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Valve abusing the market power of Steam on game pricing according to a lawsuit
8 Feb 2021 at 7:41 am UTC
Quoting: TheSHEEEPLet's be honest, yes: You have no idea what you are talking about in this matter.
I haven't read a single argument of yours that actually holds up upon inspection.
You haven't shown any sign that you have an idea what you are talking about. Nothing but allegations that you can't back up.
Valve abusing the market power of Steam on game pricing according to a lawsuit
8 Feb 2021 at 7:38 am UTC
Quoting: TheSHEEEP
Quoting: x_wingValve isn't a public company so there is no way to know the profit. You're speculating here.
Hardly.
I can't know the exact numbers, obviously, but you can do a rather well educated guess based on the public numbers Valve does release, the prices, what you know about hosting / infrastructure costs, the relatively low number of employees, etc.
Hint: You won't end up at 30% as the required number for a tidy profit.
gog broke down their costs running the store any say said that running their store costs about 20% and 10% is actual profit for them.
Valve abusing the market power of Steam on game pricing according to a lawsuit
8 Feb 2021 at 7:35 am UTC
Quoting: TheSHEEEPEh, their profit margins are so large, they can - and do - already offer lower cuts to large publishers / developers.
How do you know that they already offer lower cuts to large publishers/developers? CD Projekt Red is pretty big and Cyberpunk 2077 was one of the biggest launches in history. They didn't get an extra deal.
Valve abusing the market power of Steam on game pricing according to a lawsuit
8 Feb 2021 at 7:33 am UTC
Quoting: TheSHEEEPOf course, to the mind of a rabid fanboy, calling things out like a way too big cut or a refusal to have regional pricing within the same currency zone immediately makes you a hater.
How do you know it's a way too big cut? What cut would be appropriate?
Valve abusing the market power of Steam on game pricing according to a lawsuit
2 Feb 2021 at 6:03 pm UTC
Quoting: BielFPsPersonally I think Valve does this to prevent companies to sabotage steam by selling their games at higher price on purpose.
You don't even know if Valve is actually doing this.

Quoting: BielFPsIf I'm not mistake, Valve also have a clause forbidding dlc to not be selling through steam if they're available in other stores , which was one of the reasons that made EA left Steam back then
EA sold Mass Effect through Steam, but they wanted to sell their DLC for those games with their own stuff, thus bypassing Steam. That's what Valve is not allowing.
Valve abusing the market power of Steam on game pricing according to a lawsuit
2 Feb 2021 at 4:28 pm UTC Likes: 3
Quoting: TheSHEEEP
Quoting: F.UltraTook me until I read the actual filing to realise that the 5 plaintiffs where all gamers, I for some reason thought that they where game developers.
Are you sure about this? That does make the whole thing indeed sound incredibly weird.
Yes, it's always on the very first page. Those are just five random people. The whole lawsuit is "Epic is better, Steam is bad."

Here's the lawyer that wrote this suit...

https://www.vorys.com/mccormick [External Link]
Google shutting their internal game dev studios, focusing directly on Stadia tech
2 Feb 2021 at 7:17 am UTC
Quoting: pbProbably they realised that exclusives will never pull as many people as hit games from other studios. Like Cyberpunk 2077.
Nintendo?
Valve abusing the market power of Steam on game pricing according to a lawsuit
1 Feb 2021 at 6:22 pm UTC Likes: 3
Quoting: Liam DaweSorry but you're clearly not objective about any of this.
Pointing out simple objective mistakes/false claims in the lawsuit = fanboyism?
Valve abusing the market power of Steam on game pricing according to a lawsuit
1 Feb 2021 at 6:13 pm UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: Liam Dawe
Quoting: kuhpunktYou can't break an NDA you didn't sign.
No but it gives Valve an easy reason to ignore me. I'm not about to burn bridges, don't try to get me to.
Anyway, since there's some rampant fanboyism going on, I shall not be replying further personally on this one.
I'm not trying to get to you. It's just about being objective here. That's not fanboyism.
Valve abusing the market power of Steam on game pricing according to a lawsuit
1 Feb 2021 at 5:55 pm UTC
Quoting: Liam Dawe
Quoting: randylThe agreement does not state as such. Did you do some digging to find out what the agreement is or did you assume it's all private? You source the Hollywood Reporter which doesn't actually do good diligent investigative journalism and find out what the contract says. The lawsuit makes claims it hasn't substantiated and won't until it goes to court. The wording, at the very least, can be misleading, if not outright false.
Even if I knew, I couldn't say in public for certain, because the agreements are confidential. It's under an NDA last I checked.
You can't break an NDA you didn't sign.

And Sweeney already talked about it publicly.