Any company that becomes publicly traded gets turned to the dark side. That's the factor that does it because they have a legal requirement to do everything they can to maximize profits.

Trying to sustain perpetual growth will always lead to companies fucking over their customers and employees.

[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago (11 children)

While I feel this is true there are so few privately owned companies that prove this as fact. Holds breath that steam never fucks over its customers

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

I live Valve, but there's always that nagging bit in the back of my mind reminding me that they can always turn evil in the span of a few years. And the recent debacle with Dolphin doesn't help

[–] nils@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nintendo sent them a DMCA takedown request for the Dolphin Steam page. So I don't think we can blame Steam for wanting to stay out of legal trouble

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No. That is not at all what happened. No DMCA takedown notice was ever sent in this.

What happened is that Dolphin applied to go on Steam and announced that. Then Valve emailed Nintendo asking for permission. Nintendo said they didn't want it on the store, pointed to parts of the DMCA which were not actually valid for a theoretical case, and Valve blocked Dolphin from going on Steam

[–] nils@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

You're right.

Sorry, I just heard somewhere Nintendo sent a DMCA notice and assumed it was right because that seems like a Nintendo thing to do.

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