Comments by "This Channel" (@thischannel1071) on "Louis Rossmann" channel.

Valve didn't do this to be altruistic. They did it because they were facing 75,000 individual arbitration cases, with the legal costs to be all paid by Valve. Gabe isn't very pro-consumer.
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This is a ludicrous diatribe. I haven't followed the full drama between LTT and GN, but I've seen enough to know that Louis is spouting lots of ignorance and filling in gaps with his imagination. This makes Louis sound like a dumb loser.
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People are misunderstanding why Valve did this. It wasn't to be good to consumers, but actually to out-maneuver them and avoid being accountable to them. Valve demanded arbitration to avoid losing money and experiencing legal precedence to class-action lawsuits. Law firms finally discovered that they can just file tens of thousands of individual arbitration cases against Valve instead of doing a class action on behalf of thousands of people. So, that's what they did. Valve was facing 75,000 individual arbitration cases, each to have their legal costs covered by Valve, in addition to whatever case awards would be paid out to the claimants. So, Valve abandoned their arbitration demand and said they'll allow class-action suits instead. Valve is just weaseling out of its own previous weaseling.
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Because instead of facing a class-action lawsuit, they were facing 75,000 individual arbitration cases, each to be paid for completely by Valve. That doesn't even include the damages they'd owe each of the claimants. Valve did this change for the same reason they demanded arbitration in the first place: to save themselves a lot of money they should be responsible to pay out for trampling on consumer rights.
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Valve didn't do this to be altruistic. They did it because they were facing 75,000 individual arbitration cases, with the legal costs to be all paid by Valve. As its track-record of legal arguments against game-purchaser rights shows (some of which have been shot down by courts), Steam isn't particularly pro-consumer.
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