Comment on New Steam Agreement gets rid of forced arbitration and waivers for class action lawsuits
Daxter101@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week agoAfter a short read, the case is specifically “Steam is prohibiting developers from selling their games to other platforms, at a price lower than that of steam, and then pockets the 30% platform cost, due to effective monopoly power”.
Which, if true, is super bullshit.
Orygin@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
It’s false if I remember correctly. Steam prohibits you from selling steam keys outside the store for less than the price on steam. They don’t forbid you from selling cheaper elsewhere
cybersandwich@lemmy.world 1 week ago
And that seems entirely reasonable to me. Unless I am missing something
FlowVoid@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Why is that reasonable? Storefronts don’t get free keys from Steam, they have to buy them. After they pay Steam, they should be allowed to sell them at any price they want.
Imagine if Ford said you couldn’t sell your car for less than what Ford dealers charge for used cars.
zod000@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
I am almost certain that steam keys are actually free to developers, which is the whole reason for the policy.
ninja@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The steam keys are free to developers.
partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/keys
Grenfur@lemmy.one 1 week ago
Its this one. And the reason is that if steam sells a game at $10 and humble sells you a steam key at $5, steam gets no profit and is 100% responsible for the bandwidth when you donlload it, for hosting the page, for the market, etc etc. Basically steam doesn’t want to assume all the work with none of the reward. Which I don’t really see an iissue with.