Today also seems like a good time to re-post this
Wow I didn’t know about the trans employee mistreatment & firing or the cuts to community content creation earnings…
Y’all this is a really good article. While I’m sure most people (including myself) have realized over the past five years that Valve isn’t what we used to think it was, it’s always good to have a professionally cited and written reminder that their extremely powerful combination of free market ideology and communal support are nothing more than an extremely powerful facade hiding a corporation with nearly unimaginable profit margins.
Valve doesn’t have the longstanding horrible public reputation for employee mistreatment and blatant anti-consumer strategizing that companies like EA do, but that doesn’t mean their real, existing offences(highlighted in this article) should be stuffed under a rug of memes.
I’m reblogging this to my other Valve gif blogs so if you’re following more than one of them, ehh, sorry.
Valve is not your friend, and Steam is not healthy for gaming
theclumsiestninja 