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Dusk: Unpopular opinion: I'd rather pay Valve 30% and put up with their de facto monopoly than help Epic work towards their own (very obviously desired) monopoly (twitter.com)
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[–] golli@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

One aspect through which one could argue that they might stifle competition is their price parity rule, for which it seems they are being sued. See here (not sure if there is any new development.

Hard to compete with steam if you cant at least do it through lower pricing. Although this article suggests that at least for epic exclusives publisher seem to prefer to just pocket the difference, rather than pass on those savings.

[–] Zorque@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't that just saying you can't sell access to a game on steam (through a steam key) for a lower price than what's on Steam? It's not like they can't just offer a lower price... just that they can't offer it for a lower price bundled with Steam access.

So they can offer a lower price, just not as a third party through Steam itself.

[–] Lojcs@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If that's the case, why do people use sites like humble bundle when they could individually buy the games from steam?

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Humble Bundle has a special relationship with Valve iirc, because of the charity work they do.

[–] NightOwl@lemmy.one 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doesn't explain all the other games sold for cheaper than steam when you take a look at isthereanydeals. Or the bundles fanatical offers with no charity involved.

[–] Zorque@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago

Could be secondhand key resellers who have no deals with Steam regarding sales.