• GameStop is hoping somebody will buy its Canadian and French operations.
  • This amounts to over 500 physical stores across both nations.
  • The company’s CEO decried “Liberalism, Socialism, Progressivism, Wokeness and DEI” within his firm while shopping for a buyer.
  • cdf12345@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    4 days ago

    Counterpoint: Steam

    I’m thinking it’s more that public companies have a legal obligation to provide increasing value to their shareholders, so stay private, don’t be a dick. Grow at a reasonable pace. Avoid enshitification.

    • Kichae@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      4 days ago

      I don’t know where gamers’ hard-on for Valve comes from. They’re a monopolist software developer whose biggest product is a middle-man DRM platform masquerading as a game library utility. Their whole schtick is increasing the cost of your games, and limiting your right to access those games how, when, and where you want. Yet somehow, they’re the darling of the gaming scene.

      It’s fucking bizarre.

    • Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      3·
      4 days ago

      Steam not only profits wildly from underage gambling, but by being close to a monopoly. They take 30% from every game sold, which is more than they need. They can take that much due to their de-facto storefront existance.

      Steam delivers amazing services, pcgaming would not be where it is without valve, but even with their radical work policies and good wages for their workers they still have quite a bit of problems.

    • bob_lemon@feddit.org
      2·
      4 days ago

      Steam is partially funded by underage gambling. They know about this. They could literally shut it down within hours.

      They’re better than most, but that is a major moral failure they don’t get nearly enough flak for.

      • JokeDeity@lemm.ee
        0·
        4 days ago

        I’m truly failing to think of any major game publisher not making money from children gambling. Nintendo does it, so do Sony and Microsoft. Unless it’s an indie publisher with a small handful of games, basically every single company is guilty of this.

        • Sonori@beehaw.org
          3·
          4 days ago

          A lot of game publishers have micro transaction gambling, most don’t have a mult-million dollar real money casino’s built on their infrastructure and a business model based on teenagers watching CSGO gambling streams.

          Obligatory Coffeezilla video