Why the fuck are they so miserable that they can't let people have good services? Holy fuck, it's like they hate seeing people be happy.
>>218813472God strike Britain
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>>218813472Unironically top 5 most evil regime of the 21st century
>>218813472Is this really the Uk's doing this time or just Timmy trying to sue Steam in another country
>steam>unfair pricesHoly shit someone nuke that soggy island
>>218813472How is the UK's government managing getting worse than ours in a speed of light?
>>218813472>Our corrupt judges who literally have been caught taking bribes from Sony to chase microsoft are once again preaching fairnessAt least Brazillian judges don't pretend they're not lying sacks of shit
>>218813472what happens to birthplace of civilization?
>>218813472good, steam are greedy cunts
>>218813472Good for them. Norf pensioners deserve that money more than gaben who hasn't done anything in 10 years and buys yachts off profit from storefront rentals
Gamers don't mind contributing to the gaben yacht fund because steam is fantastic>Shitbolt and her legal representatives claim Valve's position and policies block game publishers from selling games, add-ons, and DLC at an earlier date or cheaper price on other digital stores, and say that additional content is tied to games purchased on Steam in that it cannot be purchased via another seller and then accessed via a base game bought on Steam. Shitbolt's case partly hinges on PPO (platform parity obligation) terms purportedly limiting options via alternative sellers, and also takes issue with the default 30% commission Valve takes from Steam transactions.Nobody cares dumb bitch. If I have an issue with the steam price I pirate.
>It claims that as Valve requires users to buy all additional content through Steam, if they've bought the initial game through the platform it is essentially "locking in" users to continue making purchases there.I really don't care about this
>>218813472GabeN BTFObased bongs, fat fuck gets what he deserves for betraying the Artifact fanbase
I wonder how much of EU & UK gdp is made by racketeering american corpos with regulations
>>218814877one fine every 10 years here or there is not a lot
>>218813472Why dont you complain about Austrailia forcing Steam into allowing refunds?
>>218814472>claim Valve's position and policies block game publishers from selling games, add-ons, and DLC at an earlier date or cheaper price on other digital storesThis seems to be true from what I've heard. It's annoying when I want to buy a game on GoG and I assume the dev seems to have his hands tied and not allowed to offer a discount unless its on discount on Steam or even a lower price. For example no steam workshop on GoG could the dev sell the game for $1 or $2 less there or would they get kicked from Steam which is a bigger ecosystem? Considering Steams recent and explicit ToS update about you not owning your games, it makes me kek how people said otherwise in the past. Imagine Steam gets sold out and you lose access to all those games.
Streamcucks will never stop of surprise me. Why are the defending a company that forces game devs to not offer lower prices outside of Steam or they'll kick off that company from Steam? This means that prices for games and DLCs are higher than they otherwise would be while Steam collects 30% on every sale while doing very little actual work.Valve is a very abusive company just like Amazon (which does the exact same thing) and it adds little to no value to the world (you could argue that it adds negative value). The EU is way too soft on these abusive companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Value, Facebook... These companies add little to no value and break the law all the time. They know that they'll have to pay the fines when they break the law but they don't care because they make more money breaking the law. The EU should just ban all of these companies.
>>218814983>I assume the dev seems to have his hands tied and not allowed to offer a discount unless its on discount on SteamI don't think that's true. I've seen games selling for cheaper than they're listed on steam. Ubisoft games in particular.For example, assassin's creed shadows is currently on sale on ubisoft for 50% offhttps://store.ubisoft.com/assassins-creed-shadows/660e5a03fbff4e2940488bcd.htmland here it is on steam at full pricehttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3159330/Assassins_Creed_Shadows/
>>218813472You as a consumer think Steam is the nice man who gives you the cheap games, but steam is nothing but a middle man. Steam only gives you the rotting, decade old UI, and one of the worst recommender systems out there. The sales come directly out of the developers pocket. The increasingly indie developer base is who pays the bills, and for them, Steam is a price gouging monopoly. AAA developers can pay smaller fees and get better service because of their size. The position of Steam gets better and better as AAA developers die, as smaller developers are easier to keep in the leash. Steam takes by far the biggest piece of the cake for indies, they give nearly nothing in return, and they are enforcing anti-capitalist, anti-competition rules that limit developers for using competing stores.
Gaming needs to die and be reinvented
>>218814877negative billions when you compare it with the amount of taxes those companies don't pay thanks to ireland and the netherlands
>>218815377VPN off, Sweeney
>>218815502I agree with that post and disagree with the fine
>>218815377It'd be cool if Concerned Ape released Haunted Chocolatier exclusively on his own website, there are a few indies who do that. They have way better forums in my experience.
>>218814983Steam's ToS (or rather the whatever guidelines for devs) forbid giving better deals elsewhere when distributing steam keys. This is because you're still using steam's infrastructure to distribute the game, but attempting to get around steam's fees (because you can generate as many keys as you want and steam doesn't see a penny from them). If you wish to release your game on other storefronts without using steam's infrastructure, you're free to price your game however you want. There are games that cost money on steam but are free on itch. Valve is quite lax on that front. How many digital storefronts let devs freely generate keys, sell them elsewhere so that the storefront sees no money while still providing access to the services of the storefront? Even something like epic requires explicit approval for key generation>Retail key generation must be approved by the Epic Games Store team.
valve deserves it for ruining tf2
>>218814659How would it even work if you bought the game on steam and then additional content for the game from somewhere else? How do you play it with the content being on different platforms?
>>218816053agreed. plus ruining the award system
>>218813472it's not the country doing it, it's some random woman who is "CEO of Parent Zone" on Linkedin.Another case of 4chan falling for twitter slop articles
>>218816462so it's some rich retard that has some delusional take that will be laughed out of court then.people like that should be thrown in a pit full of large crabs
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>>218817253not necessarily rich. filing a tribunal costs like £500 here and it's her own law firm doing the legal work
>>218815802Clearly that's nonsense or devs couldn't bulk sell to keysites who sell each key for cheaper. More than likely it's just like Steam's content "policy", ie. there might be an email somewhere or it's just based on the vibes of the day. The rules may or may not be selectively enforced on those who recently made a disagreeable post on twitter.
>>218813472i'm all for steam but if this fixes the gay 60 dollars = 60 quids bullshit then i'm for itwe are indeed being robbed
>>218817527I mean in theory if she has a law firm then she must be well off, poor people don't tend to have those, unless of course it's all bullshit and she's just calling herself a law firm.
>>218815377a working UI system doesnt need replacementi dont give a shit about the restits convinient
>>218813472we should be the one suing valvepoopland has the highest prices on steam after Switzerland, and the difference is marginal
I hope Valve punishes Britain by locking out service.
>>218817773Why would I care about that when I pirate everything
>>218817616middle class. not all small time lawyers are rich. in fact, most are not. point is, she does not need much resources to sue Valve (or any company for that matter)
>>218813472literally the ONE good American company and Brits want to ruin it
>>218815152i don’t give a fuck about tranny devs >>218815377you understand that if Steam fell, the alternative is the fucking Epic store?
>>218813472Epic lobbyist pushed that. :D
>>218818059>lawyer>not richfuck is the point then
>>218813472Like, just don't pay lmaoBongoloids were supposed to ban 4chan and nothing happened
Lot of steam shills here who think steam is infallible
>>218813472Are you people bots? Steam shouldn’t have a monopoly.
>>218818216She's probably a dogshit lawyer, that's why she's doing this Don Quixote dumb bullshit.>>218818691none of us are saying they should have a monopoly, just that the grounds that they are pricing store items unfairly is retardation in the highest.
>>218818691Steam doesn't have a monopoly, people just choose to use it, GOG and Epic Games exists. I get cheaper games from steam because of sales and local pricing.
>>218818691>Steam shouldn’t have a monopolyThey don't have a monopoly. There's plenty of options, it's just that they all fucking suck. That's not Steams fault, it has it's own problems but it's the best option out there.
>>218818691yeah, well look at their competition and tell me if you want their competitors to have more stake in the games distribution market (GOG is being held together by a string and Epic would literally enshittify every aspect of it if given even a sizeable minority of the market)it’s not a monopoly if all your competitors are fucking shit
>>218818691you know natural monopolies occur, right
>>218818691What monopoly anon? Being better than the competition isn't a monopoly.
>>218818691There's GOG and Epic Games store at least, which provide kinda the same thing. And they suck ass.
>>218818691>waaaaa it’s not fair that your product is better than mine and you prioritize consumer satisfaction and are privately traded blehhh!!!>mista gubbamint please rape this one decent company so it can be replaced by my shitty fucking poop ass companies pweeeez!!!why are angl*s like this? didn’t you guys literally perfect capitalism?
Steam is literally not a monopolynobody's stopping you from making a Steam-like service
>>218817693that's punishment for creating GoG
>>218818691>monopolyHow is it a monopoly? By that logic, if you kill Steam and Epic takes over then we have to kill Epic next. And maybe GOG takes over after that.. Killing time. Then the next company. Or do you want all companies to have perfectly equal shares, identical profits, identical amount of users? Retard.
>>218818691Brit in charge of understanding 1 word in his native language challenge (impossible)
>>218813472hundreds of raped girls/women every day: sleepvideogame store charging money for games: REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>218819297sensing a LOT of anti-BAME sentiment in this post
>>218818691if only the competition had a mod support on par with steam...
>>218813472This is how Europe works. They can't invent anything so they just leech off what we make
>>218819372>linkedin it really is the most overvalued company in the world. wtf
>>218814472The yatch is for research, not even for petty, meaningless stuff. Gabe is the GOAT.
>>218819297but enough about india
>>218819372looks like we have to tax those corpos more
>>218819372We can thank Ireland for that
>>218819372how about you just obey the law?
>>218818691I agree but then I remember EA could've filled that void instead.
i haven't been to /v/ in so long i forgot how aggressively valve shills on 4chan
>>218821047Meds
>>218821047Which platform do you think is better than Steam?It's fine to criticize Steam. It has its problems, but it doesn't have some forced monopoly. Users and devs prefer it because it's so far ahead its competitors that it's not even funny. Should Steam be punished because its competitors suck ass?
>google? microsoft? disney? >nah, let’s destroy an objectively good platform for no reason
>>218813472Yes
>>218813530Trade laws affect everyone you dumb fucking animalNo one cares about your autistic seething about muh corporations
>>218813472The eternal anglo strikes again
>>218815152They are free to put lower price on steam AND outside of steam. Like, nigga just lower it. What are you? Greedy?
>>218821047You still haven't answered how Steam is a monopoly and what the better option is. Any answers? No? Then fuck off retard.
>>218813472Remember when bongs were an intelligent people just 20 years ago?
>>2188210474chan is full of autistic freaks who can only playing their 20 year unc shite through steam too, that and anime pedo slop
>>218818691It's not Steam's fault they are better than the competition
>>218824312>pedoFOY
I don't like evil monopolistic mega corporations like in a cyberpunk dystopia unless it's HECKIN BASED VALVE WHOLESOME CHUNGUS GABEN WHO CANT COUNT TO 3 LMAOOO
>>218818691Slit your throat in gta v nigger
>>218819474America has extreme capitalism and CEOs just can't do the right thing because of fiduciary duties and shieet.If there is a loophole they are legally obligated to use it.
>>218815152I don't think that's an option at this point. I mean, I don't see your country allowing Amazon to go bankrupt.
>>218813472Just pirate the game if you find the price unfair, thats what i do, im not gonna pay full price (+dlcs) for a 20 yo call of duty game for example.
>>218824650You've got it wrong.
>>218813472valve has done irreparable damage to gaming and faggots defend them because they havent moved on from gaben memes from 2010 so i hope they burn, also this >>218816053
>>218819413apparently he tests out prototype steam-VR devices on the crew
>>218814472>If I have an issue with the steam price I pirate.Tsmt
>>218818691Okay, offer a better alternativeYou can't? Too bad/thread
Unfair prices for who? The developers? Fuck off with your greed.
>>218825137>he doesnt know devs set the price>he doesnt know devs are the reason factorio went up to $35 a copy>he doesnt know devs are the reason factorio kever gets a saleLol
>>218825373Why are they crying then? Nintendo and Sony sell glow ups of old games for $80. Why doesn't anyone complain about that?
Finnish shizo retard is paki faggot, he doesn't denounce islam. He is just a pisslamic streetshitting jeet.
>>218824693He has it wrong so often I don't think he even is the original fenoswede schizo. We are being lied to.
>>218825446>>218825539he's an attention whore like all lee imitators ignore himlook at him samefagging to praise himself here >>218824791
>>218825603Wrong again I am the Modipilled Hinducel, UAB Molesta CEO.
>>218813472>pc gamingJust buy physical pc games if you're on that.
schizos compalining about pakis are worse than actual indians
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>>218813530bodied
>>218813530/thread>>218813472Kill yourself, retarded zoomer.
>>218813723>reading comprehension: zeroThe unfair prices are what Valve charges developers. How would you feel if you made a product and the store it was sold at automatically took 30%+ of YOUR money as a fee?
>>218826617Then just distribute the game yourself? Starsector does that for example
>>218826617The average markup for retail stores is between 30-50% with 50% being the most common so 30% is actually on the low side.
>>218826617Why not just increase the games price by whatever it takes to reduce the 30% cut? Like if you want to make $14.99 off a copy increase the price to $21.42. once you remove the 30% cut from $21.42 you make $14.99 excluding the regionap pricing. If your game is good enough it'll probably still sell well.
>>218826716>50%Thats a load of crap>Steam 30%>GoG 30%>Epic 8%-1x%>Itch 10%
>>218813472Can they sue cuckstar next and ensure shark cards are removed?
>>218819372sounds based to me. free money from mutts.
>>218824791THANK YOU
>>218826813more like this ackushually
>>218813472>Why the fuck are they so miserable that they can't let people have good services?This right here is why, its always the council of karens. We MUST put them in the box and throw away the key. Inb4 the thread suddenly dies, Ill post this retarded bitch on every single related thread I can and you cant stop me.
>>218826186At least the Romanian schizo makes up imaginary rusniggers by changing flags, this is pathetic in comparison.
>>218826617>developersfuck developers, theyre all faggots and deserve no money
>>218825446>>218825654I just wish he would at least not spam all caps up and down to take up whole blocks of the thread. It kills threads when I see half the viewable thread is taken up by his spam. Please report when he spams. He has a right to schizopost and to turn sperg like the founding father's intended, but not to take up space in threads using a heckler's veto.
>>218827752SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARAAAAA.AAAAA.AAAA.AAAAA.AAAAA.AAAA.AAAARSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARAAAAA.AAAAA.AAAA.AAAAA.AAAAA.AAAA.AAAAR
>>218828128If you leave and fire your jeetfarm ill have no cause to spam
>>218813472>servicesFuck that shit, the last thing we need in the world.Valve is a horrible company and you see midwit making this thread, no wonder I am dealing rangebans.Also this:>>218813530
