• fyrilsol@kbin.melroy.org
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    1 day ago

    The publishers/developers are the ones who set the prices though.

    You can delete your steam account, so that’s not locking players into using Steam.

    Valve hosts numerous sales, that said developers/publishers have the option of participating in.

    This lawsuit is fucking stupid. It’s so stupid, I actually went out of my way to dig up ways to contact this bitch and educate her some of how dumb this lawsuit is. I advise everyone to do the same.

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      7 hours ago

      What the fuck are you even talking about?

      The lawsuit - filed at the Competition Appeal Tribunal in London - alleges Valve “forces” game publishers to sign up to conditions which prevents them from selling their titles earlier or for less on rival platforms.

      This has been known about steam for quite some time now. This is textbook anti-trust lawsuit.

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        Yeah it is. But Epic is sounding like they never take a pay cut. Only, they still do. The way it works is, is that for the first 6 months, Epic allows a developer 100% of their revenue. Afterwards, they take 12%. But they also offer 0% revenue share on the first million earned on a game by a developer.

        The issue really is that Epic makes it sound like they never take a pay cut, when they do, it just works differently.

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          7 hours ago

          This is about steam. Post another thing for epic if you want. Whataboutism is not a good look. Two things can be bad at the same time. One thing can be “better” than something else while still being bad.

          • fyrilsol@kbin.melroy.org
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            7 hours ago

            What isn’t a good look is you dictating how a conversation should go. Maybe go back to your basement, nobody asked you to talk.