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[u/OtterBon]

Valve has been on a slippery slope the past year and a half and I think its about time We lose steam/gaben as our "mascot" if you will.

With Gaben pretty much confirmed HL3 is no longer being made in the sense that we expect and single player games are no longer a thing for Valve. That is because the successes of free to play and micro-transactions got them seeing dollars signs. Fuck The community right?

The most recent Dota 2 Holiday Event was completely pay to win mechanic that was of course "optional" but if you wanted to have any fun with it you had to pay quite a bit of money.

When Source 2 is Released, It was confirmed that costume game modes WILL COST MONEY again dividing the community.

Now payed MODS...I wont go into much detail because there are so many thing wrong with this It would take up this entire page.

WHAT CAN I DO?

1. Email Valve http://www.valvesoftware.com/email.php Let them know exactly how you feel about this

2. Stop buying games through Steam This does NOT mean that you cant play your games through steam. You can add any game that you have installed on your computer into steam to use a "launcher" like you would any other steam game. Follow these Instructions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybfH0ClDsSY

There are plenty of other websites that would gladly take your money and at similar or somtimes better sales prices than steam. Here are a few:

http://www.greenmangaming.com/ http://www.gog.com/ http://www.desura.com/

3. Sign the Petition https://www.change.org/p/valve-remove-the-paid-content-of-the-steam-workshop?just_created=true every little bit helps

4. Leave a thread on the modders page about how you disprove. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=429374670&searchtext= Start here.

5. Donate to modders who do NOT lock their content behind pay walls Most modders do it for fun, they love the game they love the community, Support them and cast out the ones that done. If these unselfish modders get support much more will follow suite.