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I like how you think I was "blindly" defending them and that this wasnt related.
Say valve lose this, things could hopefully trundle on. Or, Valve throw their weight around and lock the steam consumers to steam. You want to sell and distribute a game as someone not being a big publisher? Now you have to deal with all the servers and distribution, and payment processing. Yea, someone like Ubi or EA have their own store, but lets be real, no one really uses or likes using them. There is a reason Ubi and EA both came back to steam.
In the end this hurts consumers, and really badly.
Obviously this is a worse case hypothetical. But it is a potential problem caused by this law suit. And this all started because valve was actually trying to get equal treatment for their customers, instead of them being ripped off by Ubisoft
Them being in a position to hurt the industry EVEN WORSE is not a point in favor of letting them continue this behavior without interference.