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
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Newly uncovered evidence in an ongoing antitrust lawsuit has claimed Valve works aggressively behind the scenes to maintain its position.
  • Goodeye8@piefed.social
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    2 days ago

    if you can’t see how hurting valve is a direct benefit to epic or ubi we’re wasting my time

    irrelevant point? lol that’s not at all how business works

    Did you even read what I said? Valve losing it’s gambling money is going to have no impact on their market share in the PC storefront market space because Valve is already making boatloads of money even without the gambling money. Valve doesn’t need to do anything to make up for the loss because they don’t need to be greedy. They can eat “the loss” and continue business as usual which means there is no direct benefit for any competing storefront. If anything it might end up being a net negative because (while it probably won’t directly impact Epic or Ubisoft) some big studios still use lootboxes and this ruling would further push getting them banned. There’s an indirect benefit to Epic of Ubisoft in the form of Valve making less money but when you make insane amounts of money making slightly less insane amounts of money isn’t anything Epic of Ubisoft will feel. So yeah, I’d like to see you explain how the gambling lawsuit would directly benefit Epic of Ubisoft.

    if she actually gave a damn about gambling we’d be seeing her go after sports betting first by sheer volume

    So she shouldn’t go after Valve where there’s a legitimate case to be made? Because she should be going after some other nondescript entity that she may not even have a case against? Yeah, makes total sense.

    if you think morality is involved in the american legal system you live a charmed life

    So according to you SKG movement isn’t driven by the moral point that we should own the things we buy? So who is funding that initiative? Who gains to benefit from it? Come on, give me the juice. Let me suckle on that conspiracy teat. It’s all conspiracies, no good guys ever exists. Ross Scott is a paid actor.