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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I don't want to simp for a corporation, but what is Valve doing that's anticompetitive?

Like, don't they need to be doing something to limit competitors' access to the market to be anticompetitive?

Steam requires base price/same price parity for selling Steam keys, but they're literally giving their services away to developers for free in those cases, so that's pretty clearly not anticompetitive, right? And there's no requirements that I've seen written anywhere that they require price parity for non-Steam-key sales.

And, based on the massive numbers of bundles of games I've bought with Steam keys with total historical-low game prices below best-ever Steam sale prices, they pretty clearly don't even enforce this rule strictly (it seems like so long as the total bundle price is in line with individual title sale prices, they're fine, even if consumers get other games as well.)

So I'm not sure what the basis for this suit is. Not saying it's healthy for the market to have an effective monopoly in this space, but the reason Valve is maintaining its marketshare is because they're consistently offering the best value to consumers compared to other storefronts, which isn't illegal.

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