Comment on Steam keeps on winning
Rose@lemmy.world 11 months agoValve’s actions do not have to copy those of Google for it to engage in anti-competitive behavior. Focus on the Steam-specific issues deemed reasonable enough for the judge to allow the trial to go through, like the MFN, high profit margin, user reviews manipulation, and so forth.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I said pointing to the Google antitrust case and equating them is misleading, not that it’s impossible for Valve to engage in any anti-competitive behaviour.
And the reason why I said that is because they’re completely different and not even in the same stratosphere in terms of shady ongoings. Nor are they doing the same thing. The Google case has zero bearing on this one.
As for the 30% cut, that’s been deemed fine. See the Apple case and the Google case. Even in Google’s case, where Google lost, it wasn’t down to pricing.
And Valve would have an easier time justifying it too. They could point to their service being much more bandwidth intensive, and including things like friend systems, a messenger, voice chat, streaming, cloud saves, Linux compatibility layers, compatibility for controllers that the OS doesn’t natively support, etc.