Hence why we should be fighting for rights with digital goods. eBooks can be checked out at the library, albeit not without multiple fights to get something relatively fair, and there’s no good reason why this can’t be implemented for all other digital goods, other than like you said, corporate greed.

You’ll own nothing and like it.

• capitalism.

Well said.

I disagree. They’re are a multi billion dollar company that is the defacto/largest distributor, they’ve got the clout to push for effective change and they’ve been vocally against the secondary market or transfers, including on death.

Also you said it yourself, they could easily do this for the games they publish and yet here we are.

I do appreciate they keep delisted games around at least.

That’s nice. You’re wrong, but that’s nice.

Sure, here are my small list personal list of gripes, mostly minor except the first one.

• Their continued stance on loot boxes and enabling of gambling.
• They did try to do a paid mod system back in the day and got shutdown by gamers pretty quick.
• Their initial discontinuation of batteries and LCD screens for their steam deck after only four years.
• Their continued stance that they are selling revokable, non-transferable licenses and not games that you own.

Steam’s a great company and overall very pro-consumer company in my opinion, more so than most of the other companies in the PC gaming realm but I’ll criticize Steam when I see something I believe is anti-consumer regardless of my like for them because end of they day they’re still just a corporation that prioritizes profits over people and it’s just one death away from being enshitified like the rest of them.

Ah, moving goalposts now I see. CAH has provided the forms to submit your receipt and get your refund and go ask about how effective it is yourself because I wasn’t arguing or making a case about effectiveness.

I’m simply arguing that there are companies that are trying to be decent companies and pro-consumer, not arguing about the effectiveness of their pro-consumer stance.

While we’re at it let’s just get your whataboutism that you’ll also try to pull out of the way, yes most corporations will also not be making any moves to refund their customers when they get their illegal tariffs refunded and that also makes them anti-consumer asshats.

Yeah, like Cards Against Humanity spotted the difference and decided to not be anti-consumer asshats.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91500865/tariff-refund-cards-against-humanity-trump

Yeah, it’s honestly very sad to see people defend these gaming corporations blindly, yes, including Steam, when they’re doing anti-consumer things.

100% agree.

It’s also like to add that passing on my games to my kids and the ability to sell my keys should also be on the table.

It should be simply required by law of companies if you ask me and why I donate to groups like Stop Killing Games.

Yup. It’s completely false advertising and dangerous to call something Full Self-Driving or Autopilot when it clearly does not do what the common understanding of the names imply.

Something about if you buy something but it can be taken away from you arbitrarily by the company…

So no mosquito bites but I’m going to get cat bites instead…

So once again the world proves yet again whatever Trump touches turns to shit as the US loses 4 to fucking 1.

Yeah, we get it, you love Nazis.

Thanks but I’d like to not read Billy Madison’s lecture on thermal dynamics based on magic and fairy dust.

Well that comment wins my Billy Madison comment of the day.

There’s a big difference between a CEO that openly hates unions and has affairs or a software developer making 100k a year that makes racist AF on Facebook vs a CEO that’s literally keeping a bunch of Nazis afloat and giving them an outsized voice.

Also, there’s no best option when it comes to Nazis because if you give them an inch, they’ll subvert democracy and human decency.

It’s not a “tiny” amount of money, this dude is the CEO who makes all of the money in the company and any money going to Nazis is problematic especially when the Nazis in question are almost fully funded by this CEO and yes the CEO is the face and moral driver of a company.

Pretty ironic saying the company supports free speech when the biggest money maker is bankrolling a group that specifically gasses free speech and I doubt the other working there have even a sliver of speech that the CEO does.