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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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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wow. I used to follow the development of Overgrowth, and now they're suing Steam? What dickheads...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Wolfire originally operated Humble Bundle, and they have a very legitimate case. Steam uses anticompetitive pricing policies that makes it difficult for other marketplaces to compete.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

If anticompetitive means "it's your choice to enter into an agreement in which we host your game for 30%, and distribute it on our platform, with unlimited patch updates, and unlimited user downloads, and a fuckton of features like community forums, guides, groups etc., also if your game is good we will promote it free of charge"

Then I suppose companies like Epic who choose to run at a loss, as opposed to providing a good service, have no chance, and Steam is anticompetitive.

The counter narrative exists though, Steam is just a good service, and if you want to compete with them, you need to provide a good service, like GOG.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That us all fine. David is alleging that Valve is trying to restrict other platforms wolfire can sell their cases on. Valve needs to compete, not threaten to stop distributing a game if they don't like how it is selling elsewhere.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've never heard of Valve trying to prevent a developer from distributing their game on other PC store platforms, it's quite an assertion.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, it will be interesting to see how the case goes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The Platform Most Favored Nation policy employed by Steam is the one at issue in this case. And yes, it is anticompetitive. It abuses userbase size to prevent alternative marketplaces from providing fewer services for smaller cuts

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Again, it just sounds like Valve is offering a good service and other companies don't want to compete. If it's Valves fault for providing a good service and lots of users choose to use their platform instead of others, I fail to see what they could do to rectify that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I can't believe that a company that puts out a device running Linux that gives you access to the OS in a few clicks and provides guides for how to install competing distribution platforms is more anticompetitive than Sony, Apple, Nintendo, Microsoft, Google. Valve and Steam aren't perfect. It's difficult to accept that having a store and charging for it is worse than, for example, Sony buying studios and paying millions of dollars for some games to be exclusive on their platform.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You know that court cases are not competitions about who's the most illegal, right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

They should be.