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They need to get rid of Steam to begin rolling out cloud computing. They've already started the phase were people can no longer realistic build the rigs they could build a year ago.
You are right, they are all bad. Singling out any company isn't helping out. That's the problem with this lawsuit, it is not legislative, it is going only after one company under the telltale of politicization "it's for the children" with a fair amount of false accusations that "CS2 and other FPSs are causing kids to become violent". This is to build up Leticia James' political career by going after an easier target that does not have the political ties other marketplaces have and it will not fix the system, but just allow the competitors to thrive.
Now that doesn't mean she's doing as part of some conspiratorial shift to cloud computing, it just means that the parties interested in that shift generally encourage and do nothing to oppose this sort of intervention whereas in the past it might have been opposed to because of the hurdle of precedence they could help to establish - which no longer matters as much because half the Supreme Court is corrupt anyway and can just hallucinate the precedence away in an exercise of mental gymnastics in their opinion.
You don't think it matters, just look at the shitshow YouTube is increasingly becoming, because that's what a lot of rich assholes want to appropriate and coerce Steam into becoming. Fear the day Steam goes public.
I think you're probably right. I still think it's important to point out that this lawsuit, even if successful, won't take down Valve. Steam and CS2 will still be around. If it is successful, it might force other platforms to change how they handle lootboxes too. Singling out Valve won't mean that steam is down and we all need to use the Epic store. The flaws of this lawsuit and it's motivations don't mean that we need to excuse Valves bad behavior. You aren't doing that here but many people feel the need to pick sides. We can call out the lawsuit for being largely a political stunt and call out Valve for profiting off of child gambling.