sleepysocksplummousiopebut valve letting racism remarks slide in their games it would bring a far more negative publicity and force them no fix the game since we all know they dont give a fuck about the cheating part
It's well known that Valve makes most of its money from the Steam Store, and is also a private comany. This insulates them from a lot of motivation to do anything the public wants. Comparison example: You can be sexist in any CS lobby, but be banned in any Riot game.
i mean valve makes a shitton of money from microtransactions. they made like one billion from just key sales for CS last year. obviously they make the bulk from the steam store but lootbux isn't a drop in the bucket for them. they just don't give a fuck in general about anything other than their weird doodads they're working on and maintaining constant revenue sources
mousiopeBut if you say that valve does nothing about transphobic comments and that gets in the news, I'm sure valve execs got to do something about the negative publicity. In fact when the first save tf2 movement came out that was the only reason they did something...
Cmon...
i mean i guess, although i don't think it's still going to be that effective. the internal culture at valve doesn't really seem to incentivize actually working on a 17 year old first person shooter with a decently sized playerbase. which is a shame considering i think it's one of the favorite games of like every poster on this forum
titanfall 2 suffered from a similar issue where the servers kept getting ddos by a bunch of morons to the point where you couldnt find a game through the official client and it got completely fixed and its fully playable nowadays and the game makes a fraction of what tf2 makes
this is pure valve negligence and the fact they need every bit of negative publicity to come their way to even do something regarding this its baffling to me
but its pretty safe to say they clearly dont give a fuck