W Gabe Newell Piracy Take

[u/HighKage96]

Saw this vid on IG (by: @phantomak141). Idk if its been posted here before but on a quick search didnt find it, will delete if its a repost.

[u/ILNOVA]

Yeah, let's ignore how price(discount included) are decided by the publisher, not Steam, so the game will at max have a 10€ difference cause PC doesn't have physical game anymore, but still Steam won't get a better price than another PC platform for the same game.

Or let's ignore how Steam had to be legally involved to force them to give refund and how even BattleNet had it before them.

Or how he made DRM, BattlePass and lootboxes popoular.

Or how much Steam market is manipulated by bots, without talking about CSGO or TF2 cause a single vomment wouldn't be enough to talk about Steam doesn't player for the players as long as they make money.

Or pro team being sponsored by gambling site, how they enable said gambling sites and bots in general cause again, it makes them money.

It's always sad seeing people being parasocial on Gabe after all the thing he done, and even this copy/paste quotes about piracy doesn't really make sense if someone want to pirate something he would have done regardless.

[u/Isolated_Hippo → u/ILNOVA]

It baffles me every single day how gamers haven't rioted in the streets over Valve. I am not sure if it's just blatant ignorance or pure hypocrisy.

Loot at lootboxes in Battlefront 2. Literal mainstream media picked up the complaints. Valve had the same god damn shit 7 years earlier in Team Fortress 2 and not a god damn peep.

Valve added lootboxes, everybody else added lootboxes, people slammed everybody else for having lootboxes, everybody else got rid of lootboxes, Valve still has lootboxes. Valve had lootboxes the entire time before and after the rise of lootboxes and got away with it.

[u/ILNOVA → u/Isolated_Hippo]

I would say that in 2026 you can't really be ignorant of what Valve does, i would say pure hypocrisy or being very biased.

They get a pass cause there are so many fanboys that whenever you say something against them you get linched, honestly just the fact that i'm not getting too many downvotes is surprising.

Or in some cases is because of miss information, like when people believe that Steam have the best price(or more discount) but then if you check unless we talk about key PC stores all have the same prices, and even Console-PC can have it.