Does Valve support Russian aggression against Ukraine?
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Does Valve support Russian aggression against Ukraine?
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Re: Does Valve support Russian aggression against Ukraine?
#2Indeed. There are quite some users in Steam supporting & promoting aggression of Russia in Ukraine, e.g.:
https://steamcommunity.com/id/666natali https://steamcommunity.com/id/mensh77/
What is the policy of Steam regarding these cases?
Re: Does Valve support Russian aggression against Ukraine?
#3It's not a surprise to anybody playing cs:go. Valve loves Russian players and their blatant propaganda is ignored, including names, avatars, flags etc. Put ukrainian flag in your avatar, russians will collectively report you, and after you are blocked, steam support will tell you to stop doing things that 'upset comunity'.
It's not even a secret on whose side Valve stands. They are not even pretending to be neutral, and their argument of keeping comunication channels open to provide Russian players with alternative information is deeply flawed, as they do active steps to stop such flow of information.
Easy solution is a boycott, gaming providers market became quite saturated in a last couple of years, there is plenty to choose from.
Re: Does Valve support Russian aggression against Ukraine?
#4Valve showing its corporate greed. Should have left months ago.
Re: Does Valve support Russian aggression against Ukraine?
#5There is a post on Reddit related to this with a load of examples of a worrying stance.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/ufvjmj/comment/i6w...
Re: Does Valve support Russian aggression against Ukraine?
#6Valve also banned ukranians being able to make purchases on steam but allowed russians for a time just after the war started.
Valve has some really weird moderators in russia.
Remember the weapon skin duplication? A russian moderator was duping rare weapon skins worth 10's of thousands of euros.
Russia is corrupt, and so is valves staff there.
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#7Does Valve employ their moderators directly in Russia?
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Re: Does Valve support Russian aggression against Ukraine?
#9This is disgusting. I've spent a ton of cash on Steam over the years. I won't buy another game on their platform again.
Re: Does Valve support Russian aggression against Ukraine?
#10What's with all these fresh accounts going "Hmmm, yes, I think this is very true, I agree 100%"? Is this an attempt to manufacture controversy?
On topic, though, Steam's community moderators are not paid by Valve, they are volunteers elected from active users of the community. Active users of the community tend to be terrible moderators, so I can absolutely see a Russian nationalist sneaking in and abusing his power.
My account was stalked, repeatedly blanked, and randomly banned from posting by a rogue moderator for over two years, after I got into an argument with him on one of the boards.