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  • Re: What To Do, Valve?

    From Zaghadka@21:1/5 to Spalls Hurgenson on Mon Jun 9 16:57:32 2025
    On Mon, 09 Jun 2025 14:01:21 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,
    Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

    What to do, Valve? That's a real easy problem. Kick "Squad 22 ZOV" out
    of your store.

    Better yet, bury it algorithmically.

    That's how it's done today. The old ways are not always the best ways.

    --
    Zag

    What's the point of growing up
    if you can't be childish sometimes? ...Terrance Dicks, BBC

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  • From rms@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jun 9 16:56:14 2025
    So... I guess we'll talk about "Squad 22: ZOV".

    Ugh. Thanks for bringing it to our attention :(

    rms

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to Spalls Hurgenson on Tue Jun 10 09:58:40 2025
    On 09/06/2025 19:01, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
    On the other hand, I understand Valve's reluctance. Russia is a/huge/
    market for Valve. The Russian-speaking demographics constitute ten
    percent of its users (almost as much as the Spanish, German, French, Japanese-speaking users combined*). So financially its understandable
    if Valve is hesitant to risk that revenue (even if its likely a lot of
    this traffic is generated by bots manipulating Steam's gambling
    marketplace). And surely we can't ask a company to ever not do
    anything for a profit, right?

    A hypothetically is what would Valve do if say a pro-Palestinian game
    was released, maybe This War of Mine set in Gaza. I'm pretty sure they
    wouldn't allow it anywhere near their store front due to the backlash it
    would receive for being 'anti-Semitic'.

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