Valve antitrust lawsuit reportedly reveals lengths Steam owner is willing to go to prevent cheaper prices elsewhere - and even the major publishers aren't safe
www.eurogamer.net
Newly uncovered evidence in an ongoing antitrust lawsuit has claimed Valve works aggressively behind the scenes to maintain its position.
    • ITGuyLevi@programming.devEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Have you ever bought a game via a Steam key? Those use Steam’s infrastructure for distribution while not providing them (Steam) any income.

      As someone that has entered so many Steam keys over the years (over 1,000) yet only bought maybe 20 games from Steam I almost feel bad, but the dev was following the rules and Steam is okay with it (as long as they aren’t selling those keys for less than they can be purchased on Steam for).

    • Luffy@lemmy.mlEnglish
      11·
      3 months ago

      Amazon provides ad and marketing services, hosting, support, and more importantly, logistics.

      Yes, but if its not sold on Amazon, they don’t do these logistics.

      Games sold outside of Steam have no access to Steam features

      And steam allows that too. Their only problem is with distributing the steam keys yourself for less.

      The act of reading is something only the fewest people can do, apparently

        • Luffy@lemmy.mlEnglish
          11·
          3 months ago

          OK, I know English is hard, but you should at least know what alleged means.

          This article describes allegedly that that is happening. The same way I can say that alledegly my guinea pig has just started to talk to me in perfect English. It means literally nothing until either lawsuit no. 4 suddenly finds this to be true (yes, there have been at least 2 before, all of them dismissed afaik) or out of nothing you find some clause saying this is true

          Either that or Mii Mii lends you their hard drive.