Well, not really. There was a time when it was Valve staff and volunteer moderators under their direction. But that was before their discussion forums got integrated into Steam directly and there was a bajillion games on it.
Though I am confident they could actually hire people to handle it if they wanted to. Or were forced to. Steam makes a bit of profit, I'm sure.
I'm interested in Norse mythology for stories like the time Thor had to wear a dress to get back his hammer. I bet he looked hot in that dress.
Wasn't it co-opted by racists around 2016 or something? They also took the "OK" finger gesture from the circle game, the fuckers.
Barnacles exist just so Valve can say "haha made you look up."
With a name like that, they'll be back.
Moon Man? Like the old McDonald's commercial? How the fuck is that a hateful or extremist symbol? Because anyone who remembers it must be extreme for burgers?
Afaik, the discussion boards for individual games are not moderated by Valve staff (outside of their own titles and the general discussions not tied to any specific game), but by the developer of the game. And it pretty much is ignored by everyone outside of a few indie devs that either just believe in transparency and use the boards themselves, or because they have huge egos and act like little tyrants being the worst kind of Reddit/Discord mod. The only in-between is the automated systems that work off reports and filters.
This game is epic and I never hear anyone talking about it.
Maybe they have Barq's. It's caffeinated root beer.
I used to wonder why someone didn't just make a Linux distro that could natively run Windows programs until the whole copyright shit was explained to me; can't incorporate DirectX and other crap without permission yadda yadda...
Now I just wonder why someone hasn't done it anyway just because fuck Microsoft and because if they don't even distribute it, how would they have actually broken a law? Make the world's most perfect OS; and then keep it to yourself. Be a sick flex.
As much as I love BG3, it isn't really an example of what RPGs can do now. I mean, it's not much different from how BG1 and 2 play. Different base rules, prettier graphics and presentation. RPGs have been able to be as good as BG3 since pretty much always. It's just, companies don't spend time on the writing, logic, or QA and focus entirely on pretty pictures and marketing.
I think with today's level of computing power, RPGs could be even more than all of these examples, even if they are already good.
"We invented democracy, existentialism, and the ménage à trois."
"Oh man... Those are three pretty good things."