Hate is always foolish and Love is always wise.
Always try to be nice, but never fail to be kind.
Never be cruel.
Never be cowardly.
Never give up.
Never give in.
I used to. But with the major redesign a few years ago it ran so badly and needed system resources enough to make it noticeable that it was open. So I got in the habit of just shutting to down and never using it for anything but to launch the game. I shifted all chat and game purchasing and game discovery to other platforms. Cest la vie.
You should always check with the IP owner first aside… this does seem like an uncharacteristic move from valve. Like… black mesa existed as a mod for a while… crickets. They remade it in a new engine… crickets. They put it on sale on steam… and valve endorsed it. afaik they never asked permission… but even if they did it’s weird to have a team doing a fully 3rd party remake of a core game and being fully endorsed by the company.
But here you have someone well known, doing a skin essentially… that only works on the valve product… and valve has issue with THAT? odd.
Can also set up push notifications if you just want momentary alerts for things. Or set up categories that don’t alert but do show in the passing waitlist filter so you can just have alerts for certain ones you’re really really waiting for.