Didn’t see it being refuted.
There have been reports of Valve telling developers they can’t sell their game cheaper elsewhere (such as on a platform with a smaller cut than Steam’s 30%). But I think that was refuted.
Electricd@lemmybefree.net 2 weeks ago
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Supposedly it was actually about someone wanting to sell Steam keys off Steam for cheaper, but I cba to find the proof right now so it could also be fake news.
Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
It’s steam keys you aren’t allowed to sell cheaper elsewhere. Which makes some amount of sense: sell your game 30% cheaper elsewhere? None of their business. Sell a steam key 30% cheaper elsewhere? You’re using their download servers, infrastructure, social features, etc without giving them their cut.
DragonOracleIX@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
From what I’ve heard, steam does not charge for the generation of steam keys. So every steam key sold off platform is a loss of sales for them. Restricting the price of keys sounds perfectly reasonable in this case.
Electricd@lemmybefree.net 2 weeks ago
It’s a nice thing for us that they don’t really enforce it at all