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New Steam Agreement gets rid of forced arbitration and waivers for class action lawsuits (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by CleoTheWizard to c/[email protected]

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Noticed this update got pushed just now.

Edit: Seems they’re doing this to prevent costs from arbitration. Read comment below.

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 2 months ago (31 children)

It's a little hard to square "steam is over charging for games" with "look at all these games I bought for 80% off ($5) off", but I guess there's more to it.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (9 children)

After a short read, the case is specifically "Steam is prohibiting developers from selling their games to other platforms, at a price lower than that of steam, and then pockets the 30% platform cost, due to effective monopoly power".

Which, if true, is super bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 months ago (8 children)

It's false if I remember correctly. Steam prohibits you from selling steam keys outside the store for less than the price on steam. They don't forbid you from selling cheaper elsewhere

[–] cybersandwich 38 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And that seems entirely reasonable to me. Unless I am missing something

[+] FlowVoid -16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Why is that reasonable? Storefronts don't get free keys from Steam, they have to buy them. After they pay Steam, they should be allowed to sell them at any price they want.

Imagine if Ford said you couldn't sell your car for less than what Ford dealers charge for used cars.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I am almost certain that steam keys are actually free to developers, which is the whole reason for the policy.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Exactly! Pirate Software talked about this a while back. Steam doesn't want you cutting them out, and then them still being responsible for the bandwidth to download and host your game.

[–] woelkchen 1 points 2 months ago

I am almost certain that steam keys are actually free to developers, which is the whole reason for the policy.

Yes, they are. That's what many of the Kinguin etc. keys are. People/bots pretend to be game reviewers/streamers and ask for free keys. I have a "Game Press" license for a game because back then I didn't know of that method. I was under the impression those were keys sold by the developer in foreign markets for adjusted prices. Now I know better.