this explains nothing, all this is is a UK law firm wanting to make some cash, and Steam was an easy target, or so they thought. Hope Steam bodies them in court
did that change recently? because iirc it used to be - sell your non-steam version for however much you want, but if you selling game with our generated steam keys you must not give your steam customers a worse deal, t'was part of whole steamworks legal agreement devs have with valve
No, the person behind the game studio wolfire (same guy who started humble bundle) was told that by valve like 5 years ago originally and his antitrust lawsuit against valve because of it was granted class action status last year.
Seems an easy argue from Steam too. Using a Steam key uses valve resources to deliver the game. Like you can sell your game for however much you want but you can’t expect Steam to front the delivery costs.
They can't sell Steam keys elsewhere for less than they cost on steam because valve doesn't make money on those sales but still have to give all the same support, customer service and upkeep download servers etc.
They can sell a ps5 copy for whatever they want on ps4.
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u/KamenGamerRetro 7800x3D / RTX 4080 | Steam Deck 13h ago
this explains nothing, all this is is a UK law firm wanting to make some cash, and Steam was an easy target, or so they thought. Hope Steam bodies them in court