Re: What To Do, Valve?

On 09/06/2025 19:01, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On the other hand, I understand Valve's reluctance. Russia is a/huge/
market for Valve. The Russian-speaking demographics constitute ten
percent of its users (almost as much as the Spanish, German, French,
Japanese-speaking users combined*). So financially its understandable
if Valve is hesitant to risk that revenue (even if its likely a lot of
this traffic is generated by bots manipulating Steam's gambling
marketplace). And surely we can't ask a company to ever not do
anything for a profit, right?

A hypothetically is what would Valve do if say a pro-Palestinian game was released, maybe This War of Mine set in Gaza. I'm pretty sure they wouldn't allow it anywhere near their store front due to the backlash it would receive for being 'anti-Semitic'.