Comment on Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead
criticalinvite@lemmy.world 4 hours agoValve forces price parity with all platforms. So if they have lower charges, that saving cannot be passed on to the customer and so stops price competition.
cynar@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I thought that only applied to steam keys?
You can sell your game for whatever you want elsewhere, but if you want them to be able to install via steam, you can’t undercut steam itself.
criticalinvite@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I did too but when I had a quick search around that’s what I found. I think it’d be reasonable to apply steam keys, valve is providing the full service there.