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$843 million lawsuit against Valve already has its own website: "The Steam Claim" accuses the biggest store in PC gaming of "overcharging" players (www.gamesradar.com)

submitted 5 months ago by Dadifer@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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[-] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 29 points 5 months ago

the solution to that is taxes, not suing successful business one at a time.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago

Or breaking them or nationalization so profit goes to everyone instead of a single guy.

[-] TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee 26 points 5 months ago

And you want to start with Valve, which is one of the smaller game companies and is one of the few players not guilty of buying up their competition, instead of Sony, Microsoft, other Big Tech players, media conglomerates like Disney, ISPs like Comcast or AT&T, or meat distributors who are price fixing algorithmicly?

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

Who said I want to start with them?

[-] stardust@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 months ago

Why even buy games period? Why risk giving money to any of them since things that become popular risk making the people selling them to become wealthy? Not like indies are immune to it looking at Minecraft becoming too popular that too many people wanted to buy it making one person then a corporation wealthy, so why not just not buy period to prevent the issue from even becoming a possibility?

The best solution is prevention. Don't buy anything.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

Who said I do?

[-] stardust@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

You don't buy games?

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Not on Steam and not in ways that enrich billionaires. If devs don't make their game available another way then too bad, they chose to deal with the devil, I don't have to encourage them, won't keep me from playing their games through other means or by getting them through giveaways.

[-] stardust@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago

So which non billionaire associated company or publisher.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Ever heard of... Indie Games? Itch.io?

[-] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 5 months ago

Average sh.itjust.works IQ be like

[-] nore@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 months ago

bruh, don't lump me with this idiot.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

Oh will you look at that, an hypocrite

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/11183086

[-] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yeah bud Steam having decent game sales is literally like a corrupt government contract boss gets a pay rise at a corpo dumping sewage into rivers and polluting drinking water and making people sick.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Stop defending a billionaire and his company, you'll never be one of them, all billionaires need to go, none of them became one by being moral, if it was any other company you would be talking about guillotines.