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From: JAB <noway@nochance.com>
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Subject: Re: What To Do, Valve?
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2025 09:58:40 +0100
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On 09/06/2025 19:01, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> On the other hand, I understand Valve's reluctance. Russia is a/huge/
> market for Valve. The Russian-speaking demographics constitute ten
> percent of its users (almost as much as the Spanish, German, French,
> Japanese-speaking users combined*). So financially its understandable
> if Valve is hesitant to risk that revenue (even if its likely a lot of
> this traffic is generated by bots manipulating Steam's gambling
> marketplace). And surely we can't ask a company to ever not do
> anything for a profit, right?

A hypothetically is what would Valve do if say a pro-Palestinian game 
was released, maybe This War of Mine set in Gaza. I'm pretty sure they 
wouldn't allow it anywhere near their store front due to the backlash it 
would receive for being 'anti-Semitic'.