• Crotaro@beehaw.org
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      2 months ago

      Yeah. The clown award (and similar “derogatory” awards) giving the receiver Steam points is the worst thing that happened to the quality of posts/comments on the Steam forums. The first two comment pages on patchnotes of games like Helldivers 2 are almost exclusively pointfarmers doing their best to reap clown awards.

      • Sas [she/her]@beehaw.org
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        2 months ago

        The worst part about it is that they usually pretend to be a queer person demanding queer representation in games in the most rude way possible and then people take this shit serious and take it out on actual queer people.

        • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          take it out on actual queer people.

          I mean, considering how awful the kind of folks who would do such a thing are, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to say that’s probably the ulterior goal. Getting Steam points is just a bonus on top of helping convince other abusive right winger dipshits that queer people need to be attacked because of the fake queer people they made up.

  • HouseWolf@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    I’m gonna hope it’s a troll.

    But some people are really weird about “owning” games. The other day I was in a call with someone who spend hours hunting through dodgy key selling sites to buy a delisted Steam game at nearly twice the price…

    And yes I told them where else they could get it but they cared more about having the game appear on their Steam list than actually playing it.

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      even if it’s not. There’s just a severe lack of thinking skills here. What do they think happens to the pirate copies people already downloaded will happen when drm is added to the store version? There’s a reason we keep saying DRM only punish legitimate customers.

      Clearly these kind of people have relinquished their ability to think and let ads do the thinking for them.