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Was valve ever good to begin with? Their main products is a useless proprietary software launcher and they make billions off abducting kids into gambling and selling their data.
I loathe their lootbox system but I'd say valve is better than their rivals in most places. I'd put them far above Epic, Playstation, and Xbox for their games marketplace, far above meta in the VR space and on par with the game developers I respect in basically every aspect except lootboxes.
I don't think we should respect, like or trust any large businesses but Valve is certainly the lesser evil of many choices.
You don't need a proprietary launcher to run software. A company who abduct kids into gambling to make more billions to me sound quite bad.
I don't think Valve sells much data? But yeah, even Dota 2 has become just another infinite lootbox hellscape, and I have a couple other complaints for them as well.
They keep it for fun
I went over and checked their terms earlier and it states they never sell your data and its internal uses are also laid out in thw document that users sign.