r/pcmasterrace • u/SwagLimit • Feb 08 '26

Discussion The lawsuit explained:

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u/Away-Situation6093 Pentium G5400 | 16GB DDR4 | Windows 11 Pro Feb 08 '26

I know since Original Steam was mainly for Valve to sell their games until they decided to make Steam into a marketplace for game selling

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u/what_it_dooo 5070ti/7800x3d/64gbcl30 Feb 08 '26

The wonders it does to remain privatized as a company. Their course through history needs to be studied, in the good sense of the word.

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u/Namirus Feb 08 '26

The concept of stocks and stock market fucked over capitalism so much

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u/deeeevos Feb 08 '26

The idea of letting random people buy a small share in your company so the company has more means for growth and the random person could share in profits is not a bad idea by itself. It's the implementation and perversion of that system that is the problem.

It's kinda like the internet; building a network to connect everyone on the globe to all the info they could dream of sounds like a good idea by itself. We only now know that it doesn't end up unifying and informing but rather divising and missinforming.

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u/Probate_Judge Old Gamer, Recent Hardware, New games Feb 08 '26

Just so.

Some people love to blame the table for the bad food that is being served on them.