Did Valve go Woke?

[neonskunk]

I've been on steam a long time but after recently hearing about their partnership with Sweet Baby Inc I've been reluctant to use the platform. I've been activity boycotting any company who is involved with Sweet Baby Inc or injecting political propaganda into their media. Will you continue to support VALVE and if so why do you support Sweet Baby Inc?

[Crazy Tiger]

I don't support or care about either, I'm here to play the games I enjoy.

[Thermal Lance]

You can't escape politics. But, you can choose to only buy products you enjoy.

[Princess Luna]

Please keep boycotting. That will so much hurt noone

[neonskunk]

Originally posted by Princess Luna:

Please keep boycotting. That will so much hurt noone

Look at Concord, people voted with their dollar and look what happened

[xBCxRangers]

Idt they went "woke", they're just the one eyed monster in the land of the video gaming blind, likely due to Steam Deck and China.

If not for that, they'd be in deep doo doo like the rest of them, in the mist of the Gaming Crash of 2024.

[Odra]

Was it ever clarified what SBIs involvement with Valve was? It could've been a one time consultation and it doesn't mean Valve agreed to anything but its enough for SBI to list them as a client.

A couple of years ago Valve (allegedly) had an internal DEI group, but everyone involved in it left the company.

Problems arise when games are designed for anything other than entertainment, such as trying to change people's ideology or attempting to force them to accept something they are opposed to.

As long as Valve focuses on entertainment I'm good, it is a solid foundation to build upon.

[The nameless Gamer]

Does it matter? That won't affect the third party games on their store unless their respective publisher/developer strikes a deal with that boogeyman company.

[Nx Machina]

Why ask the question "Did Valve go Woke?"

Then answer it yourself:

Originally posted by neonskunk:

Will you continue to support VALVE and if so why do you support Sweet Baby Inc?

[The Commendatore]

It always amuses me people get pigeonholed into groups. So what if Valve is involved with SBI?

I'm here to buy games I enjoy and not care about any of that.

[Crazy Tiger]

Originally posted by neonskunk:

Originally posted by Princess Luna:

Please keep boycotting. That will so much hurt noone

Look at Concord, people voted with their dollar and look what happened

Bad games fail and that game was simply not good. People attribute it all to "wokeness", but it's more that people just *want* that to be the reason. It was just a bad game like any other bad game that failed in the history of video gaming.

[Annnnnna]

Valve is not woke, they're unbiased company, you can sell your woke games on Steam and they don't really care as long as it's not stolen assets from other games, if they truly woke, they would have permanently ban the SBI detect curator long time ago.

[kobbié]

prb go sleep.

[Yasahi]

Originally posted by neonskunk:

Originally posted by Princess Luna:

Please keep boycotting. That will so much hurt noone

Look at Concord, people voted with their dollar and look what happened

Concord failed because it was a mediocre hero shooter with numerous issues. If the gameplay was fresh and better than the competition it would have been quite a different story.

They'll probably fix some of those issues and relaunch it as free to play in order to recoup the development costs through microtransactions.

[Kargor]

Originally posted by neonskunk:

Will you continue to support VALVE

I have never "supported" Valve; I do occasionally buy games in the Steam Store, though.

and if so why do you support Sweet Baby Inc?

Right now, I wouldn't even know how to make an online store "woke".

[ShelLuser]

Even if they did have a pow wow with SBI, then so what?

From a business perspective the dumbest thing to do is ignore the other involved participants solely because "because". The very least you can do is hear 'm out. But hearing them out doesn't imply agreeing.