>higher software prices and lining jew pockets GOOD>software developers being paid for their work BAD
I don't get it
Amazon does the same thing where is the lawsuit against them? Oh yeah Amazon is owned by the US government and works for israel so it doesn't matter what they do.
>>108203328>I don't get itOP is having a melty because Steam doesn't allow game devs to sell Steam keys to their games on other websites at a lower price than what you can buy the game on Steam. Do note that they can still discount and sell their game without a Steam key attached on other websites, but if they are selling you the Steam key it needs to be the same price as it is on Steam or Valve will take action.
>>108203129...I really don't get it. It's not like Gabe is going to the devs' houses to break their kneecaps and forbid them from ever selling their game.Just don't sell it on Steam then.
>>108203555>Just don't sell it on Steam then.valvenigger cumguzzlers would rather good developers go out of business and not buy their games than support a non-kike game storeit's literally impossible to make a 5million budget game and get any of it back without the valvenigger goodgoys
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>>108203667You can sell your game for less on other stores, you just can't sell steam keys for less.Once example is EA, IIRC if you buy games on their launcher, they cost $5-10 less.
>>108203384then how do all the websites linked from isthereanydeal have steam keys cheaper than the official?
>>108203129>epic pays devs for exclusivityNO THAT IS EVIL>steam threatens to ban your game if its cheaper anywhere elseteehee gaben is wholesome chungus
>>108204488people buy steam keys during sales and resell them at higher prices when the sale is over>>108204712>steam threatens to ban your game if its cheaper anywhere elsenot what happens
>>108204763that's literally what happens
>>108205064You can sell your game on other platforms for whatever price you want, valve doesn't care. If you sell steam keys for other prices, then that's when valve understandly has an issue. If you want to use valve's services, then you have to pay valve for use of those services.
>>108203129>so if the game is more expensive on our store than other stores we'd want to either offer it at that price, a lower price, or stop doing business altogetheridk OP looks like they'd prefer to actually have LOWER prices
>>108204488There's "publishers" who prey on clueless devs. You can ask Valve for free keys for your game for giveaways and such but you have to have a good justification for it and there's a limit on how many keys they can give away at a time. What these websites do is they pretend to be interested in publishing/marketing your game, ask you to get keys from Valve so they can use it for promotions/giveaways, and then instead they sell these keys to third party resellers.
>>108204488Valve doesn't seem to hard enforce that rule. Devs are able to generate Steam keys for free as far as I know. Presumably this functionality is normally intended for giving away to friends, family, reviews, promotional giveaways and so on, but some of these keys probably end up being sold on the side. Valve doesn't really bother with this as long as the game still gets a good amount of sales on Steam directly, I think it's mostly there as a sort of failsafe so they don't get fucked over by a dev using Valve's infrastructure for free but setting an insane price on Steam in order to sell the game somewhere else, thus bypassing Valve's cut.
>>108203129Fuck off yuropoor, nobody gives a shit about your lawsuit with valve. You're irrelevant.
