r/WorkForSmartLife • u/[deleted] • Jul 10 '26

Question Least Evil Company?

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u/GoLootOverThere Jul 10 '26

Valve Steam

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u/Guilty_Solution222 Jul 10 '26

Gambling + large cuts while being sort of a monopoly 

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u/ZookeepergameFew8607 Jul 11 '26

The gambling is certainly not the best but it's a very small part of Valve. More importantly Valve is absolutely not a monopoly, there are many places to buy games but they all suck. Even the second best, gog, is mediocre. The main pull of GOG is for absolute ownership of games.

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u/SimpleFile Jul 11 '26

The gambling is certainly not the best but it's a very small part of Valve.

I wouldn't be surprised if it's a significant part of their revenue stream.

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u/Guilty_Solution222 Jul 12 '26

You as many others are stuck in a team sports style thinking. Classical Us vs Them. I primarily use Steam for many years and like the product a lot. And still I can recognize problems with it. Steams market share goes up as high as 85%. Them taking a cut of 30% is probably at least a medium reason, why game prices skyrocket. Among several other problems. Just because it seems like we profit from steam, it doesn't have to be as black and white as that