Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoI understand Aspyr will develop a remake of Knights of the Old Republic

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If this become true, I hope now they include the option to change the combat system, because I think the original is awful.

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They could at least finish to port the last borderlands 2 dlc before they kill their port department.

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Quoting: MalYeah, but the standard, typical, universally agreed fair price is that an AAA game costs 60. What they costs now, costed yesterday and will cost tomorrow (unless horrible avg income crisis happen). So when you say 65 on Steam and 40 on else, without specifing the context, it looks like you're impling that prices are going to diminish outside Steam, with benefits for consumers.

I guess your example was on an indie title, where yeah 40 or 30 are typically accepted as fair prices. In that case yeah, the example makes sense. But imho an example is more effective if it's simple.

I gave $60 as an example, I don't know the standard price for AAA games in North America and Europe, since I don't live in neither (all I know is that they're relatively cheap)

I'll try again: Let's say hypothetically Epic, EA, Ubisoft, Activision, Bethesda, Rockstar, Microsoft and Satan wants to make some kind of "informal cartel" with the purpose of undermining the monopoly of Steam, by selling their games at lower price in their stores and more expensive (on purpose) at Steam.

If they want to do something similar to this, they can't because hypothetically Valve has a clause in the contract preventing their prices to be higher than those other stores.

Of course you can ask "but if they simply stop to sell their games at steam, wouldn't be easier?"

the funny thing about the consumers, is that if you simply remove the games from steam, they'll complain about not been available there and a lot of them probably wouldn't buy anyway in protest (depending of the game of course).

But if they're available at steam (being more expensive) and cheaper in other stores, a lot of people would prefer the other stores (depending of the difference)

At long term, this could make an impression that steam is "the most expensive store" resulting in a considerable lost of steam only costumers and fragmentation of available games through stores

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Quoting: kuhpunktYou don't even know if Valve is actually doing this.

You don't know either, I'm only saying what I think about this case, based on
hypothesis that such a clause exists

Quoting: BielFPsPersonally I think

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Quoting: MalIf anything they will increase it where they want to discourage the sells.

That was my point with my post (I don't know if it was clear)

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Personally I think Valve does this to prevent companies to sabotage steam by selling their games at higher price on purpose.

Imagine for ExamPle If a Competitor make a shady contract with the biggest dev companies, and the next hyped game would cost $40,00 in others stores and $65,00 on steam, where do you think most of the sales would happen?

If 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

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Quoting: MalBut of course not before I sue myself for monopolizing the space of this post.

Tell Sweeney this space also belongs to steam, and he'll help you with the proce$$

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Always nice to see more DE Prioritizing wayland, and now I heard wlroots will start to make a compositor entirely based on Wayland + Vulkan, which I hope will be the standard in some years.

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I just hope it isn't another VR only title, because while it's can be awesome if done right, it still a very exclusive gimmick.

I wonder how ironic would be another Left 4 Dead game, in response of the new game from the original creators of the franchise.

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Judging by the prints of games made with this engine, I think is not something that Godot can't already handle as a replacement, which may justify why the price was so "cheap" in this case.

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