Setting Valve aside for a moment, people used to think Sony wasn’t as bad as Microsoft. The truth is, they’ve always been worse. Big on exclusives and third-party exclusives, and opposed to cross-play and cross-progression, they’ve always been a company for shareholders first and gamers not even a distant second.

I think the things that made Sony really bad was all the DRM shenanigans they pulled off. but all of these are not common knowledge I guess, the bad things Microsoft did/does appeared more in the press, and still do. all the while, Sony does not do much these days other than their locked down gaming console, do they?

Valve isn’t your friend. None of these companies are.

that’s right. However, the way I see it, they are doing the least of the bad things, and they are even contributing significantly to future I want to live in, in contrast to the other two. that’s something to consider.