KThis protects Valve from having their bandwidth robbed by selling actual steam keys for steam for less than steam would make, a transaction which grants valve $0
Aits clear
KIt wasn't to me, there's false discourse going around then
KPeople here are missing that developers aren't benevolently intent on driving down prices. especially not in a way that differentiates between where you buy their product. It would also cause massive issues with storefronts because it directly drives sales away. It'd create insane friction if they did this in a way that wasn't at least playing within a certain set of agreed upon clauses.
This stuff is why EA, UBI and all the others started their own launchers in the first place. To avoid legal issues from discriminating storefronts and eating more of the pie. They don't sell their games cheaper on their own platform, they just take more pie.
This stuff is why EA, UBI and all the others started their own launchers in the first place. To avoid legal issues from discriminating storefronts and eating more of the pie. They don't sell their games cheaper on their own platform, they just take more pie.
Kthere is, yes
Kthis lawsuit is a trainwreck
Aexactly
Athe boomers who made this shit didnt read ONE PAGE of the partnership with steam
VOh come on man this is a cop out. You can't permanently offer a title for less than it is offered on steam.
This is basically saying "We won't nuke you off of our platform if you forget to apply a sale on steam"
This is basically saying "We won't nuke you off of our platform if you forget to apply a sale on steam"
M3rd time installing bazzite on vm, hopefully my docker and mullvad work fine too so I can finally install it on my pc
KI mean, I didn't because I'm fine with Steam as it is, that's why lol
Anono, its "We won't nuke you off of our platform if you forget to apply a sale on steam if you request another bulk of keys"
KI've been actually building a rhythm game for a long time and already have the account and voucher for publishing it. I just need to finish it which will take a looong time... The scope was to big for me alone lol
VOk so what about non-steam licenses on other stores, can those be lower priced?
Ayes, and its how steam wants it to be, once the bulk is over, you have to match the same sales at the same price within digital steam purchase on the steam store
MI bought lower price steam game on gog and dlsite
Mseems fine to me
Aidk, depends on their partnership, if they make keys
ZIs there a ujust command to install atuin?
KSince the game is going to be pretty niche and I'm actually going to rely on Steam SDK for some stuff I don't really care about other platforms
SBut when you buy on gog you are not buying a "steam key", you are buying the game on gogś platform
SValve has an issue if you sell Steam key undercutting them while making use of their infrastructure and bandwidth
Ayou are pretty safe with steam honestly, that 30% tax is for so much stuff
Mthe more we talk about it, the lawsuit just feels more about steam key rather than the whole 30% stuff
Ayeah, and the keys argument can be cleared up by reading one partership page
Myeah
SHonestly, the whole "Steam is a monopoly" and "Steam takes too much" debacle is stupid and dumb
Aits not misleading at all, people just believe one liners and grant it as true
SSteam is a monopoly because it provides a better service. If you don´t like how much they take, you are free to sell your game to the 5 Epic Games Store users that there are out there
Aor at itch.io
Awhich is way better
SYeah, the 10 itch.io users
SDouble the ammount of users than EGS
Afr
Acrush is one afaik
SThing is, Steam provides a good service, not only for the devs, but specially for the customers, and that's why they are in the position they are
Vone what
Adont forget the undertale ripoffs
Aitch.io user
Aafaik
VUhhh not often, just if a game I want is on there
SI love GOG and the "no DRM" thing, but every time I try to use their app and store I seriously consider killing myself to end my suffering
SThankfuly I can run the games without using their launcher, but still
KAlso, they provide leaderboards too. And more that I don't remember probably.
Mtho even if all of us know steam is providing good service, not sure how out in the court the listener and judge could understand how good those services are rather than just focusing on the 30% stuff
Asome gog games that went to steam have official cracks in them made by the devs themselves lol
ZI think heroic launcher got also some kind of partnership with GOG(?)
KOh and Regional Pricing is a big thing too.
Hyeah
i can possibly pay a little less for games on egs, but the launcher is just DOGSHIT (how does the third party heroic launcher have better ui than that), and the service may as well not exist
i can possibly pay a little less for games on egs, but the launcher is just DOGSHIT (how does the third party heroic launcher have better ui than that), and the service may as well not exist
KIt was kinda cut off in Argentina and Turkey due to inflation issues and people from other countries exploiting it too
