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

Steam lawsuits in a nutshell

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@gmtom@lemmy.world on lemmy.world Open parent

Being a simp for a multi billion dollar company is never a good thing. It’s not good for you as a consumer and, frankly, is just incredibly cringe. No, it’s not, the main point of the lawsuit is that Steam does not let game Devs sell their game for cheaper on any other platform. So if you don’t like that Steam takes a massive 30% cut of your sales so that Gabe can buy his 27th mega-yatch, and you decide to also put your game on another platform that takes a fairer, smaller cut, then chose to pass on those savings to the consumer, then valve will kick you off the platform and you’ll lose access to by far the biggest market in PC gaming. Fuck valve and fuck you brain dead fanboys simping for a billionaire and making everything worse for the rest of us because your entire worldview comes from memes.

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@verdigris@lemmy.ml on lemmy.ml Open parent

2 is false. It only applies to steam keys.

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@Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world on lemmy.world Open parent

It only applies to steam keys. A steam key is the receipt that you paid for the game. It is ridiculous that companies get to skirt laws by saying, “It’s on a computer.” Imagine you buy a car. Years later you go to resell it for less and the manufacture claims you can’t because the sales receipt that proves you are the legitimate owner is a “Steam Cars Inc key” and therefore all existing laws do not apply.

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verdigris in !lemmyshitpost

@verdigris@lemmy.ml · 16d

Yeah that’s not what they’re preventing. It’s to stop someone with rights to generate keys, i.e. the developer, from generating a lot of Steam keys and then selling them on their own site at a discount, which is basically leeching off of the Steam infrastructure & ecosystem while sidestepping the storefront. Which is fine as long as they don’t undercut. The EULA for any software you’ve ever paid for is what forbids resale.

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