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Valve faces a £656 million lawsuit in the UK for 'overcharging 14 million PC gamers' (www.gamingonlinux.com)

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[–] entropicshart@sh.itjust.works 129 points 2 weeks ago (15 children)

Valve has a had a stranglehold on the PC games market for a long time and with this claim we’re challenging the status quo

Nothing has stopped competition from making their own platforms; god knows every god damn company out there has tried (Origin, Uplay, etc.) and failed to delivery a basic and functional option!

The reason Steam is (and will continue to be )successful is because they developed and listened to their user base without being greedy scumbags!

[–] TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip 37 points 2 weeks ago (14 children)

I think this is the key claim:

Vicki accuses Valve Corporation of shutting out competition in the PC gaming market by forcing game publishers to sign up to pricing restrictions that dictate the lowest price games can be sold for on rival platforms.

I had heard about it in the past and if true, I feel that is quite an uncompetitive practice, probably made possible by the dominant position Valve has.

[–] Ganbat@lemmyonline.com 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I've read about this one. I don't know if it applies to games totally managed by other stores, but I know it originated with key distribution. The gist is, they distribute keys to the publisher free of charge, so this was so they can't undermine their pricing while still utilizing their content distribution systems.

IIRC, it basically just says that base prices have to be the same.

[–] elgordino@fedia.io 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah. If this restriction exists it’s pretty clear it only applies to selling steam keys on another platform, not for selling generally. Pretty often games are cheaper on Epic or GOG and don’t use steam for delivery.

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