Valve antitrust lawsuit reportedly reveals lengths Steam owner is willing to go to prevent cheaper prices elsewhere - and even the major publishers aren't safe
www.eurogamer.net
Newly uncovered evidence in an ongoing antitrust lawsuit has claimed Valve works aggressively behind the scenes to maintain its position.
    • Amnesigenic@lemmy.mlEnglish
      41·
      4 months ago

      Materially & historically speaking it absolutely is too much to ask, sooner or later someone inevitably gains enough wealth to rig the game, the only way anyone in history has ever managed to get anything resembling good faith out of “marketplaces” has been at gunpoint

    • vagrancyand@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      35·
      4 months ago

      There is nothing illegal being done by steam kiddo. And ‘good faith’ is defending themselves against sabotage, which is what ubisoft is suing for the ability to do here.

        • vagrancyand@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          25·
          4 months ago

          That’s for the courts to decide, “kiddo”.

          They did in the 1980s with walmart, kiddo.

          Nice exercise of brand loyalty, but irrelevant in this scenario.

          Incorrect, this is an ‘exercise’ of explaining a very basic fact of capitalism that has been happening longer than the word ‘capitalism’ has existed. This policy is the default for all stores on Earth.