New Hampshire Senator Maggie Hassan sent Valve a letter decrying the vast amount of white supremacist imagery in its user generated content and community spaces.

Well because uhmm. Gamers just use it ironically you know. Free speech. Elon Musk help me, they want to persecute gamers. Gamers.

  • 7bicycles [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    and they outright said “nah” to NFTs.

    Considering TF2 hats this seems much more a case of not wanting competition instead of standing for anything at all

      • 7bicycles [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        basically everything monetized valve "Invented" is NFTs. Except the schmucks didn't even invent them, gear trading via real money was going on within WoW for a decade before they did it.

      • neo [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        no, because they don't go through the energy intensive minting process, and inflate the prices of GPUs which prevents me from buying one 😡

    • neo [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Valve could have implemented a blockchain based record of the cosmetics for their own games (i.e. NFTs), or even gone as far as to recreate a games ownership/resale system based on the concept... so the seriousness of them disallowing that altogether shouldn't be understated. Other game companies were flirting with this idea very seriously just a year ago.