Comment on Court rules Gabe Newell must appear in person to testify in Steam anti-trust lawsuit

• CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Remember folks, Valve isnt the peoples company.

  No Corporation is “the peoples corporation”, but some corporations treat their customers with a lot more respect and fairness in pricing/policies than others.

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  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes, but people have to be reminded of that with “sweetheart” companies like AMD and Valve, because they get too deep in the koolaid and forget it.

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• TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It isn’t the peoples’ company, but nor is it a publicly traded company that is obligated to pursue profits above all else. It’s Gabe’s company, and he gets to run it as he sees fit.

  Ultimately Wolfire’s argument falls apart not because Valve is setting the terms, but because their claims about Valve’s position in the industry and supposed abuse of power don’t hold much water.

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• notamechanic321@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fyi I like valve but im in no way sworn to them.

  I think the justification would probably be that if they continued listing the item:

  1. It maybe mislead consumers into paying more for the same thing
  2. The reason why people pay more in that scenario is for convenience (IE all games in the same place) but that would be exersizing valves monopoly, so it may be safer to just remove to reduce complaints to steam about the higher pricing because there will be operational cost to processing those support requests and complaints

  I don’t feel like valve does everything because of lawsuits. Open sourcing proton wasn’t due to a lawsuit. Releasing Cs2 as a free upgrade to csgo wasn’t due to a lawsuit.

  On the other hand and in response to your comment, I think the regulatory fix is that platforms must display their platform fee clearly and separately to the publishers price.

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  • deafboy@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Open sourcing proton wasn’t due to a lawsuit.

    Wine and dxvk was already opensource. They couldn’t have closed it even if they wanted to.

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  • BURN@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Minor note about only a single point here

    CS2 as an “upgrade” to CSGO has been less than well received from what I can tell. If they wanted it to be free it should have been a new game and left CS:GO in place. Removing a game many of us paid for in favor of a newer, different game isn’t something that should be praised, and should be called out as the anti-consumer move it was.

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• theonyltruemupf@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They also make nice hardware, but they don’t do that out of the goodness of their hearts of course

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• deafboy@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  TIL: valve is run by robots.

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