I’m guessing it’s because of potential scams. If someone makes an NFT game on Steam, sells a bunch of NFTs, then takes the money and runs, it’ll make Steam look bad. I don’t think the people who got scammed would have any recourse against Steam, but it’s not worth the negative attention.

Just so we’re clear, even if the crypto market held its value in the next decade or so it would still be a bad idea. Especially when it comes to integrating it with gaming.

It does seem like something they would have let run it’s course until large ticket NFTs that have flooded the marketplace are only being bought with stolen credentials.

I'm super glad this happened, but this is a pretty un-Valve move. It definitely doesn't line up with their techno-libertarian process.

My hunch is that it will age better than the blockchain record of your purchase of a receipt for a monkey jpeg at a URL that doesn’t exist anymore.

Or the bubble will burst and in 5 years NFTs are going to be even *more* of a punchline.

Activision Blizzard is the company that popularized loot boxes, made them more palatable because of the good will Blizzard built with its game franchises.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:

Lol.

Yeah, that’s never actually been a thing. It’s a lovely lie they can tell to defend their paycheck.

This is all a real shitshow. Isn’t it time that notorious misogynist Bobby Kotick left too? The lawsuit is hardly about only Blizzard, and someone actually at the top ought to take the hit for letting this all continue.

“Personally, I’ve chosen to remain subbed, but I also think boycotting is a valid response,” they told Kotaku over email. “A combination of both sides working together is what’s going to grab the leaderships’ and shareholders’ attention.”

Because that would require effort and this is a very “doing this for the money” remaster.

fucking 1st party titles [...] fuck-you money

As long as they were trying to make it look like the world’s most boring external hard drive, they succeeded admirably.

I wonder how the total salaries of the workers that got laid off compares to the salary+bonuses of the execs that made the order.

“While recognising the need to retain top executives”

This isn’t a need. It’s the biggest lie in the corporate universe, in fact.

The difference between a “top executive” and “other executives” is literally a lottery pull. The vast majority of them are staggeringly incompetent or ineffectual people that just ride…

Good. Now call for executive paycuts.

Get these executives in check on being overpaid.

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