Comment on Dutch gamers file €220 million claim against Valve, operator of game platform Steam
Einhornyordle@feddit.org 1 day agoCause yes valve does prevent you from selling your game on other platforms at a cheaper rate, so long as you are doing so via steam key or when valve servers will be the source of distribution.
This is false. Even if I put the game up on my own server, letting you download a zip directly from there, cutting valve fully out of the picture service-wise too, I am still not allowed to sell it cheaper on my site then on steam.
nore@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
barryamelton@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s quite demonstrably false. There’s so many games that do this, and are and have been part of steam for decades. i can think of is IL-2 sturmovik Battle of X series. They have sales almost every month on il2sturmovik.com and the account there is linked to the steam one. Same for other sims like Microsoft etc, selling through the Microsoft store…
Maestro@fedia.io 1 day ago
It's not about sales, it's about base price. And yes, Steam does consider "perpetual sales" a base price. They nearly kicked Ubisoft off Steam for that trick.
barryamelton@lemmy.world 1 day ago
and yet, these games have a monthly sale. If that’s not perpetual sales, I don’t know what it is.