New information has come to light about Valve’s alleged anti-competitive practices, and if what they say is true, it doesn’t look good.
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- 22 days
Summary using Kagi Summarizer (yes, A.I. , but I don’t want to watch a click bait vid that takes too long to get to the point):
Recent documents from the Wolffire lawsuit against Valve have brought to light allegations of monopolistic behavior concerning pricing parity. The report suggests that Valve has pressured publishers, including Ubisoft and Warner Brothers, to maintain price consistency across platforms by threatening to delist their games from Steam. While Valve representatives have denied the existence of a formal policy, internal communications indicate that this practice has been used to influence pricing on external storefronts. The legal proceedings serve as a crucial mechanism to uncover the truth behind these alleged practices. Regardless of the trial’s outcome, the transparency gained from these documents allows the public to scrutinize whether Valve has abused its dominant position in the PC gaming market. If proven true, these actions raise significant questions about corporate power and the freedom of developers to set prices independently of Steam.
22 daysI for myself am happy for that summary. I think one can’t deny that YouTube videos often can be summarized by a few sentences and what the summary provides in this case allows people to participate in the topic discussion without having to watch the video.
- 22 days
Don’t waste comment space by lazily pasting in the output of an AI, you bring down the quality of conversation here.
Use your damn brain.
If you think the video is clickbait (it is not, Nerdnest is a massive fan of the Steam Deck/Steam) and you are too mentally incapable of checking yourself, just keep scrolling and don’t bother interacting next time please.
- Quibblekrust@thelemmy.clubEnglish2 days
You don’t speak for all of us. I appreciated the summary.
Also, you’re being a real dick about it. “Mentally incapable”? Maybe you need to break from the internet.
- 2 days
Ok sorry I got frustrated, this AI stuff is very frustrating and I am pretty damn worried it is going to send my country into a depression because of how much fake money is being tossed around… but you are right I shouldn’t have used the phrase “mentally incapable” like that, this is complicated stuff, life is hard, and that is a valid point that being ableist about isn’t productive for anyone or anything so fair enough I am sorry about that.
I don’t apologize for being a dick though, just because my tone is harsh doesn’t mean I am the one doing the damage here, the people lost in the sauce about AI are going to ruin real human lives with this when it comes crashing down, so to be clear I apologize specifically for being ableist because you are right that was shitty.
- 22 days
I’ve followed the nerd nest since before they were the nerd nest. Unfortunately their videos have gotten longer, while the information that I am interested in hasn’t grown along with it, so either:
- I have to actively search through the video or its transcript, OR…
- I have to suffer through 5 minutes of random crap I don’t care about or already knew, to find the one thing mentioned in the title, that made me click.
- 19 days
It didn’t have to be this way
Yup, I know exactly what this video is going to be about, definitely not a click bait title, lol.
The topic is interesting, the video apparently not so much (if it needs that title to do well). So I think AI is acceptable here, given that no one else bothered to provide a summary so people don’t need to waste time watching it.
