A new Dutch class action has been filed against Valve Corporation, the company behind Steam. The case is brought by the Stichting Consumenten Competition Claims (CCC), which has launched the proceedings under the name GameClaim. The foundation acts on behalf of all Dutch PC gamers who have purchased games through Steam or other PC distribution platforms since 2013, IGN Benelux reports.
And no one will do anything to stop it—just hoping and praying that Gabe doesn’t die or turns ‘evil’ to them.
Well, I’m not buying Steam games anymore, so I’m doing my part 🤷
That doesn’t actually do anything…
Opting out of buying from a service only hurts them when the service is anti consumer.
When the service is large due to pro consumer reasons then not buying just hurts yourself.
An anti consumer service relies on momentum to maintain it self. Hoping people are too lazy to leave. Since growing the customer base is near impossible with out dirty tactics.
A pro consumer service grows regardless, since it’s the best option. It doesn’t have to do dirty things to grow a customer base since by default the other options are worse.
If you just stop buying games entirely then you also do not matter you removed yourself entire from the equation.
You would need to start buying games from non valve sources that are in direct competition with valve. So things like the Amazon store, Uplay, etc.
Which do the same things and worse.
Functionally you do not get a choice of voting with your wallet. Because it doesn’t apply here. So all your doing is being stupid at worse and nothing at best for the cause.
You ARNT the customer being hurt here. You can’t vote with your wallet. The game studios and devs are the customer in question. THEY have to vote with their wallet by not putting games on steam.
You as a gamer physically can’t vote with your wallet unless you directly go to the competition.
“Doing something actually does nothing, just don’t do anything”
If you want to religiously be cucked by all of big tech and their USAian buddies, go ahead. Just don’t try and convince me to take the dick because you like it. Keep that sodomy to yourself.
P.S if you think Steam is the only way to get “ethically” get games, you’re even a bigger cuck than I thought.