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Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" [refer to in-app purchases] (finance.yahoo.com)
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[–] Agent_Karyo@piefed.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Funny thing is I don't support Valve or Tim Sweeney. While by American standards, Valve are angels, that is a very low standard. Sweeney is your stereotypical American corporate degenerate:

But honestly Valve is no better. Europe (and other countries/regions) should either force Valve to have to de facto white label their store for Europe (where they are a junior partner and hold minimal control) or kick them out. And I am not saying there can't be collaboration on common goals; e.g. investing into Linux support and open platforms, but you can't have Americans in charge of major platforms. That ship has sailed.

There are many massive issues with Valve:

  • They made a huge contribution to the rise of lootbox gambling schemes
  • They initially attempted a fraudulent scheme on local consumer laws on refunds
  • For most of Steam's life their TOS had mandatory arbitration requirements which is a local corruption scheme that is not too different from Soviet kangaroo courts. In their defence they did add that "as far as your country’s laws permit".

I will admit that the overall logic of the case doesn't make sense.

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

"You can't have Americans in charge of major platforms." Lmao what

[–] Agent_Karyo@piefed.world 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Apologies, in retrospective that was wrong to say.

I should have said "entities based in the US jurisdiction (or that are influenced by American-style corruption)".

You are correct that the nationality plays no role in this.

That being said, it is fact that all major US B2C tech platforms support corruption, engage in crime, engage in spyware activities and leverage shallow pompous PR copytext about alleged belief in free speech and "government official this or that".

That ship has really sailed.

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Just realize Americans are not a homogeneous group, of course Google/Meta/MS/Oracle are all shitbag companies with leaders who support Trump, as far as I'm aware Gabe does not and has not contributed to rightwing government.

I understand the frustration and mistrust, I live here. But it's important to realize that is a small minority of people no matter how much of an outsize influence their power and corruption has over all of us.

Israel is bad, but not all Israelis or Jews are, not supporting Israeli companies that are govt backed/ran by "ex"IDF makes sense, but companies that don't shouldn't be lumped in just because of that.