ParlimentOfDoom

A Gundam game that looks… Not like shit? Interesting

Was this what caused the sell off (showing weakness needing a bailout) or in response to it?

That seems like a poor choice on their part

It’s fun that all these comments defending valve are waffling between “it’s not happening”, and " they’re allowed to do it because everyone knows they wrote it in their terms" (they didn’t, but it’s illegal anyway, so wouldn’t matter)

Who taught you to read?

Again, the suit is happening because valve is threatening them to prevent exactly this.

The thing happening is not covered by the terms (which even if they were, is not legal, and is very much price fixing cartel behavior)

Holy shit. How many times does it have to be repeated for you to understand?

My steam account is old enough to vote. I’m just not a dumbass like the taint lickers in here cheering on a multi billion dollar company making their hobby artificially more expensive.

They can by all means list their games elsewhere and price it however they want.

Again, the suit is happening because valve is threatening them to prevent exactly this.

Terms that force prices on other services (that didn’t involve steam keys) are illegal price fixing behavior and cannot be enforced.

The thing they’re doing is not written in their terms of service. No one agreed to be under this racketeering effort.

Civil suit. Not criminal. Learn the difference.

Where there’s smoke there fire. If there was nothing these cases wouldn’t still be ongoing after years (at least one of them is 2+ years old). It would have been thrown out long ago.

These are civil suits, not criminal. You’re confusing the two.

Valve prints money doing next to nothing. Hundreds of people spend years of their lives building a fun game, and almost a third of the revenue just goes to the company who owns the server in the corner that said Dev team loaded it onto, themselves. Dev team sets the prices, Dev team makes all promotional material. What does valve do? Makes a couple graphics for their bimonthly big sales events theme.

What race to the bottom?

This was a game developer that made their own drm that was so successful they basically just stopped making games. They’re charge retail margin prices despite being able to sell thousands of times more copies from the same building footprint.

Epic games is losing money because they’re giving away hundreds of games instead of selling them. They’re trying to buy market share from the monopoly. Not from running the store itself.

Their sole job is gatekeeping access to filing your taxes.

… And the various Departments of Taxation can handle that. Half of them already have the software to handle direct filing, but simply can’t turn it on for contractual reasons (because of Intuit).

They had one half built, but then a pedophile took over the government

Depends on the state. Several offer their own online filing through their website.

Over half of the states already the software capability to do the same, but many are prevented by Intuit’s “free file alliance” contract bullshit preventing them from turning it on

Them being in a position to hurt the industry EVEN WORSE is not a point in favor of letting them continue this behavior without interference.

Controller Haptics used to be a spinning motor with a weight. Those DO make smoke when they break.

So, maybe sit down and think over how pathetic holding this pretty little grudge for weeks is…

I don’t think you know how lawsuits work. The plaintiff has to show the court there’s even a case to begin with.

There’s currently THREE separate lawsuits about this same issue.

It seems pretty likely they ARE doing it.

Raising the price of video games artificially by abusing their market position to force other storefronts to also raise their prices… Like the suit you didn’t read says.

Those is literally about valve being anticompetitive. How are you mentally twisting this into being Ubisoft being the bad guy here for selling their own product.

Steam is artificially keeping prices higher with this practice. Their larger cut % keeps the price floor high, because valve is threatening these developers to not lower prices on lower cut % stores (that don’t use valve infrastructure or keys). There’s zero leg to stand on claiming steam is lowering prices with this well known policy.

You should read the article. That’s not what these suits are addressing.

You should try thinking a little before blindly defending this price fixing behavior which directly harms your wallet.