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[-] Zozano@aussie.zone 17 points 11 months ago

Wow. I used to follow the development of Overgrowth, and now they're suing Steam? What dickheads...

[-] Spedwell@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

Wolfire originally operated Humble Bundle, and they have a very legitimate case. Steam uses anticompetitive pricing policies that makes it difficult for other marketplaces to compete.

[-] Zozano@aussie.zone 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

If anticompetitive means "it's your choice to enter into an agreement in which we host your game for 30%, and distribute it on our platform, with unlimited patch updates, and unlimited user downloads, and a fuckton of features like community forums, guides, groups etc., also if your game is good we will promote it free of charge"

Then I suppose companies like Epic who choose to run at a loss, as opposed to providing a good service, have no chance, and Steam is anticompetitive.

The counter narrative exists though, Steam is just a good service, and if you want to compete with them, you need to provide a good service, like GOG.

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[-] Crack0n7uesday@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

Is this why they were giving away all free steam keys on 4chan yesterday? I thought it was just Black Friday deals, shoulda known those anons don't do anything for the sake of being nice.

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