Nucas wrote on Sep 20, 2018, 12:44:
as with most things valve does on their lemonade stand platform, anything is better than what they have now. i got an email some months ago reading "Thanks for reporting inappropriate content on Steam!" and i had to think real hard about what it was; it was a steam group trading literal child pornography links that i reported in the winter of 2016. though it could have also been the white supremacist or software piracy groups i reported around that same time, to be fair. i mean, i only got the one email.

Wraith wrote on Aug 12, 2018, 12:59:
Indie developers work off a much smaller development cost/distribution ratio and many of them are digital anyway. Just because a gamedev is triple-A, doesn't mean they shouldn't be entitled to recover their costs. If that philosophy gained traction, we'd never have titles like God of War or GTA V.

Wraith wrote on Aug 11, 2018, 16:52:
Books and board games are physical media and there's a considerable number of people who regard them as physical artifacts to be retained. Again, the value is encapsulated in the media as is much of the cost.

For games, the cost equation is asymmetrical. The media is worth nothing and the cost of making the game is the assemblage of data on the media.

Used games are a moral hazard which explicitly steals from development teams. Comprehending the nuances requires a brain, a set of ethics and long term vision.

Frankly, I'm astonished that Gamesteal has been able to get away with it. In my opinion, it's theft on a massive scale.

deqer wrote on Aug 11, 2018, 16:53:
"selling a used copy of The Evil Within 2 which had never been opened"

Wraith wrote on Aug 11, 2018, 16:13:

I guess I am stupid. Please explain.

The media you buy a game on is just media and in the case of a CD, that media is worth less than a dollar.

When you buy a game you're paying for the experience. You can't then finish the game and turn around and sell that experience to someone else. That's copyright infringement and it's theft.

Wraith wrote on Aug 11, 2018, 14:06:
The used game market is theft, pure and simple. The problem is, most people are too stupid to understand this.

eRe4s3r wrote on Aug 1, 2018, 14:43:
And as for how, well, sandbox -> run exe -> look at where it connects to. Obviously requires some manual input, and that right there is the problem. Valve *REFUSES* to manually check files before they are pushed online as in, can be bought. Only when someone complains do they check the "package" on their servers manually...

eRe4s3r wrote on Aug 1, 2018, 10:01:
Literally the day Monero came out with this bullshit excuse of an CLEARLY only-good-for-criminals mining method people predicted it'd be used for exactly this. Hidden crypto miners in shareware and demos, early access and assorted. This is also the reason Monero has been called (by the boss of the world bank) as a currency made for, and maintained by, a criminal organization. (*cough* MAFIA *COUGH*

Ps.: Why is your email address the thread title? Fix your password app, that's a security issue ;p

jdreyer wrote on Aug 1, 2018, 01:36:
I hear what you are saying Bistro, but it would be nice if Valve, by far the industry leader, could be more proactive. For years now, everything has been just react, react, react.

Frijoles wrote on Jul 31, 2018, 12:20:
I'd like to see Valve release a Steam Premier which is basically a curated form of their store. Leave Steam up with all the shit that goes with it for people who like to live dangerously. Steam Premier could be like old Steam. Same app, just a different section of it.

Primalchrome wrote on Jul 10, 2018, 11:52:
Free speech doesn't mean there aren't repercussions to being a closeminded dirtbag.