woot shotbolts argument regarding commission rates is completely arbitrary, 20-30% is not excessive, considering the exposure the developers get, yeah epic games charges 12% commision but their platform is barebones and they have significantly less monthly active users than steam does. Reply
TerryLaze Full price games are not more expensive for the end user on steam than they are in a physical store or any other store front…case dismissed. Gamers are not the ones paying more on steam, quite the opposite we get huge discounts because of the huge competition from all the games being on steam. Reply
Pierce2623 I’m so tired of excessive baseless litigation. Is there even a PC platform in existence where the base game and DLC don’t have to be purchased on the same platform ? Reply
thestryker vanadiel007 said: Seems far fetched to me. I think arguing monopolistic behavior might have been a more effective strategy. While this article just mentions it in passing this is what the lawsuit is about: Valve abusing their market dominance to impose the restrictions. Pierce2623 said: Is there even a PC platform in existence where the base game and DLC don’t have to be purchased on the same platform ? The author of this article seems to have misunderstood the complaint. This part of the complaint is about in game purchases being forced to go through Valve's payment processing. I'm not super familiar with Valve's policies here, but I believe a developer can have an external website where purchases can be made, but in game has to go through Valve. This is my understanding of how it works, but I may be wrong on this one. Reply
S58_is_the_goat vanadiel007 said: Seems far fetched to me. I think arguing monopolistic behavior might have been a more effective strategy. I do not believe Valve is forcing UK consumers to pay too much. Ok Gabe… Reply
woot An article about this posted on pcgamer states that the lawsuit will proceed because valve lost the appeal to have the lawsuit dismissed, and even if valve will win, this will cost them a lot of money because hiring overseas lawyers is like 4x times more expensive than domestic lawyers. Reply
migidid Ccompanies just hate valve because they aren't public company they can't control them and UK hates free speech. Same with X and Grok content nobody else are able to generate cp with it exept allegedly British MPs Reply
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