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$843 million lawsuit against Valve already has its own website: "The Steam Claim" accuses the biggest store in PC gaming of "overcharging" players (www.gamesradar.com)
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[–] hark@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Momentum. Steam was among the first on the scene and provided the best experience. Thankfully Steam has kept the momentum going instead of enshittification (thanks to being a privately held company), but almost a third of the price of the game is still ridiculous if you consider the effort that goes into making a game vs maintaining a mature platform.

[–] Kedly@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

Its not momentum, its that the competition is garbage

[–] bitfucker@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago

I mean, did the competitor even make an announcement to have at least feature parity with steam? Last time I heard, GOG doesn't have regional pricing, Epic is not supporting linux just because, and EA/Ubisoft is just a glorified ad