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Comment on $843 million lawsuit against Valve already has its own website: "The Steam Claim" accuses the biggest store in PC gaming of "overcharging" players

Franconian_Nomad@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Smells like a smear campaign. Some idiots try to get some fake-ass grass roots movement going.

Bold move, let‘s see how it plays out for them.

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Dadifer@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I actually was sort of on board after I read the article. Why should a publisher be penalized if they offer a lower price on a different platform?

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- SuperIce@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  They don’t really though. They’re talking about selling steam keys in a different platform, not selling the game on a different platform (like Epic Games for instance). You can sell the game for cheaper on Epic or GOG if you want to.
  
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  - Aielman15@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    When new video game stores were opening that charged much lower commissions than Valve, I decided that I would provide my game “Overgrowth” at a lower price to take advantage of the lower commission rates. I intended to write a blog post about the results. But when I asked Valve about this plan, they replied that they would remove Overgrowth from Steam if I allowed it to be sold at a lower price anywhere, even from my own website without Steam keys and without Steam’s DRM.
    
    From the source cited by the article.
    
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- stardust@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Do they? Haven’t felt like that s the case as a long time user of /r/gamedeals and isthereanydeals which is all focused on game sales.
  
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- Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  They don’t. The thing most people who have never published a game on steam don’t know is that valve gives you infinite steam keys (for free) that you can give or sell as you wish. This is to allow studios/publishers to give keys to whoever they want, and also allows them to sell those keys on their own or third-party websites. This is a HUGE deal, Valve is letting studios/publishers sell games on a separate site without charging anything while hosting the game themselves. The only condition to those keys is that they can’t be sold cheaper than on Steam.
  
  That’s a completely different thing from what you’re claiming. This means that games can be cheaper on GoG, Epic, etc as long as they don’t give you a steam key together (which they could, for free).
  
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