they are going in for the kill. they want Steam gone.
>>740013850>abusing its market power>by giving the people what they want???
>>740014164Never once assume that regulations exist to protect the customer.
Theyre still making hitpiece articles like this?
>>740013984omg heckin epic my brother in christ!
>>740013850When will they give up? Steam can't be defeated!
>>740013850>steam>anticorporate
>>740013850>steam>anticorporatehahaha, the insanity of this World will make someone head to explode
>>740015178>>740015527They are anticorporate though
>>740013850Killing Valve would just increase piracy tenfold. What they are really afraid is of Linux becomes viable for normal consumers so they don't have to use their Palantir devices.
>>740013850you can safely ignore anything that says "and UK", I am amazed starmer hasn't been dragged through the streets yet. he does NOT represent us.although for personal reasons of my own, fuck steam, pirate only.
>>740015738This, Microsoft has been able to tax the sale of every computing device in a way that essentially forces major corporate control.Valve's SteamOS disrupts that because unlike other mainstream targeted Linux distributions it is so much closer to upstream, and avoids all the tools Microsoft and others have used to maintain their monopolies.
>The lawsuit - filed at the Competition Appeal Tribunal in London - alleges Valve "forces" game publishers to sign up to conditions which prevents them from selling their titles earlier or for less on rival platforms.Epic Games have exclusive games and GOG has some games priced lower than Steam. This is retarded and only gets traction because the woman making the lawsuit is well connected to weird orgs.
>leave my multi billionaire alone
>>740016123This.
2 MORE WEEKS TIMMYSAARS AND STEAM IS KILL SAAAAAARS
>>740016365The lawsuit is made on behalf of Valve's rivals like Google and Meta.
>>740013850Yet another reason why pc is an unsustainable platform
>STOP LETTING THE CUSTOMERS REFUND A GAME WHEN THEY DISAGREE WITH THE TOS>THERE'S A FUCKING REASON WE DON'T SHOW THEM THE TOS UNTIL THEY'VE PAID AND INSTALLED THE GAME, GABE>THAT'S IT: LAWYERS, ASSEMBLEit's all so tiresome
>>740016224>weird orgsjewish*
>>740013850they don't want steam gonethey want to own steam
>>740016956they want to own yet another garbage, anti-consumer storefront masquerading as steam
>>740016737I checked she works for a bunch of orgs that get money from the likes of Google, Microsoft, Meta and the Briddish government. Effectively she is doing the bidding of Valve's competitors.
>>740013850>win a suit against the rothschild jewgoblin>everyone comes out of the woodwork to try and file class action suits no one asked forInteresting...
>>740013850In some bizarro world where they actually are able to kill steam, everyone on PC would move to GOG, and with all the attention on them a lot of people would learn just how easy it is to download stuff for free from gog and pirating would get much bigger. I think it only isn't because many steam gamers literally don't know about gog existing
>>740017091Stop ruining the hatred with facts
>>740013850>Valve disagreesSo its okay then
what does the uk even produce? such an irrelevant parasite would be better off dead
>>740015573In what way?
>Emails indicate Valve employees once threatened to delist all editions of Ubisoft’s Rainbow Six Siege “by end of day tomorrow” after they learned the publisher was marketing a separate $15 “starter pack” exclusively on its in-house Uplay store. >In 2017, Kassidy Gerber, who works in business development at Valve, wrote to Warner Bros. executives that preorders for its new Middle-earth: Shadow of War game had been deleted from Steam because the price was “significantly higher than what was available at other retailers for the same version of the game.” Within hours, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment President David Haddad was trying to get on the phone with Gerber to make amends. TOTALLY not a monopoly.
>>740018098They're not publicly held.If they were public, they would be open to having a hostile company (Microsoft) buy a small number of shares, and then sue Valve for 'wasting money' on things that are 'unprofitable' (supporting GNU/Linux based OSes).
>Nooo, you are too successful and have too large of a userbase! This is unfair towards the rest of us who have not been as successful!What drives these people?
Do valve have a PC monopoly? YesWhy are they mad about it, Microsoft, them, other companies? Because they don't own a PC monopoly and it was easy to do, Valve didn't have to do anything. They don't even make games.Do consumers benefit from this? No. Valve doesn't do anything.All in all, Valve won, piracy is still best option and they'll sue Valve over and over because the monopoly will never disappear.
>>740013850>goneNo they want it under the Illuminati's control. Gone? Ridiculous, they do want the consolidation Steam has.
>>740018196>Aldora, the research firm, estimates that lowered Steam fees could send billions of dollars back into the pockets of game makers at a time of ballooning costs for development, growing competition and slimming industry margins.Won't someone think of the corporations?
>>740018348>What drives these people?Insane greed, and the knowledge that they both can't earn money directly from Valve's success nor force them to be complicit in business practices everyone else does in the aim of profit, and Valve's refusal to do so shows the world that you can be a successful business without being anti-consumer, which hurts their bottom line.
>>740018348Greed. The will to power. An animalistic need for status.
>>740018196Being a monopoly is completely legal, as long as you're not doing anti-competitive practices. Selling for cheaper and having better customer support isn't a reason for anti-trust laws to come break Steam up.
valvoids routinely censors lolige so they can eat shit and get fucked, i hope they get raped to death in court
>>740018963Threatening to delist games because there are cheaper prices elsewhere is pretty anti-competitive big dawg.
>>740018196>Steam dictates what prices are allowed on Steam so Steam is a monopolyTimmy is really not sending his brightest.
>>740013850gabe really rattled the rothschilds didn't he
>>740013850God fucking damn the amount of anti-Steam sentiment lately is absolutely deafening. They're absolutely quaking in their boots that Steam might survive the AI crisis that was supposed to kill the portion of every tech-related industry (((they))) didn't already own, huh?
>>740019089they signed a contract agreeing not to sell for lower than what they are selling on steam, little doge
>>740019089>list on steam>sell steam keys for less than the price in steam. And valve gets zero of the money from it>valve tells you to not do that and delists you if you break the terms of the steam publishing agreement further
>>740019089no it's fucking not lolwhy should you be allowed to advertise on their store to then tell people to buy it somewhere else to get it cheaper
>>740018364>Do valve have a PC monopoly? No, only about 2% of Valve's user base use their self-hosted platform, and that platform is open sharing almost all of its components with other GNU/Linux distributions used by a further 3% of users. Other storefronts could choose to support that 5% of users, and because SteamOS and other GNU/Linux distributions are open platforms they could do that while giving $0 to Valve.They want those users because they are the group who spend the most money on Steam.They choose not to support them because the convicted monopolist company who controls 90% of the PC Gaming market still has them by the balls and insists that they only support their platform so that users must downgrade their systems with their advertising malware if they want to play games.
>>740019089>Game can be bought for cheaper somewhere else>Developer/publisher is probably going to market at that price point>At that point, the game being on steam (for a more expensive price) is literally just an ad for the game that redirects consumers to the platforms where it is available for cheaper>In essence, Steam has then been used for its reach but does not see a single cent of revenue because the game is not sold through Steam, but through the other platforms due to the price difference>Valve should just allow this kind of practice because ????
>>740013850insane how blatant shit like this can happen but everyone still calls you crazy if you point out the root cause
>>740019642Antisemitism isn't in vogue right now.
the second gaben dies all your library is gonehope you guys have gog backups
>>740020482He's already training a heir
>>740019554because it's allowed on mobile.so purchases are just 30% more expensive when you use the app/play store.but mobile stores are a monopoly, so there is no alternative store to go to for a discount, other than web payment.I still don't think it would make a dent on steam to remove this restriction, it would only hurt the gamers who buy games that already require a 3rd party login like origin or whatever, because the company that has it's own storefront will do anything to get users off of steam, including upping the cost by 30% or more (90% discount if you use our storefront!).
Why are they saying it has "exclusives" is there any games where the developers were deliberately asked to be exclusive on the platforms? if anything it's the other platforms who do that>>740020482>>740020551He barely run the company anymore, he already has multiple successor including an entire group.
I can see why he lives on a moving fleetGaben is on the secret most wanted list
>>740020239It's more in vogue than ever.
>>740020682tbf, without going on a conspiracy, he's one of the few billionaires with no real big controversies about him and who just seem to be a chill dude, this probably annoys a few peopleHe also said he doesn't even care about the US and would move the company elsewhere if neededHe has no "side" beside his own company
>>740013850>valve>anticorperateWhy are steamies so mentally ill?
>>740013850>antitrustSo they’re trying to claim that Valve despite being a singular entity with Steam as its own digital distribution platform and launcher which allows games from companies with their own launchers and does not directly stifle other DDPs is somehow being gone after for breaking antitrust laws despite the fact that nothing is stopping these games or studios from being sold on other digital stores?
>>740018196>>Emails indicate Valve employees once threatened to delist all editions of Ubisoft’s Rainbow Six Siege “by end of day tomorrow” after they learned the publisher was marketing a separate $15 “starter pack” exclusively on its in-house Uplay store. >>In 2017, Kassidy Gerber, who works in business development at Valve, wrote to Warner Bros. executives that preorders for its new Middle-earth: Shadow of War game had been deleted from Steam because the price was “significantly higher than what was available at other retailers for the same version of the game.” Within hours, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment President David Haddad was trying to get on the phone with Gerber to make amends.Yeaaaah? Thats - that's how steams TOS works. You can't offer a lower price than them somewhere else. Amazon does this too - and mind you, fucking fuck amazon - but Amazon also literally buys up it's competitors and shuts them down and makes it infuriating for people to opt out of their shit.>>740020556>because it's allowed on mobile....which was reaffirmed when Epic sued Apple and got it's shit pushed in.
>>740013850Last 3 games I bought were on GoG because the prices were lower and thankfully some of them allowed for save transfers. I'd hate to have bought Game 1 and have to buy Game 2 from the same store just so that the save transfer between the games work.
>One person recalls Newell ripping into Karl Quackenbush, Valve's general counsel, because he advocated for more content moderation during a debate about whether to allow pornographic media on Steam: "What the f--- do I pay you for if that's your opinion?"I can't believe the fat man is the only thing standing against """their""" attempt to ban porn on Steam against
