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Valve faces a £656 million lawsuit in the UK for 'overcharging 14 million PC gamers' (www.gamingonlinux.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

Essentially, this hinges on whether demanding price parity with other platforms is anticompetitive...

No it's not. This hinges on whether you can sell the generated free Steam keys on other sites for less than the price you have set on Steam.

You can absolutely sell your game on another site for less. You can't sell your game on another site for less and make Steam pick up the infrastructure costs.

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

This is the first I've heard it that way. I haven't read the contract though, so I can't say I'm correct with confidence.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

The only claim anyone has ever documented is detailed in the article.

An accusation doesn't necessarily mean they're right though. Something people get confused on often is Steam Keys, which are completely separate to Steam Store purchases. Valve do ask developers not to "give Steam customers a worse deal than Steam Key purchasers"

You can read through all the claimants key documents if you like 😉

https://steamyouoweus.co.uk/updates/

So far no one has ever shown Valve asking for price parity with other outlets, and this doesn't appear to be any different. Just a lawyer looking for a payday.