Well that’s standard for any court really. Nobody is above the court, well except politicians, to be fair, Wolfire does have a point with suppressing competition, its pretty much text book what any company does when they control a certain market. Steam does it on pc, their fans loves to do that when a competitor comes up. i mean look at their fans how they react towards epic. while ea and ubi? nah their stores and launchers just isn’t even worth a challenge to a installer. i believe nintendo and sony did the same but i may be incorrect, haven’t used a console in many years
Oh stop. Let’s quit the drama and get back to making video games.
When? Soon™
Ok? 🤷♂️
What a fucking joke. Steam is not installed by default in any computer. Windows is. Android Store is. Apple store is.
They earn billions for having done fucking nothing in 20 years.
If they delist games for having lower prices at other platforms they should be reprimanded because thats a scummy practice
That’s not the point of the lawsuit tho, it’s that Steam allegedly wants to de-list games that are offered for cheaper anywhere outside of Steam. Forcing publishers to raise their prices everywhere even in platforms where they get a bigger cut of revenue or miss out on Steam sales.
Allegedly, indeed.
What a fucking joke. Steam is not installed by default in any computer.
I mean, this would be true if not for the existence of the… Steam Deck.
w/ the steam deck it’s intended as a console that just works ootb, and they’ve given you the ability to just wipe it and install anything else, far better than nintendo/ps/xbox
I mean, windows will have their store, cause they own it. Chromebooks will have Android stores on chrome os, cause they own it. Steam deck doesn’t come with steam pre installed?
If you’re saying windows comes with android and Apple store, I never had those install at all.
Note - I’m not saying this lawsuit isn’t a joke, it kind of is.
Microsoft and Apple have faced numerous anti-trust suits over the years, though?
oh god, arch techwizard gaben has been disconnected and forced to appear in real space .
If you think Valve is anti-trust now, wait until you see prices slashed by 30% across the board. Nobody will buy a console ever again, among other things.
lol you have zero clue buddy
I may be out of the loop, are they planning some kind of price cut? Just wondering what the 30% thing was alluding to. Sorry if this sounds contrarian, I don’t mean it that way, I just genuinely don’t know :)
Cutting out Valve’s 30% will lead - not immediately, but eventually - to a 30% price drop, one would imagine. At first, publishers will be happy to make that instead of Valve or paying a similar price for physical sales, but eventually capitalism.
Cutting out Valve’s 30% will lead - not immediately, but eventually - to a 30% price drop, one would imagine.
Why would you ever think this? If people are willing to spend 60 in a game then it doesn’t matter were the money goes, nobody is going to lower their prices because of that. We already have great games below that and it didn’t affect at all the price of other games.
Lol wut
Your naive if you think consoles will just die, a $500 console is much more accessible than a $3000 dollar pc when you then have to sink another $500+ in year or two time
The 90s called, they want their PC prices back.
To be fair, a gaming PC is going to cost more than a console, but not $3k unless you’re going top of the line. My last desktop made it five years before I started considering an upgrade and it was under 1k.
My laptop was a budget model (around $700) and matches any console.
Idk why anyone thinks consoles will ever die. People just don’t want to think about buying or building or maintaining or upgrading a PC.
I love my plug-and-play experience with my Xbox and Game Pass and xCloud. I have zero desire to deal with drivers and shaders and minimum requirements and recommend requirements and all that nonsense.
Pretty much. As an adult with less free time than when I was younger I don’t always want to put in the effort of troubleshooting, picking out parts, and all that other stuff when I can just hook something up to the TV and be mostly done with it.
even if you’re so lazy, you’re aware that you can buy a pre-built PC that you can “plug and play”, right?
Which most of the time is double the price of a console
Timed field boss Steam-Lord Gaben has appeared
Court is salty Half Life 3 isn’t out yet
theres a number of other stores, and no one forces you to be on any store anyway. you can put the game on your own website.
this should not be an anti-trust issue. you dont like steam taking 30% cut? dont go to steam then…
The issue isn’t even The Steam platform, that i Gather
Valve has a policy that Steam Keys Cannot be sold cheaper on other platforms
However
Developers can still generate and sell their own Keys, on other platforms, At a lower price (Like on GoG, Humble store)
Theres nothint stopping a Dev from using multiple platforms, they just can’t distribute Steam specific keys on another storefront cheaper
Go get em, G-fat!
is there a problem with Gabe appearing in person? Havent caught up with the news
He’s apparently super paranoid about COVID.
wasn’t he personally delivering steam decks not too long ago? That sounds like a shitty excuse to me.
Doesnt he live in new Zealand?
Yeah its called Covid-19 and getting it from courthouse. He would prefer not to be present due to it but remote instead. Hell i wouldnt go in there if i could be remote.
He’s got covid phobia? We already have a cure for it
Just got covid and it kicked my ass. Gabe looks like he’s in way worse shape than I am.
From what I know he lives on the other side of the world
The fact this suit has gone this far is honestly absurd.
Steam has a policy that you can’t sell steam keys elsewhere lower than what you’re selling them for on steam. This makes complete sense. This suit shouldn’t have any legs…yet here we are.
I suppose it’ll be interesting to see this play out, at least.
It’s weird this keeps getting posted but without what has been alleged they did… that’s 3 almost identical deliberately obtuse comments
That is extremely anti competitive. Steam should not allowed to control prices on anything other then their own games
It won’t be interesting, it’s just going to bend consumers in some way or another as always.
Can’t wait for the Judge presiding to close proceedings by asking “I remind you that you are under oath - where is Half-Life 3?”
“We never made it. Dota dota counterstrike.”
I do not understand. So onwards I’ll press.
Sorry your honor, we were too busy making the Steam Deck and freeing ourselves from Microsoft…
“It is hidden inside the steam page of another game”
Cue a mass panic
My Half-Life 3? If you want it, you can have it! Search for it! I left it all at that place!
One Piece if it was interesting.
You want my half-life3? You can have it! I left everything I gathered together in one place! Now you just have to find it!
It’s the secret ending of gollum
The real motive behind dragging him into court.
I want him to be questioned under oath about what happened to Half-Life 3. Sure it has nothing to do with the case, but the people need answers!