Piracy and its interactions with indie development are way more nuanced than that, but sure, yeah, Valve is a corporation like any other corporation. That’s all I’m saying.
That their branding work spares them a lot of criticism and judgement from the same industry-standard practices that are seen as an affront elsewhere in both game development and the larger online content creation industry.
Well yeah, most companies get out of criticism via branding. Look at plastics and how it was lied that it was recyclable when most plastic goes straight to landfill.
Piracy and its interactions with indie development are way more nuanced than that, but sure, yeah, Valve is a corporation like any other corporation. That’s all I’m saying.
That their branding work spares them a lot of criticism and judgement from the same industry-standard practices that are seen as an affront elsewhere in both game development and the larger online content creation industry.
Well yeah, most companies get out of criticism via branding. Look at plastics and how it was lied that it was recyclable when most plastic goes straight to landfill.