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[–] [email protected] 89 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Steam is successful because they're the only company in that market treating customers right.

I'd be very upset if the courts side with EA.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 months ago (1 children)

and because they are not publicly traded company.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago

Well that's why they actually do right by their customers. That said I definitely agree

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They're also one of the few (possibly only) that has not gone public.

Just a coincidence, I'm sure.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There are plenty of private companies that are shitty too. It definitely helps being private (and maybe is a requirement?), but you also have to have the right owners for private companies to be good.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

For sure... Just one more reason to adopt co-determination laws like those in Germany.

Public or private, if the board of the company actually contained literal workers, it could make things so much better.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Wait what's going on in the courts between valve and EA?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

What are EA doing with Valve? The lawsuit this came from is between Wolfire Games and Valve; far as I can tell, Valve and EA work together on some stuff.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Steam could use better search. Ideally I'd like to be able to just use SQL, but I understand why not.

There's been a few times where I wanted to find something in Steam, but spent most of the emotion on clicks and fucks before launching something, concluding that yeah, I wanted this, and stopping it because I don't want this anymore.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Steam DB has a pretty decent search. It's not SQL but the filters are a bit better.

I know how you feel tho - so few consumer orgs give us an advanced search worth it's salt. I want to have (x AND y) OR z, or maybe x AND (y OR z)... Not whichever specific combination was preordained for me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I know it's not as horrible as some.

If only this were still a thing in search engines.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I still can't figure out how their search filters work.

It always blocks games with violence whether I have all filters checked or unchecked