Is Valve an anti-consumer monopoly?
Is Valve an anti-consumer monopoly?
Ian Rodriguez
Owen Ross
Timmy-boy just can't let it go huh.
Logan Gonzalez
Yes.
Gabriel Ward
>artificially high
There's games that go down to 90% off. Literally right now.
>monopoly
Literally more competition right now than ever. You can't sue someone for having a successful business model.
Gabriel Moore
>Vavle is a monopoly!
>well timmy, what about Microsoft and Disney
>sh-shut up!
Isaiah Rogers
this fag is just butthurt that no one bought his shitty furry game
Brayden Adams
Isn't it 30%? The same as every brick and mortar store and digital front save for one or two?
Owen Myers
No, Gabe, it's not artificially high because games don't go on sales. It's artificially high because Valve makes developers sign contracts that disallow selling those games for lower than on Steam.
Isaac Brown
epic and microshit store are 15%, not sure about gog
Michael Cook
Kayden Scott
Yes and that's a good thing. No I will not elaborate. Get fucked, chink.
Hudson Martin
Epic is so shit that Steam is actually more consumer friendly even if it is the dominant player.
Dylan Morgan
is this from the assmad furfag developer again lol
Dylan Jenkins
Developers are not consumers. If they want a better deal they should push Epic to make their store not shit so there is actual competition.
William Reed
>wolffire games
Did they finally release that rabbit game after a decade of nothing but concept videos?
Michael Collins
no but epic games certainly is trying really hard to build one.
I wonder if one day they'll be sued for it. It can't be fully legal to hoard exclusivity by artifical means.
Levi Baker
yeah lol
Nolan Reyes
If I'm not mistaken the agreement is that you have to offer people on steam a similar discount within a 1 month or something like that.
I'd be upset if I for example bought a game on steam and then a DLC comes out that's 20€ for example while another store gets it that DLC for 10€. Valve doesn't stop you from discounting games, they just as that you give your customers on steam a similar deal.
Samuel Jenkins
And Valve is actively stifling competition with said contracts. I could sell my game on Steam for $60 and Epic for $50, taking the same revenue, but noooo someone has to be a dick about it. Pricing cheaper is an aspect of competition, and Valve is anti-competition.
Cry about it to Sony.
Carson Reed
>Anti-consumer
Valve has done nothing that has been deemed as such under federal law.
>Monopoly
Do you even know what monopoly means? Beyond the board game, I mean.
No.
Adam Nelson
don't even own a console, I can just pirate whatever your chinks overlords try to hoard, retard.
I know for certain you can't do this shit with essential products like toilet paper, food or so on. Games are quickly becoming more mainstream and I won't be surprised if the law were to change. Probably not, but it'd be hilarious to see epic games get a lawsuit for attempting to force a monopoly upon themselves.
Samuel Perez
just sell the game on your own website then
Jordan Torres
Yes. It was shit.
Aaron Parker
I like to present the court Valve's illegal actions in AU for breaking the law on refunds and EU anti-geo laws. Valve company is a international company that breaks laws.
Carter Wilson
Those are fixed now.
Tyler Lopez
>West Taiwan mainlander attempts to form coherent English sentences
Caleb Cooper
>May 11
Cooper Phillips
Australian's deserve to get ripped off.
Andrew Parker
>strawman
>whataboutism
Yeah, sounds about retarded.