StingingVelvet wrote on Jul 31, 2012, 22:42:
Yes, Valve fucked my mom when she was depressed and vulnerable and now I am out for revenge.
The simple fact is you see a lot of negative posts about them specifically because they are the only company that gets praised and loved while doing the same evil shit as other companies that get bashed for it do. Hence me consistently trying to point out they are just another greedy business to be wary of. Hence constantly fighting that hypocrisy so perfectly displayed below.
Continue to ignore it all though and pretend I am a Valve hating nutter (with 320 Steam games) to suit your point of view, though.
I can accept that you say your attitude being largely negative towards Valve and Steam on these boards is more of a counterpoint to the largely positive overall view of them here on Blues than it is a general hate-on you have for Valve. But having been here a while like you have you ought to be aware of how quick this crowd will turn on a company when they screw up or "act evil" as you put it. I'm curious as to how, then, you account for the generally positive view this board (which is known for its negativity about, well,
everything) has maintained for Valve and Steam. If Valveis truly the equal in word and deed of the likes of EA and Ubisoft, why are they spared (comparitively speaking) the vitriol that those and other companies are bombarded with (and most deservedly so if you ask me) on Bluesnews? I wonder if you doubt that people can actually continue to be a fan of something while still acknowledging its faults and shortcomings.
Make no mistake; there's a lot of what Valve does makes me less than thrilled to say the least, and for everything that Steam does right there's an equally long list of crappy policies andboneheaded shit that they've yet to fix. That said, both Valve and Steam are orders of magnitude better than EA and Origin, Ubisoft, Blizzard, Gamestop, Gamefly, and Microsoft (specifically their game division) in my book.
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