Steam recently admitted that its forums suffered a security breach, but the problem runs much deeper unfortunately. Steam users' accounts have been compromised, as the entire database, including credit card data, was accessed. IndustryGamers just received the following letter from Valve's Gabe Newell:
Valve CEO Gabe Newell has been ordered to attend an in-person deposition regarding an antitrust lawsuit filed by Wolfire games.
Big deal. He has to give a deposition i. person wowie. He requested to it remotely because you CAN request this and this is common as F especially with heads from larger companies being involved. Next.
If he can announce Left 4 Dead 3 after going to court, that would make us all happy
"if we could get left 4 dead 3 sometime after Gabe leaves court that would make me SOOOO happy" - Craig, south park.
Valve recently released its 25th anniversary documentary on Half-Life where Gabe Newell emphasized why delaying the game was important.
I am shocked Gabe is still with us. Absolutely expected a widowmaker heart attack to take him out years ago. He never took care of himself. Hope for the rest of us?
Why bring this to anyone’s attention? It’s his life and he could outlive any of us for the matter.
Reminds me of a story where an old lady had two doctors tell here that if she didn’t quit drinking Dr. Pepper it was going to kill here. And she lived to tell the story of how she’s 104 years old and that both doctors had died.
He is very wealthy and has not used that wealth for charity (that I know of) and has used it for excess. Also, he seems obstinate and defiant to the pleading and wishes of his fanbase. So not someone to hold up in super high esteem.
@RhinoGamer88 - who the hell are you to say how he should use his wealth?? You don't know his personal life and what he's done. Not all good deeds are announced out loud to the world. Get off your high-horse. You don't have to be wealthy to give back, so what have you done to help the world?
Do you make a point of letting everybody know you give to charity? I certainly don’t, it would be pretty gross. You have no idea about what Gabe does with his money, like you said.
Your 1 of those people walking on the street with a surveillance camera showing you pass by while someone is getting robbed, just watching and moving along. You need help.
Well it's staying true to its name, bc it's taking half my life to see a proper sequel.
And yet even with multiple delays, nowadays there's no guarantee that a game will being functional.
New Hampshire Senator Maggie Hassan sent Valve a letter decrying the vast amount of white supremacist imagery in its user generated content and community spaces.
I would like a response from him, they should crack down on that to an extent. If they supporting that crap get rid of it of its killing Nazi I'm down with that.
Like the Azov Regiment that our taxes are supporting?
Nazism has always provided us with cannon fodder in games, but I don't expect COD will tackle that particular hot potato any time soon.
@black
How about pro communism then? or pro french? or pro British? heck why not pro steam 19th century American games?.
Every country in some form of extent had its genocide and or racism period's some still are its part of history and one of humanity's flaws.
We should be teaching everyone though media about universally adapting equality though education and reform heck skim off the trillion-airs/billionaires for starters they can support the education bill.
but na its one week pro this next week anti that all the dam time.
^ @PaulFiend, sadly it's an unwelcome fact. I understand your cognitive dissonance. You can be opposed to the Russian invasion, but also recognise that these neo nazis have/had power.
It's acknowledged in every facet of the media - left, right or centric, social media, Wikipedia, everywhere - and not a fact check in sight, because unfortunately it's the truth.
If you want a link, pick your poison: CNN, The FT, The Independent, Fox News... Even Zelensky has acknowledged this in mainstream news interviews, because the Azov Battalion flag and the soldiers being covered in swastika tattoos made it unavoidable.
Conversely, I'm happy for you to fact check me. I'm just saying things aren't quite as black and white as we'd prefer them to be. I am as anti-war as anyone else here - it's disgusting.
EDIT @Below: stop putting words in my mouth. I think the muck should have been cleared out first and THEN whatever necessary action should be taken to secure the region. This includes using tax payer money from the West.
And, while we're at it, we should help the Syrians too. Those people are suffering unimaginably right now.
If they're getting funded it's by proxy of funding Ukraine to fight off an invasion of their country by Russia. The fact you lead with the old tax line implies you think public money shouldn't be spent on defending a democratic nation in Europe who's existence or potential eradication would have serious ramifications for the rest of the Western world. Thinking it's a waste of money is a good way of showing you don't know jack shit about foreign policy and the consequences of getting it wrong. Honestly, you may as well be cosying up to Iran who let me tell you, do not care for you or your country.
Why have you always got to be an edgelord Sully? It's an article about Steam FFS. Why being this irrelevant whataboutery to the comments section?
Absolutely Ukraine has always had a nazi supremisism problem. And now we have to support them guess what I don't.... All azov aidar Stephen bandera followers are scum, its not Russian propaganda it's actually real if you start to look into it. So this alleged senetor first has to question supporting fascists of Ukraine before pointing his nose towards steam
Maybe you should lead with those views first then instead of solely your concerns about tax payers money going to neo nazi groups. I think you have to be more aware of what you imply when making those statements. Nobody else here knows the context you hold in your head, just you. We have to go by what you write exclusive of your intentions.
Let's not overlook the neo Nazi groups fighting for Russia if we're getting onto this topic...
Maybe you should go visit the torture chambers the Russians use on civilians. Including women and children.
You folks denying the Azov Regiment need to get off social and mainstream media and do some goddamn self research....
@Killer
When has our tax dollars gone and supported said neo nazi groups in Russia?
I don't like the Azov battalion and yes ukraine has a problem with racism...
But Putin Invading Ukraine for that reason is like if we invade Mexico for police brutality...
Alot of the east European continent is pretty racist, ukraine, Russia.Putin
Doesn't validate a invasion
That's like suggesting that if we get invaded, our allies should wait until they've cleared out our white supremacist problem before they offer us any help... You stop genocidal slaughter by the invaders first, then you focus on weeding out the crap. These aren't nazis we're giving weapons to, who are using those weapons to further their ideology. These people are fighting for their lives...
Not even Putin could stick to the Nazi distraction, he's had to give up using that as justification for his war... The only purpose it currently serves is to further this genocide by discouraging people from supporting the innocent civilians who couldn't care less about the Azov Regiment's questionable connections to neo-nazis... Our citizens would deserve such help even if Britain's media started singling out members of our special forces troops who were white supremacists... or bringing up the white supremacist ties some members of a certain political party have... we are in no place to point fingers there, we have them among our ranks as well... and while I do think that any further help with rebuilding after the war should be contingent upon them weeding out such corruption, as long as they are under attack, they need our help.
@Just_Lookin...there's a big difference between the the Nazis and the other things you listed. By saying pro British or Pro France I can't tell if youre referring to the country as a whole or specific times in their history like colonial England or revolutionary France. If it's the former, comparing a politic movement against an entire country really isn't apples to apples. Secondly, while you're absolutely right that a lot of course tries have had bad examples in their past, Nazi Germany is something that still carries a lot of weight with the alt right political people today. It's still a dangerous entity itself and needs to be contained, especially when we are seeing so much of the same kind of hatred and bigotry that allowed it to take root in the first place. As Im sure you know, Hitler was elected as Chancellor in Germany before he dissolved the Weimar...
Replies(1)What are you advocating then? That you don't fund Ukraine at all because there are neo Nazi militias also fighting against the Russians? I don't know about you but the best place for neo Nazis I can think of is on the front line where they'll likely serve a purpose and be decimated in the process.
It's interesting how quick you are to fill in the blanks and decide other peoples' opinions are morally dubious, right before advocating killing human beings.
The best place for a neo nazi is jail. The front line is not the best place for anyone, because war is pointless to all but the elite few profiteering from it.
You advocating for the murder of a person for their ideologies opens the door for the polar opposite of the Ideology you're wanting to kill. Here we go, the opposite of National Socialism is Communism. Since the Communist Bolsheviks of Russia killed upwards of over 60 million Christians from 1917 to 1954. That's not even bringing up Mao in China. From the Bolshevik Revolution to the Armenian Genocide to the Holodomor Holocaust. So who was behind the mass killing of Christians?
David R. Francis, United States ambassador in Russia, warned in a January 1918 dispatch to Washington: "The Bolshevik leaders here, most of whom are Jews and 90 percent of whom are returned exiles, care little for Russia or any other country but are internationalists and they are trying to start a worldwide social revolution." The Netherlands' ambassador in Russia, Oudendyke, made much the same point a few months later: "Unless Bolshevism is nipped in the bud immediately, it is bound to spread in one form or another over Europe and the whole world as it is organized and worked by Jews who have no nationality, and whose one object is to destroy for their own ends the existing order of things." "The Bolshevik Revolution," declared a leading American Jewish community paper in 1920, "was largely the product of Jewish thinking, Jewish discontent, Jewish effort to reconstruct."
History you have been removed from 109 countries over 300 times. The only European country not to Exile Jews was the Netherlands because when Jews moved there in the 1600's the Dutch used Jews slave knowledge in South Africa. Which almost all slave ships were Jewish owned. You're history's greatest slave traders, being able to move between both Christian and Muslim countries. The Jewish Golden age was during the African Moors occupation of Western Europe for a 400 years. Where they Dominated the slave trade.
If not for the Reconquista they would have taken more land and finally was expunged during the Spanish Inquisition. Which made Jews move to Brazil which has one of the largest Jewish populations. This is why 95% of all African Slaves during the slave trade years went to Brazil. But most died due to the extreme conditions their masters put them through.
Albert Pike Jewish Mason and Confederate General was the founding father of the KKK.
The Blood Libel the ancient past time where Jews drain the blood of Christian babies to create matzah bread. The old tell that started Dracula
Also in Bram Stokers 1931 film Dracula Bela Legosi wore the Star of David. Which is the star of David is Moloch symbol and Moloch was the Pagan God of child sacrifice.... Now the Masonic Secret Societies do this same thing but it's called adrenochrome.
"A Jew will always tell you what happened to him, but he'll never tell you why" - Old Arab Proverb
Look into how Nathan Rothchild took control of the England's Money after the battle of waterloo. Or how they took control of America with the federal reserve. Wars give Bankers power. Jews Control every Faucet of Life. Banks, Media, Entertainment so on.
Thanks for that interesting synopsis. It's nice to read something thought-provoking from someone who has bothered to do their research, rather than just get attacked for saying an unpopular truth.
I believe the people Oudendyke was referring to in the quote you shared was the Askenazis / Khazarians.
The symbolism you mentioned was interesting too, and that's another element that exposes the Azov Regiment (even after their 2014 'rebranding').
Wow nice text book, I forgot to add killing Nazis in a video game only. I dont wanna see any kind of these nazi, Nazi supporting group bundle in a place where they dont belong. They dont belong on steam or anywhere else. If its a game on steam that lets you kill nazis I'm down for. In here sounds like y'all support these racist fools.
The downvotes here show how much Nazis are desperate for safe spaces, and how much N4G is one of those safe spaces.
Neither did I, maybe it's there if you look for it but not if you do normal browsing...
There were a few groups and community pages that were neo-Nazi, however, Steam purged them a while ago.
Even mainstream media did a story on the Nazi problem in Ukraine before the war. I believe it was msnbc or cnn.
They all did every single one. But now all of a sudden Ukraine is a beacon of democracy and filled with angelic beings so we have to wave yellow blue flags. I've been following news on telegram and not tiktok, its clear who Ukraine are, I do feel sorry for the ordinary Ukraine folk though. The worst is what those scum did to a women in Mariopul and engraving nazi symbol on her stomach western media was coming out with shock horror but once it was known it was an abandoned kraken division area the media never mentioned it again.
Keep the Kaliber's rolling
Ask that senator what she thinks about the actual nazis in ukraine that the US is funding, arming and training.
That is a lie, you don't know what you talking about, you only repeat russian-nazi bullshit propaganda.
The US helps the people of Ukraine to get rid of russian agression, russia murdered tens of thousands of innocent civilians already and continue to do so as we speak. Ukrainian military are heroes and defenders of their homeland.
Ukraine is one if not the most corrupt countries in the world. That's a fact. All Western money being sent there is going to criminals, corrupt politicians, and nazis...all a fact!
Do some self research bro. Stop getting your news from Facebook...
The irony of Americans commenting on racism and corruption in other nations is just mind blowing to me
You don't know what you're talking about either. Ukrainians have oppressed and killed thousands of Russians living in Ukraine....there ...as you can see nobody has the full picture.
There's more nuance to history than you think. Certain areas of Ukraine used to belong to Russia. Those same areas are full of Russians that aren't treated particularly well.
Not claiming to know the kns and outs of it all. But clearly it's much more complex. War and loss of lives is never a good thing...lose lose situation.
This comment is so ridiculous I don't even know how to properly respond to it.
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I'll get right on that.
In the meantime maybe you should look into anger management sessions. Maybe find a good psychiatrist.
You could start by getting out of your little fantasy bubble and go look into the subject matter, and find out that we, in fact, do not live in a Hollywood movie.
Ask that senator what she thinks about the actual Nazis in the US. All countries have shitty elements to them, it's not exclusive to Ukraine. There are neo Nazis fighting for Russia, why are you forgetting about them?
nazis in Russia and the US are seen as misguided fools and are frowned upon by society. Nazis in ukraine (especially on the west side) are seen as heroes. You have parents proudly posting on social media how they indoctrinate their children into being stepan bandera worshippers. There is no comparison, and I'm not sure why you're trying to make one anyway. The topic is how these dirty politicians like using nazis as scapegoats, yet if you look a bit deeper, you find out that not only do nazis have nothing to do with the things they're attacking, these politicians are actually in league with real nazis.
It gets old watching politicians worrying about videogames 24/7 as they accomplish nothing positive in Washington year after year.
Posturing is how they fill their time. When they aren't posturing, they're making deals with lobbyists for campaign funding so they can keep their cushy jobs. Congress desperately needs term limits and Senate terms need to be cut from 6 to 4 years.
WOW. This is not good. Sony knows their pain. Stupid hackers.
Every companies are not safe. I feel for those Steam members
FFS my bank just sent me a new credit card number because of the Sony hack.
gabe's mail was NOT very clear. First he says both forums and steam itself were hacked. Then he says just the forums. What the hell?
Oh crap. I have my info on there! >:[