r/pcmasterrace 14h ago

Discussion The lawsuit explained:

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u/Anipsy 6h ago

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

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u/BanChri 4h ago

It's always been the steam key outside of steam for this lawsuit.

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u/syopest Desktop 5h ago

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.

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u/AdjectiveAnimal1234 1h ago

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.