• BigTrout75@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    How can this be? All the games I buy on Steam are cheaper than on other platforms. Where are these cheaper games?

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      20 days ago

      I think that is the main point of the lawsuit, if developers sell their game on Steam they can’t sell it cheaper somewhere else. If Value gets 30% the developer has to raise the price a bit to compensate and they have to raise it everywhere. Outside of sales I don’t think most games that are not on Steam are much cheaper elsewhere, so not sure how this plays out.

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        20 days ago

        So don’t sell the game on Steam? Either the huge boost in visibility is worth a 30% cut or it’s not.

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          19 days ago

          If you have a point to make about why Valves is not abusing it’s monopoly position make it. Otherwise no one wants to hear your dumb ‘but the free market is always right’ statement.