Gamers for years have complained about Valve's high commission rates, and now someone has decided to do something about it
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Okay. So how is Steam causing Nintendo to release their games at 80 dollars or rockstar threatening to sell the next GTA at 100 dollars due to Steam’s undue market dominance?

Also game developers have the option of using other platforms like epic, humble, itch, or using mostly DRM free GoG, my personal favorite.

As for the whole Steam preventing developers from selling elsewhere, I’d actually be interested in seeing their proof on this because developers have their games multiple storefronts at launch all the time. And kind of hypocritical to not sue Epic to for their exclusivity deals they make with publishers, literally preventing them from selling on another storefront.

Seems like a bullshit grifting lawsuit to me but hell I’m open to seeing what their actual evidence is.

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As for the whole Steam preventing developers from selling elsewhere, I’d actually be interested in seeing their proof on this because developers have their

Just confirmed with an indie dev that I know (I have 2 more I could ask as well), only restriction he has is “Sell games at same list price on all platforms” nothing about “on sale” prices just list price

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