Note: Piracy is not an answer. I understand why, and do agree to a certain extent... But sometimes, the happiness gained by playing something from a legitimate source is far greater 🥹... coming from someone who could never ever afford to purchase games, nor could my parents... Hence I've always played bootleg, or pirated games.

TL;DR

What's wrong?

Their launcher has a terrible UI AND UX.
They make exclusive deals with studios to prevent other platforms from getting games. (Someone mentioned that Steam did the same thing in their infancy. Also, I have another question; why is it ok for Sony and Microsoft to make exclusive games for their consoles but not ok for these PC platforms to do so?)
They have been invested in by a Chinese company, Tencent. (Someone mentioned that it isn't that big of a deal, but idk.)
They are actively anti-linux for some reason.

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[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Loot boxes were, if not invented by them, definitely popularised.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

and/or happened 9+ years ago

That was like 15 years ago hahaha

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s not a trend they abandoned - Counter Strike is still a huge source of deceptive digital item trade. It also spread to Team Fortress 2 in the meantime.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Didn’t TF2 have it first?

I made soooo much money off’a TF2. Bought an index!

[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I'm sure it did start with tf2 and dota 2 has them too