It's to keep people from doing stuff like requiring refunds or court cases for being banned, VAC or otherwise. To make some things not technically gambling, etc.

Valve is the paragon of gamers. They offer a great portal, free no bs family shares, pressure companies into sales on legacy software. Push VR from meme status (the oculus is even originally stolen valve tech look it up). Steam stream, steam controller, steam deck emulation of Nintendo switch, Jesus it's endless.

And still there are people like you out here who have to lead with complaints about a bunch of text which everyone knows is exclusively for legal piss matches against companies and troublemakers.

I don't know how you can be pleased by anything. Isn't your life tiring living the life of a zealot? Or do you have just an unsatisfiable need to complain?

[–] sfgifz@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The company may be nice now and it's okay to be happy with them, but that doesn't mean you attack the personality of someone for pointing out factual information written in your beloved companies agreements.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

I will never ever understand how a normal person can ever worship / love a corporation.... It has to be some kind of mental illness.

Corporations DO NOT CARE ABOUT YOU! Sooner or later they will fuck you unless you are constantly pushing back against them and keeping them on their toes. Relaxing, just becuase Steam is good right now, is not a option.

[–] blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don’t know how you can be pleased by anything. Isn’t your life tiring living the life of a zealot? Or do you have just an unsatisfiable need to complain?

wtf man. Did someone shit in your breakfast cereal or something?

[–] UnderwaterSwift@sh.itjust.works -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You're the one getting mad at steam for things they could "maybe" do in the future. Stop incepting yourself with fantasy and then posting about it. "Hey guys you won't BELIEVE what's in this EULA" "Did you know TECHNICALLY valve could just do whatever they want?!?"

From your post history you're older, you know EULAs are so ignored across the board that they're there for entirely legal reasons. Oh yeah a company that has done all this good, (for you especially, without valve it's safe to say there would be ZERO Linux gaming support like there is now.) But we better be ready for something that's just completely antithetical to their history of actions because of some creative writing episode you've dreamed up. Corporations are bad capitalism is bad, open software and Linux gaming only please. No rights, no AAA just indie titles and slow burn, artistically crafted projects of love.

You're like the vegans of computer science you're insufferable.

[–] leave_it_blank@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Had a bad day?

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 7 points 10 months ago

Again, just because Valve hasn't screwed us over yet is no excuse for assuming they never will.

[–] Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

People probably felt the same way Unity's relatively fair licensing terms, or D&D's license. They've rolled back now, but it's common for companies to push this sort of thing, roll back, and then slowly introduce the same thing.

The point is not to avoid Steam, but to keep an eye out for scummy moves because no entity operating for profit is immune to temptation. Be ready to abandon ship should the time come or you'll be the one left holding the bag.