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The Judge Dismissed Valve's Defence, Now Steam Is Different. [Valve's can't tell you that you can't class action them] (invidious.privacyredirect.com)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

Steam subscriber agreement removed a clause that forces individual arbitration instead of court.

Before this you couldn't sue and this couldn't do a class action, but law firms decided to just file thousands of arbitration clauses at once which cost like $1500 each to valve no matter who wins.

Valve then decided to change the SSA (whilst trying to retroactively kill outstanding arbitration cases with another clause) to save them money.

If you're in the EU, UK, AUS, or a bunch of other countries this never applied to you and you could take valve to court in your own country.