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@RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip on piefed.zip Open parent

Steam lawsuits in a nutshell

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@network_switch@lemmy.ml on lemmy.ml Open parent

People constantly dooming steam are punching themselves in the face instead of pushing for anything better. If they wanted a more competitive market do two things. Buy games on other storefronts. They exist. There have been digital storefronts since before Steam. Second is direct your complaining to competitors to improve their services. Like go complain on every EGS press release for Linux support and a gamepad friendly interface. Something equivalent to Steam input and remote play that isn’t using third party software like Sunshine/Moonlight. Something like steam curators and other social features. User reviews. The complainers of Steam are pretty much campaigning for Steam to be worse so others can compete without having to improve as much

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@Electricd@lemmybefree.net on lemmybefree.net Open parent

If Steam is accused of abusing their position, then it’s not the same, like them being accused of enforcing price parity, while they take a higher cut than EGS, so that those same games, sold on EGS, can’t be sold for cheaper

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@megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone on lemmy.blahaj.zone Open parent

They don’t mandate price parity on other platforms. They mandate that people selling steam keys on different storefronts match price with the steam store. Which is to say, they allow people to distribute through steam’s infrastructure, without paying steam’s vendor fee, but not for a lower price. Publishers can absolutely choose to sell for cheaper on EGS(or any other distribution platform for that matter), that they generally don’t is not due to some valve policy.

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Electricd in !lemmyshitpost

@Electricd@lemmybefree.net · 14d

It wasn’t what the accusion was about. The accusation was about price parity on other platforms. The steam keys thing is something else.

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