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Steam is a ticking time bomb (www.spacebar.news)

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's also the reason Steam is effectively immune to enshittification.

1000% disagree. There are endless shitty private companies. Valve is only not shitty because of Gabe. And also they're not completely free of shit.

Their 30% fees are insane and they pretty much invented microtransactions.

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