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Court rules Gabe Newell must appear in person to testify in Steam anti-trust lawsuit (www.pcgamer.com)

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[-] blazera@kbin.social 162 points 1 year ago

So is the allegation just that Steam is too successful?

[-] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 220 points 1 year ago

Legit, I've never heard of anti-competetive practices from Valve. Anti-consumer? Sometimes, yeah, though they do a lot more right than most

The argument seems to be that "30% cut is too high" but it's not like there aren't other options if you think that's too high. Epic loves to pay for games to be exclusive there, humble and gog exist, one could even go the retro route and set up their own website (though that's prolly the dumb idea), itch.io comes to mind...

If Valve HAS done some shady shit to ensure their major market share I'd be down to hear it, but to me as a PC gamer since '10ish (and had PC gamer friends since 06) it seems they got there through being a not complete garbage heap of a company that actually improved over the years on user feedback, which is supposed to be the good example of capitalism innit?

[-] blazera@kbin.social 80 points 1 year ago

Taking a high cut is the opposite of anti-competitive, that makes it easier for competitors to offer a better deal

[-] Spedwell@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

...unless you have a policy that requires other marketplaces to sell at the same price as on Steam, undercutting the ability for "better deals" to exist at all.

Which is what the lawsuit is actually arguing is going on.