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$843 million lawsuit against Valve already has its own website: "The Steam Claim" accuses the biggest store in PC gaming of "overcharging" players (www.gamesradar.com)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What a pointless claim. Developers get charged, not the end user. You pay the same price as elsewhere, in fact Steam requires developers to price the same if am not mistaken. Besides what's the charge? People are willing to pay more for product they enjoy? If that's the precedent then Apple will go bankrupt day after this lawsuit is won.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

in fact Steam requires developers to price the same if am not mistaken.

That practice is the whole point of the lawsuit. The lawsuit claims they're Anti-Competitive because of that.

And it doesn't sound too far fetched imo. They're stiffling other platforms by this.

But then, Sony and Epic and Microsoft have to pay as well because of exclusive deals.

This case might be good for customers .

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How is it anti-competitive. No one is forcing developers to publish on Steam. It would be one thing to have a monopoly like Apple does and no other way to install. But they don't. Developers definitely have a choice whether to publish on Steam or not. Cost of publishing might be high, but that's no different than self-publishing and spending money on advertising. It's just operational cost.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Valve has good lawyers, they will win if they're in the right.

It doesn't really matter to even argue about it, we don't know the laws around it well enough, especially UK laws.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

An objective answer. Right you are. Although in law those who are right don't win by default but those that argue better.