Valve faces a £656 million lawsuit in the UK for 'overcharging 14 million PC gamers' gamingonlinux.com/2024/06/valv…
Valve faces a £656 million lawsuit in the UK for 'overcharging 14 million PC gamers'
A new lawsuit was filed earlier this month in the UK that alleges Valve, owner of Steam, has been "overcharging 14 million PC gamers and abusing its dominant position in the UK".Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Ray Of Sunlight
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •Wow what?
Edit: Appearently Steam has always been charging 30% from the very start of Steam, i'm starting to question the intelligence of these people...
Sarah C.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •Manuel Tejera
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •"How dare you charge us money for stuff".
These are usually a waste of time and money for everybody involved, because you can't tell a company what price they should charge for things in a free market where there's plenty of competition.
But there's always a possibility this is not thrown out of court, so somebody tries from time to time.
WeeWoo
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •phi1997
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •feistel :cert:
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •Vencabot
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 • • •I'm really surprised to see all of this white-knight'ing for a big electronics / software corporation. Every time one of these corporations gets taken to task, it's good for consumers.
1.) Valve certainly shouldn't be able to dictate how publishers set their prices on other platforms.
2.) DLC should 100% be agnostic across platforms and there's no reason it should be difficult to implement.
3.) If Steam has a monopoly on PC game sales, then its commission is necessarily excessive
blackgatonegro
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