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Well, I’ll be damned. They finally won one it sounds like.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Steam has several competitors, they all just suck, most of all EGS.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Google made the same argument in this case, but Epic responded by saying that impairing the competition is sufficient to describe the behavior as unlawful. Like Google, Valve control the vast majority of the market, charge a fee that is way above the cost of service, and have rules that make the competitors less appealing. Like this one:

In response to one inquiry from a game publisher, in another example, Valve explained: “We basically see any selling of the game on PC, Steam key or not, as a part of the same shared PC market- so even if you weren’t using Steam keys, we’d just choose to stop selling a game if it was always running discounts of 75% off on one store but 50% off on ours. . . .”

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Google made the same argument in this case but Epic responded by saying that impairing the competition is sufficient to describe the behavior as unlawful.

But Valve doesnt do anything to impair competition. Google owns and controls the operating system, require their store to be installed, and pay off other companies to be the default. Valve doesn't do anything like that.

In fact Valve is pretty much the only company trying to promote a FOSS OS that no one controls.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

What? Oh FFS. Context. Yes, Play Store has competitors, so yes absolutely a lot.