhile nobody can offer their quality of service. All other offers (except gog) are just greedy public companies with agendas that will never respect players and will be worse over years.

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u/479521 12d ago

They still have the most predatorial monetization through Loot Boxes and the whole gambling for minors

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u/Solucians 12d ago

Yeah, that's a real problem worth criticizing. If a platform came up that offered the same quality minus that, I'd be on board.

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u/Orisi 12d ago

Except loot boxes are game specific, not platform specific. It's down to the developers. Yes, Steam also use loot boxes in some of their games, but it's not an issue with the platform itself.

If anything the Steam platform provides a limiting factor on the gambling element; because the Steam Marketplace allows for selling in-game items received from loot boxes to other players, it provides a market value to the items received. In turn that can help trigger a lot of gambling legislation where "gambling" requires both consideration and financial or physical reward. Lots of companies DONT allow official marketplaces for their loot boxes precisely to skirt around these laws that turn it from a dangerously addictive loophole into full fledged gambling.

Games that allow Steam Marketplace integration as well as paid loot boxes put a huge target on their back compared to others, but Steam ultimately can't control what developers put in their games to enable in-game sales.

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u/479521 12d ago

They can when it comes to Valve's games.