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Steam doesn’t want to pay arbitration fees, tells gamers to sue instead (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Anyone can ELI5 this thing? I'm pretty lost

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Twofold: One, they lost a case in arbitration that basically said arbitration isn't usable.

Two: Lot of companies do arbitration to avoid court, which works fine and is cheaper if you're not getting taken to court much. If 75,000 people that could do a class action suit all go to arbitration though, the benefit is lost. Lawyers threatened that. 3 grand a arbitration case x 75,000 people == 225 million dollars on fees alone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thank you, when does steam need to do arbitration?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Previously, any time they'd normally go to court, which was fairly rare, per the article.