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

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• magi@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If games on Steam were 30% more expensive than anywhere else, you might have had a point.

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    • magi@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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      • Nibodhika@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Steam also enforce a strict key price parity.

        No it doesn’t. The price parity thing is only if you are selling the game on Steam platform, i.e. selling a steam key, it’s essentially a way to allow publishers to sell the game on their own website, without paying the 30% to steam, but don’t allow them to undercut steam entirely while still taking advantage of their platform.

        Games on GoG, itch, Epic store, etc, can have any price they want, as long as they don’t give away a steam key valve doesn’t care what price you sell your game elsewhere.

        This is one of the most annoying fake news out there, Valve are going above and beyond what any other store is doing, and they get bad rep from people who have never read their policy, published a game there, or talked to anyone who has.

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      • stardust@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Steam also enforce a strict key price parity.

        Do they?

        isthereanydeal.com/game/helldivers-2/info/

        if you think a 30% cut doesn’t reflect on the cost a player is paying, you’re out of your mind. This is business 101.

        Isn’t business 101 charging as much as possible and not passing on savings to customers, and trying to capture as much high paying consumers as possible before being forced to start capturing price sensitive consumers?

        Price of games that didn’t release on Steam seem to reflect that. Even games released by platform owners like Sony first party exclusives and the beloved Blizzard. Isn’t that strategy of pricing business 101 as opposed to this belief that savings pass onto consumers?

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  • Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Certainly not the players, given current costs - where Steam is virtually always cheaper than elsewhere.

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