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The filing centred around the 30% cut that the platform holder takes, with the developer arguing that Valve used “dominance to take an extraordinarily high cut from nearly every sale that passes through its store” and that it has used its position to “exploit publishers and consumers.”
Isn’t 30% standard in every store? Also, Valve certainly has dominance, but it’s hardly a monopoly. There are more options than any other OS.
Yeah, surely they can point to the Epic v Apple lawsuit and also point to the ability to install Heroic or any other launcher/software on their platform, and the judge will laugh the plaintiffs out of the courtroom.
I’m not a fan of the 30% cut, but that really is par for the course and any other company could compete with them on their own platform, unlike with Apple’s iOS. So I see no basis here for a lawsuit.
I’m guessing the plaintiffs just wanted to meet Gabe and felt this was the easiest way to get a 1:1…
A developer can even sell steam legs directly from their own site and not have to pay Valve the 30% cut. (If I remember correctly.)
Did you mean steam keys or steam legs?
Yeah as long as the game is available for the same price to consumers on Steam. Most people will just buy directly from Steam, so you would have to convince your audience to buy from your site directly.
It may be now; it wasn’t when Steam first started up. But it was only 5-10% iirc more than the norm at the time.
Yeah they don’t even force you to use steam on a steam deck
Yup, I don’t see how this suit ever goes anywhere. It would be a better use of time to argue that your $500 Xbox has a locked down marketplace and can’t play Steam/PlayStation games.
Apparently this isn’t standard anymore, and I can see how developers don’t like it, but an antitrust lawsuit over this just seems poorly justified. For whoever doesn’t want to sell on Steam under their conditions, there is Epic, GOG, Humble and ItchIO. Maybe those don’t sell as well, but that’s the choice the company is making.
I don’t think being the largest store by itself is grounds for this sort of legal action. Especially not when they became the biggest store simply by providing good services for a good price, rather than any sort of restrictions at companies publishing in it.
Holy crap wolfire still exists? Feels like they were just making overgrowth for 20 years and I can’t remember the last time I’ve heard anybody mention that game
Timmy’s going to hire a hitman to take out Gabe because he’s eternally seething at EGS failing to take market share from Steam.
